Great news!!! Thank's for all your work Kamal! 2011/8/17 Kamal Mostafa <ka...@canonical.com>
> I'm very pleased to announce that the last of Matthew Garrett's > backlight patches has been merged into the upstream Linux tree[1] and > the Ubuntu Oneiric kernel tree. It should appear in the next official > Oneiric kernel release (3.0.0-9.12). As noted previously, some Oneiric > systems will likely still need to boot with "acpi_backlight=vendor", and > pending resolution of bug 827517 all Oneiric systems will still need to > use the gnome-settings-daemon package supplied by my backlight PPA[2]. > Further small refinements (fixing the popup display behavior) are likely > in the near future. > > I will be looking into the plausibility of merging the patch set into > the official Ubuntu kernels for Natty and Maverick next, and will > continue to support those releases via my PPA in the meantime. > > [1] > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=aaa6fd2a004147bf32fce05720938236de3361d9 > [2] > https://launchpad.net/~kamalmostafa/+archive/linux-kamal-mjgbacklight<https://launchpad.net/%7Ekamalmostafa/+archive/linux-kamal-mjgbacklight> > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/568611 > > Title: > Screen brightness control fails on Dell Studio 1558 > > Status in NULL Project: > Invalid > Status in “alsa-driver” package in Ubuntu: > Invalid > Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: > Fix Committed > > Bug description: > Attempts (on a current Lucid beta) to control the screen brightness on > my Dell Studio 1558 fail with the following errors reported in dmesg: > > [ 1162.236365] ACPI: Failed to switch the brightness > [ 1162.379144] ACPI: Failed to switch the brightness > [ 1162.538226] ACPI: Failed to switch the brightness > [ 1162.667358] ACPI: Failed to switch the brightness > [ 1162.784171] ACPI: Failed to switch the brightness > > This is true both for the keyboard's brightness controls (Fn-F4, > Fn-F5) and for a gnome-brightness-applet on the panel. > > Output of acpidump, dmesg and lspci is attached. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/null/+bug/568611/+subscriptions > -- Luciano Dato -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/568611 Title: Screen brightness control fails on Dell Studio 1558 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/null/+bug/568611/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs