Thanks! Great help! On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Jérémie Laval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Saïvann Carignan : right-click on gnome-power-manager icon in taskbar, > select Preferences. Go on the "On Sector" tab, normally there is a > slider widget to control the screen brightness. Then, freeze the > keyboard with the fn keys and it should come back to live after playing > with the aforementioned slider. > > -- > Losing keyboard and mouse control when changing screen brightness with fn + > arrow under intrepid > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/285323 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in Gnome Powermanager: Unknown > Status in Ubuntu Release Notes: New > Status in "acpid" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete > Status in "gnome-power-manager" source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed > Status in "xserver-xorg-input-evdev" source package in Ubuntu: Invalid > Status in acpid in Ubuntu Intrepid: Incomplete > Status in gnome-power-manager in Ubuntu Intrepid: Confirmed > Status in xserver-xorg-input-evdev in Ubuntu Intrepid: Invalid > > Bug description: > On my Dell inspiron 9300 laptop under intrepid (hardy did not have this > problem), when I type FN + Arrow keys to change the screen brightness, Most > of mouse and keyboard keys stop working. > > For an example : I can't type any text anywhere, ALT + F4 does not close any > window, mouse clicks "partially" opens the gnome-panel menus, isn't able to > close windows with the right-top x, but mouse click is still able to move a > window.. > > screencast : > http://upload.leservicetechnique.com/bugs/mouse_keyboard_acpid.ogv > > This bug is reproducible under both metacity and compiz, and not caused by a > BIOS password. > > A quick workaround to bring back things to normal is to switch to a VT and go > back to Xorg with CTRL + ALT + F6 and CTRL + ALT + F7 > > When changing screen brightness, I get this in Xorg.0.log : > > (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch > (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket) > (II) AIGLX: Resuming AIGLX clients after VT switch > (II) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: x-axis range 0 - 1023 > (II) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: y-axis range 0 - 767 > (--) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint touchpad found > (II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Device reopened after 10 attempts. > (**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 > (**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: EmulateWheelButton: 4, > EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200 > (II) PS/2 Mouse: Device reopened after 10 attempts. > (**) PS/2 Mouse: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 > (**) PS/2 Mouse: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, > EmulateWheelTimeout: 200 > (II) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Device reopened after 10 attempts. > (II) Video Bus: Device reopened after 10 attempts. >
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