On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Paul Mullen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 07:37:32AM -0700, Denis Heidtmann wrote: >> Thanks for looking into this. But there are other symptoms which >> googling tells me are associated with the error(s): Some of the >> function controls no longer work, specifically the screen brightness. >> This is true for my machine. > > asus_wmi is a kernel module that gives the operating system the > ability to control various proprietary hardware bits on the netbook > (radios, backlight, etc.). > > It appears that something has gone wrong with the relationship between > asus_wmi and your netbook. Did you recently upgrade the kernel? I > recall backlight issues with the 3.13 kernel that eventually went away > with a later release. Does Ubuntu offer a newer kernel for the 12.04 > release? > > > -- > Paul Mullen
Thanks for the explanation of the function that asus_wmi performs. This matches with what I determined from Googling, but is in English that I can understand. The reason I stated the kernel version was that it was mentioned in the comments I read about the issue. I have two Ubuntu 12.04 systems: a desktop and the netbook(notebook?) The desktop has a kernel 3.2.0-36-generic; the netbook has 3.13.0-36-generic. Strange, since I update them both regularly. I have no idea why Ubuntu would use a significantly older kernel for the netbook. And I do not know how I might get a newer version. -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
