Bug#706603: general: laptop freeze on adjusting brightness
retitle 706603 Inspiron N5010: freeze on adjusting brightness unless acpi_backlight=vendor found 706603 linux/3.2.41-2 tags 706603 = # hardware support severity 706603 important quit Holger Levsen wrote: You filed 706603 two days ago, with very little info (albeit providing more when asked) and today you filed #706737 which is really just a request for support - thus I'm closing this bug. Retitling to be more precise and reopening. Marwan, please open a new bug on bugzilla.kernel, product ACPI, component Power-Video, and let us know the bug number so we can track it. Be sure to include: * full dmesg output from booting with and without acpi_backlight=vendor, as an attachment * full acpidump output, as an attachment * full lspci -nnvvv output, as an attachment If you have a chance to try 3.8.y from experimental, that would be useful, too. We can coordinate further work on this upstream. Thanks, and hope that helps, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130504183957.GB25863@elie.Belkin
Bug#706603: general: laptop freeze on adjusting brightness
Hi Jonathan, On Samstag, 4. Mai 2013, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Retitling to be more precise and reopening. thanks for doing so! cheers, Holger, sometimes to roughly gate-keeping... signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#706603: general: laptop freeze on adjusting brightness
On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 11:39:58AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: retitle 706603 Inspiron N5010: freeze on adjusting brightness unless acpi_backlight=vendor found 706603 linux/3.2.41-2 tags 706603 = # hardware support severity 706603 important quit Holger Levsen wrote: You filed 706603 two days ago, with very little info (albeit providing more when asked) and today you filed #706737 which is really just a request for support - thus I'm closing this bug. Retitling to be more precise and reopening. Marwan, please open a new bug on bugzilla.kernel, product ACPI, component Power-Video, and let us know the bug number so we can track it. Be sure to include: * full dmesg output from booting with and without acpi_backlight=vendor, as an attachment * full acpidump output, as an attachment * full lspci -nnvvv output, as an attachment Done: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57571 If you have a chance to try 3.8.y from experimental, that would be useful, too. All right. I will test it ASAP. -- Marwan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130504201502.GA4106@host
Bug#706603: general: laptop freeze on adjusting brightness
forwarded 706603 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57571 quit Marwan Tanager wrote: Done: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57571 Perfect, thanks. Giri, please add yourself to the cc list on that bug if you have time to test patches people come up with (I can walk you through it). Regards, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130504202120.GB2420@elie.Belkin
Bug#706603: general: laptop freeze on adjusting brightness
On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 11:56:07AM +0200, Marwan Tanager wrote: On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 05:23:42AM -0400, giri wrote: Package: general Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? while adjusting screen brightness * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? used laptop dedicated buttons to adjust screen brightness * What was the outcome of this action? system freeze * What outcome did you expect instead? screen brightness to be adjusted without problems I had the same problem a while ago on a Dell Inspiron N5010, and I was able to work around it by using the following configuration in /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=acpi_backlight=vendor Forgot to mention that you must run update-grub after changing /etc/default/grub in order to generate /boot/grub/grub.cfg using the new configurations. Otherwise, the line above would have no effect, because grub would still read the old grub.cfg after reboot. -- Marwan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130503122026.GB11552@host
Bug#706603: general: laptop freeze on adjusting brightness
awesometested it after update-grub it works really well. :-) no more freezes thank u guys. keep up the good work. cheers!!! On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Marwan Tanager marwan.t...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 11:56:07AM +0200, Marwan Tanager wrote: On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 05:23:42AM -0400, giri wrote: Package: general Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? while adjusting screen brightness * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? used laptop dedicated buttons to adjust screen brightness * What was the outcome of this action? system freeze * What outcome did you expect instead? screen brightness to be adjusted without problems I had the same problem a while ago on a Dell Inspiron N5010, and I was able to work around it by using the following configuration in /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=acpi_backlight=vendor Forgot to mention that you must run update-grub after changing /etc/default/grub in order to generate /boot/grub/grub.cfg using the new configurations. Otherwise, the line above would have no effect, because grub would still read the old grub.cfg after reboot. -- Marwan
Re: Bug#706603: general: laptop freeze on adjusting brightness
tags 706603 + moreinfo reassign 706603 src:linux thanks Hi giri, we'll need more information on your machine: please send the output of dmesg lspci -nn lspci -v to this bug report. Also maybe mentioning the laptop name+model could help. On Donnerstag, 2. Mai 2013, giri wrote: Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? while adjusting screen brightness * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? used laptop dedicated buttons to adjust screen brightness * What was the outcome of this action? system freeze * What outcome did you expect instead? screen brightness to be adjusted without problems *** End of the template - remove these lines *** -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash cheers, Holger P.S.: there is a reportbug command to do this, but it's not mentioned on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernelReportingBugs signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
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Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: tags 706603 + moreinfo Bug #706603 [general] general: laptop freeze on adjusting brightness Added tag(s) moreinfo. reassign 706603 src:linux Bug #706603 [general] general: laptop freeze on adjusting brightness Bug reassigned from package 'general' to 'src:linux'. Ignoring request to alter found versions of bug #706603 to the same values previously set Ignoring request to alter fixed versions of bug #706603 to the same values previously set thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 706603: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=706603 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/handler.s.c.13674886641979.transcr...@bugs.debian.org
Bug#706603: general: laptop freeze on adjusting brightness
Hi Giri, please mail 706...@bugs.debian.org when replying to this bug. On Donnerstag, 2. Mai 2013, Giri wrote: I am attaching the files u have requested. thanks! Also I am making changes /etc/default/grub as mentioned above to see if it gets fixed. and? Whats the result? Also must say thank u so much for the prompt replies guys. :-) likewise thanks for your prompt feedback! cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
