** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 224636
Asus brightness keys only toggle between the lowest two levels
** Package changed: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) = ubuntu
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display brightness asus; function keys not working
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/368506
You received this bug
The workaround mentioned in Divan's comment is:
A workaround is unloading/reloading the video kernel module, but
after this the brightness-changing-OSD doesn't appear anymore and I
guess there may be other issues, at least it's not the elegant way ;)
For developer reference, see bug #369777
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Since reloading the kernel video module fixed this bug, I've added
linux (Ubuntu) to this bug report. Which video card and driver are you
using? Your video card info can be found in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
I'm unfamiliar with kernel level debugging/fixing, so if a member of the
kernel team can take a
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 224636 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/224636
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a
duplicate of bug 224636, so it is being marked as such. Please look
This happens on my Asus x5dij, too.
However, i think the issue with the brightness-keys has nothing to do with
gnome-power-manager, since I incidentally discovered a workaround (see
#399675).
Also, setting the brightness by writing to
/sys/devices/virtual/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness
On karmic alpha 2 the flickering is the same. The brightness keys are reacting
but both keys randomly do nothing (but flickering) or switch with the following
behaviour:
Using the brightness up key I randomly get the darkest or the
almost-brightest setting.
With the brightness down key I get
Thanks for testing. So there was no difference between Karmic and
Jaunty's performance? It's still best to do debugging in Karmic since
the developers would be able to get fixes into the development release.
There are some additional debugging steps we can do to identify this problem.
First,
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be
reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the
development release - Karmic Koala. It would help us greatly if you
could test with it so we can
