Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager
Randomly g-p-m will start emiting brightness-up and brightness-down
keypress events multiple times per second, making the screen rapidly
flicker. The computer starts responding slowly, although this could just
be because of the large number of events being generated by g-p-m. While
this is happening, changing the brightness manually using shortcut keys
works, but g-p-m continues to change the brightness. The only way to
stop this is to manually killall gnome-power-manager
Also, I'm unable to login to a virtual terminal during this time as the
password prompt fills up with @ symbols, which is the symbol that is
output when my brightness -up and -down shortcuts are activated. It's as
though the key is stuck down (dw, I checked and its not).
Attached is the output from g-p-m --verbose. I did not change the
brightness while it was logging.
This is on an MSI Wind U100 netbook. This did not happen using any
previous versions of Ubuntu
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue May 26 17:37:41 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.26.1-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-5.6-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-5-generic i686
** Affects: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug gpm i386
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gnome-power-manager emits brightness-up and -down keypresses
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/380510
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