Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2010-07-07 Thread 5euros
Guys, There are no other options. If you want to cure the problem then you will need to perform a flash upgrade of the BIOS on your MSI Wind. Believe me it is worth the (minimal) hassle. On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 15:02, kuciy 415...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: it exist on my VR420 too, hope

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2010-04-26 Thread Maarten Jongepier
tested and seems to work On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 16:52, Fruchtpfote matthiasgr...@web.de wrote: Has it anybody tested with Lucid Lynx and can tell if it works? -- brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/415023 You received this bug notification because you are

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2010-03-21 Thread Jorge Juan
Read de old posts: not all the upgrade methods work. One of the method seems to upgrade (new version is reported at boot) but the firmware is not (fully?) upgraded. The other method works. I cannot remember the details. You will have to read the old posts. Regards. 2010/3/20 maxadamo

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2010-02-27 Thread xcorex
U're wrong. The easiest is to adjust the brightness of gnome-power-preference to 0%. By the way, bios update solves the problem. On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:32 PM, maxadamo maxad...@gmail.com wrote: Please, refrain putting comments and comments. It's really confusing now. This is not yet

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2010-02-09 Thread Martin Pitt
Stephen Warren [2010-02-09 16:06 -]: Martin, that explanation makes sense, but can you explain why upgrading the BIOS to 10G is also solving the problem for many people? Do you know what the BIOS changed w.r.t. brightness handling? Not really, I'm afraid. It's well possible that the

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2010-02-09 Thread intruder
I've flashed the bios and now flickering effect has gone... but usb port has gone too I'm seriously thinking of downgrade to 9.04 or migrate to moblin. 2010/2/9 Stephen Warren swar...@wwwdotorg.org Martin, that explanation makes sense, but can you explain why upgrading the BIOS to 10G is

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2010-01-24 Thread robertzacc...@gmail.com
Does this work with xfce? Adam Wallner wrote: Hi, I made a package for MSI WIND U100, which solves the brightness flickering. I've only modified the gpm-brightness.c. You can find the package here: http://linux.bitbaro.hu/en/2010/01/22/msi-wind-u100-and-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala/ Maybe

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2010-01-16 Thread Jojo
delete ucvideo from blacklist -- pozdrawiam Paweł Kuźniar 2010/1/16 Michael Fox m...@trentu.ca: Bios update worked for me and I have 8 levels of brightness with the F-keys.  Webcam still doesn't work, but could that be because I have blacklisted ucvideo?  I thought the webcam

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2010-01-16 Thread Jojo
Werid! On my friend's MSI WIND U100 webcam is working perfectly after lates updates and removing ucv from blacklist. I use 32bit 9.10 with netbook remix packages installed not 9.10UNR. -- pozdrawiam Paweł Kuźniar 2010/1/16 Michael Fox m...@trentu.ca: When I deleted ucvideo from

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2010-01-16 Thread Alessio Treglia
Works fine on my MSI U-90 with karmic after installing all latest updates. -- Alessio Treglia quadris...@ubuntu.com Ubuntu MOTU Developer | Homepage: http://www.alessiotreglia.com 0FEC 59A5 E18E E04F 6D40 593B 45D4 8C7C DCFC 3FD0 -- brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2010-01-14 Thread Jojo
As it was proved the buggy BIOS is an issue. Try tu upgrade to 10G Complete and working solution is presented in comment 265 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal-info/+bug/415023/comments/265 -- pozdrawiam Paweł Kuźniar 2010/1/14 Meki gnick...@gmail.com: Have you even

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2010-01-11 Thread xcorex
The easiest way is to create a freedos USB disk with Unetbootin. Two clicks and done. It solved the flickering and the scalling problem of my N280 Wind U123. Unfortunable, it is now only tree levels from 1Ghz to 1.67 and not four from 800 to 1.67Ghz. Regards, Rodrigo Borges On Mon, Jan 11, 2010

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2010-01-11 Thread Jojo
Upgrade your BIOS, which is buggy. Complete and working solution is presented in comment 265 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal-info/+bug/415023/comments/265 -- pozdrawiam Paweł Kuźniar 2010/1/11 issasaur killpe...@gmail.com: Yesterday I installed the netbook remix

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2010-01-10 Thread ChaZcaTriX
Try 'sudo dpkg-reconfugure udev' and reboot; that made webcam of my U90 work 2010/1/10 Christian A. Reiter chris.rei...@gmx.at: I just did the update per flash.bat now. The flickering is gone definitely on my U100, a fresh Ubuntu with all updates until today. I have just 5 steps of

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2010-01-10 Thread Jojo
I can confirm that flashing BIOS with dos method works. Flashing is gone. Previous attempts to flash with bios recovery option failed. Probably MSI has dual BIOS. -- pozdrawiam Paweł Kuźniar 2010/1/10 ChaZcaTriX chazcat...@gmail.com: Try 'sudo dpkg-reconfugure udev' and reboot;

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2010-01-08 Thread robertzacc...@gmail.com
The easiest fix I found is to just remove power manager. sudo apt-get remove-xfce4-power-manager is what I did. Worked fine. You won't have a power manager, but do you really need it? I keep mine plugged in almost all the time, so its not an issue for me. On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:43 AM,

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2010-01-08 Thread intruder
upgrading bios is very dangerous. maybe i'll try, sooner or later :) If I try, I'll tell you how it works. 2010/1/8 robertzacc...@gmail.com robertzacc...@gmail.com The easiest fix I found is to just remove power manager. sudo apt-get remove-xfce4-power-manager is what I did. Worked fine.

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2010-01-07 Thread intruder
did anyone try with a wind U90 update bios??? 2010/1/7 Ciccio franap...@gmail.com Oh, one point forgot: - 5 brightness levels from the Fn keys, 9 from the gnome app. I can clearly see that every time I hit the Fn keys, the brightness is changed twice. It seems we just got to this bug:

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2010-01-06 Thread Jojo
I've just upgraded to 1.0G on U100. Still have problem with flickering. 2010/1/6 matze matthias.rue...@gmail.com: I can confirm, with BIOS 10G the flickering has gone and I am not able to provoke it again. With the brightness-applet there are 9 levels of brightness available. MSI Wind U100

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2009-12-12 Thread vroberts
How do I add this to my software sources? Vic Roberts Sylvain Defresne wrote: Patches updated to use quilt, and uploaded to my ppa ... https://launchpad.net/~sdefresne/+archive/ppa -- brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/415023 You received this bug

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2009-12-12 Thread vroberts
Well, I finally read the instructions, and it worked perfectly!! Thanks Sylvian. Vic Roberts vroberts wrote: How do I add this to my software sources? Vic Roberts Sylvain Defresne wrote: Patches updated to use quilt, and uploaded to my ppa ...

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2009-12-11 Thread David Planella
Using the latest PPA works for me on an MSI with board_name U90/U100. There are a couple of things I've noticed: * On logging into the session, a brightness change notification is shown for about a second, which has no effect. This is just a very minor cosmetic issue.

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2009-12-11 Thread robertzacc...@gmail.com
If you don't need a power manager, simply removing gnome-power-manager is one way to fix it. Another way for those that need a power manager is remove gnome-power-manager and replace it with KDE's guidance-power-manager, although suspend won't work from my experience. On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:40

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2009-12-10 Thread David Planella
El dj 10 de 12 de 2009 a les 21:34 +, en/na knuutsen va escriure: PS: I'm not so firm in compiling. In #205 is that a typical way of compiling single debs? Where can i learn more about this? Thank you in advance You can learn more about packaging here -

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2009-12-06 Thread xcorex
If you are the only user, is it too dificult to disable at system, preferences, gnome-session-properties? Isn't xfce4-power-manager better? On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Patrice Vetsel ubu...@kagou.fr wrote: To disable the autostart feature (autostart of gnome-power-manager) please use the

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2009-12-02 Thread ChaZcaTriX
Found another way to stop flickering, much saner than right mouse hold - and unlike it working in KDE You need to put a high load on the CPU - so just switch the desktop with Compiz - and flickering stops -- brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/415023 You

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2009-11-27 Thread robertzacc...@gmail.com
Didn't work for me. I just removed power manager and that worked fine. Anyone know how to workaround the bug of usb devices not being detected? On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Beni Cherniavsky c...@users.sf.net wrote: Another workaround (worked for me on MSI Wind): execute: xrandr --set

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2009-11-18 Thread robertzacc...@gmail.com
Removing power management works. Its not really necessary for me to have but is for some. For me its a workaround at least til its fixed or til the next release. On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 7:49 PM, bostongeek24 markdy...@gmail.com wrote: it says that this has been fixed what is the solution? i am

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2009-11-09 Thread N.Buechner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Not fixed http://kernel.ubuntu.com/%7Ekernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.32-rc6/linux-image-2.6.32-020632rc6-generic_2.6.32-020632rc6_i386.deb Kubuntu Karmic, MSI WIND U120 sovaby wrote: the problem is solved with kernel 2.6.32-020632rc6-generic. --

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2009-11-09 Thread robertzacc...@gmail.com
Yeah that is true, but at least deleting powr management works. In another release or 2 i may even consider switching to Debian or Linpus or an Ubuntu based distro for netbooks perhaps. On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:28 PM, german154 gvult...@gmail.com wrote: I can't believe it was released with such

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2009-11-08 Thread intruder
I upgraded msi wind u-90 bios to 1.0E version and my screen still blinking 2009/11/8 Jonathan asianguyjt...@gmail.com For MSI Wind U123 users, the 1.0D BIOS update seems to stop the change in brightness. You're able to change it via the hot key now -- brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2009-11-04 Thread robertzacc...@gmail.com
I figured out a solution that works completely, at least till an update comes along anyway. Go to applicationssettingsXfce 4 Settings ManagerPower Management and all settings for monitor and brightness to never. So far this has worked, as long as I don't try to adjust the brightness because

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2009-10-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:00:21AM -, Guido Berhoerster wrote: Disabling KMS just makes the problem appear less often. This is ultimately a bug in the MSI BIOS, if it chooses to handle the brightness keys in hardware it shouldn't emit keypress events. The power managers such as g-p-m,

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2009-10-29 Thread Martin Pitt
yze [2009-10-29 12:06 -]: @steve echo 4 /proc/acpi/video/IGD/DOS bash: /proc/acpi/video/IGD/DOS: Permission denied That needs superuser privileges. Please try echo 4 | sudo tee /proc/acpi/video/IGD/DOS If that is too magical for you, you can also do $ sudo -i # echo 4

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2009-10-29 Thread Martin Pitt
yze [2009-10-29 13:11 -]: @Martin, Thanks for that tip... The command ran with no issue, but had no effect on the blinking - did I need to reboot after that? No, this command won't survive a reboot, it just changes a parameter in the running kernel. -- brightness is broken on MSI WIND

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2009-10-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:31:34PM -, yze wrote: How do I reverse that echo 4 command, as my suspend has stopped working, and the only things I have done are the echo command and the nomodeset on grub. I have tried removing nomodeset in grub, but the suspend is still not working. I

Re: [Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

2009-10-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:04:02PM -, xcorex wrote: If you set a nomodeset parameter at boot you can hide the problem, but cant lift. What do you mean, lift? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and