Hi Jeremy, I've installed the latest Mint9 32bit, and also ordered a new keyboard to be on the safe side, and brightness is working.
I did comment back requesting that we wait until I get the new keyboard - don't know if that got lost in the shuffle. Thanks for your investigation on this. Best regards, Timm On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:36, Jeremy Foshee <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Timmi, > > Please be sure to confirm this issue exists with the latest development > release of Ubuntu. ISO CD images are available from > http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ . If the issue remains, > please run the following command from a Terminal > (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and > attach updated debug information to this report. > > apport-collect -p linux 577514 > > Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be > great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. > Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've > tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. > This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag > located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the > 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results. > > Thanks in advance. > > [This is an automated message. Apologies if it has reached you > inappropriately; please just reply to this message indicating so.] > > > ** Tags added: needs-kernel-logs > > ** Tags added: needs-upstream-testing > > ** Tags added: kj-triage > > ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Incomplete > > -- > Fn keys brightness controls on laptop not working > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/577514 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in The Linux Mint Distribution: Triaged > Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete > > Bug description: > Mint9, x64, on a Toshiba with core2duo (intel t5200), centrino (intel > graphics, wifi, lan): > > I have a very standard and prevalent chipset (and graphics). > > The Fn keys are not detected on install, and don't work with ANY of the > utilities available in Synaptic. )Most importantly (to me) is brightness > control, as this laptop is now used more as a stationary machine, but to > others the other FN key functionality is probably quite important as well.) > > It was working at one point, in Mint 8. But then reinstalled Mint8 and it > no longer worked (some things were disabled in Mint8 in the end, and taken > out of hte repositories, while they were working on the next release Mint9 - > I can think of Skype and a couple of others, for example). So they probably > already know what that is, and it's probably easy to put that back in again. > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/577514/+subscribe > -- Fn keys brightness controls on laptop not working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/577514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
