Bug 217048 - Asus ACPI: Error reading brightness
Summary: Asus ACPI: Error reading brightness
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 5
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Brian Brock
URL:
Whiteboard: bzcl34nup
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-11-23 13:14 UTC by Howard E Huckle
Modified: 2008-05-06 16:55 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-05-06 16:55:44 UTC
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Description Howard E Huckle 2006-11-23 13:14:21 UTC
Description of problem:

Error Message is "Asus ACPI: Error reading brightness


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Kernel 2.6.18-1.2239.fc5

How reproducible:

Every time on logon to KDE.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot up into KDE (rpm kde-base3.5.5-0.2.fc5)
2. log on any account
3. Switch to a konsole screen (e.g. control-alt-f1)
4. Continuus scrolling of above error message
5. Switch back to KDE (control-alt-f7)
6. Switch back a konsole screen (e.g. control-alt-f1)
7. Message has stopped scrolling

  
Actual results:

Scrolling error message on konsole screen

Expected results:

No error message

Additional info:

This occurs on dual-boot (Windows XP/Linux FC5) Sony Vaia portable VGN-A115B. In
addition, whilst message are scrolling on the konsole screen, on the KDE display
 screen a "brightness 7%" message block occassionally flashes up on the screen.
As its format seems to be different to KDE/Fedora etc, I assume it is coming
from the low level BIOS? Apparently this portable has a light sensor that is
uses to control the screen brightness under Windows and I assume it is something
to do with that. I've tried disabling automatic control of brightness whilst
booted to Windows then booting to Linux, but to no avail.

Comment 1 Howard E Huckle 2006-11-23 13:18:47 UTC
A workaround is to put ACPI=off a a parameter in the grub conf file, which stps
the message. However it, of course,  stops correct power down of portable.

Comment 2 Howard E Huckle 2006-11-23 16:48:34 UTC
A friend has sent me the following ubuntu link which appears to be the same problem.

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/17125

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 04:53:37 UTC
Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're
sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted
on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to
make sure no important bugs slip through the cracks.

If you're currently running a version of Fedora Core between 1 and 6,
please note that Fedora no longer maintains these releases. We strongly
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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-05-06 16:55:42 UTC
This bug is open for a Fedora version that is no longer maintained and
will not be fixed by Fedora. Therefore we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
Fedora please feel free to reopen thus bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.


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