Description of problem: When I change the screen brightness of my laptop (Dell Inspiron E1505), everything freezes for about a second. This behavior disappears immediately if I disable haldaemon service - and reappears when I start the service. I've only recently started experiencing this problem. Possibly related to the fact that my battery has died - but I've experienced the same behavior while the battery is removed entirely. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): hal package version 0.5.10-1.fc8 How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot to GUI interface (I use KDE) 2. Adjust the screen brightness (higher or lower) - note that the bug does not appear if maximum or minimum has been reached.
After replacing the battery, the problem still remains. I've also tried using radeonhd drivers instead of fglrx, and the problem remained. I've also noticed that if I'm not logged in (kdm login screen is showing), or if I quit kpowersave applet, the problem goes away. I've checked setting in kpowersave - it has some brightness control options, but they're disabled.
The problem is most likely in kpowersave, not haldaemon
appears fixed after a yum update today
Sorry to say this but after today's yum update, it's reacting the same way again.
Created attachment 299565 [details] yum.log excerpt (Mar 28th)
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