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FS#19354 - [udev] MSI Wind brightness keys handled uncorrectly - update needed

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Paul Ezvan (paulez) - Tuesday, 04 May 2010, 13:13 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Friday, 25 June 2010, 09:52 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:

Pressing brightness keys on MSI Wind laptop generate a software event and a hardware event which generate again a software event, so it start an infinite loop.
Result : the screen backlight blink in Gnome when trying to change brightness level.
More info on : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal-info/+bug/415023

This udev commit solves the problem : http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=commit;h=d7e2d38c1f0ead2239808dd117577a99a3ad3cde.
So upgrading udev to the last version may solve the problem.

Additional info:
* package version :
udev 151-3
This task depends upon

Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Friday, 25 June 2010, 09:52 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed

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