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acpid package

  1. Bug #285323
  2. Comment #144

Comment 144 for bug 285323

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Wirawan Purwanto (wirawan0) wrote : Re: Losing keyboard and mouse control when changing screen brightness with fn + arrow under intrepid

Hi everybody,

There has been no further discussion from anyone for a little while; new posts seem to repeat the existing bug description. I am surprised that such a long bug report hasn't be acted upon promptly, although the fix is easy to make (albeit being a dirty workaround):

This dire situation we are having with Dell laptops can be easily fixed if the patch proposed in comment #142 is incorporated into the current file atkbd.c in the Linux kernel, by adding an additional record in the atkbd_dmi_quirk_table[] array using the second commonly-found DMI string match: "Dell Computer Corporation", in addition to the "Dell Inc." string. This is dirty indeed, as we have two records of similar things. But this would get rid of the problem for virtually all Dell users. Could one of the Ubuntu developers do this for us, please? The recent gnome power manager is not fixing the problem either.