From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: Maximilian Engelhardt <maxi@daemonizer.de>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [regression] display dimming is slow and laggy
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:19:03 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <485702F7.6060704@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.bYtHs6zUqCWUnOriVTRy2wrCy7s@ifi.uio.no>
Maximilian Engelhardt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using kernel 2.6.26-rc6 at the moment and with it dimming the display is
> slow and laggy. Using kernel 2.6.25 doesn't show this problem.
>
> Here is a more detailed explanation:
>
> I'm dimming my display with the appropriate keys on my laptop (Fn +
> right/left). Till kernel 2.6.25 this has worked without any problems. Now I'm
> using 2.6.26-rc6 and using the keys the display is dimming much slower and
> also laggy. By laggy I mean if I hit the keys for increasing/decreasing
> brightness it starts dimming and when I release the keys after some time it
> still continues dimming for some steps.
>
> My laptop is a Acer Travelmate 661lci and has an Intel 855 chipset.
>
> I'll attach my dmesg output, please tell me if you need any further
> information.
Think you forgot the dmesg. Are you seeing a "ACPI: EC: GPE storm
detected, disabling EC GPE" message? See:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10724
This seems to affect a lot of Acer laptops.
next parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-17 0:19 UTC|newest]
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2008-06-17 0:19 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2008-06-17 13:53 ` [regression] display dimming is slow and laggy Maximilian Engelhardt
2008-06-14 22:31 Maximilian Engelhardt
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