Comment 0 for bug 226894

Binary package hint: hal

Was asked to make a new report when https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal/+bug/206921 was closed but my issue wasn't fixed.

From HAL debug output when pressing a brightness-up or -down button:

14:14:15.824 [D] hald_dbus.c:3153: udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_5ac_21b_noserial_if0_logicaldev_input

From gnome-power-manager --verbose --debug power:

[hal_device_condition_cb] gpm-button.c:391 (14:19:23): condition=ButtonPressed, details=brightness-up
[emit_button_pressed] gpm-button.c:335 (14:19:23): emitting button-pressed : brightness-up
[button_pressed_cb] gpm-manager.c:996 (14:19:23): Button press event type=brightness-up
[button_pressed_cb] gpm-srv-screensaver.c:167 (14:19:23): Button press event type=brightness-up
[button_pressed_cb] gpm-backlight.c:561 (14:19:23): Button press event type=brightness-up
[gpm_brightness_lcd_get_hw] gpm-brightness-lcd.c:108 (14:19:23): ERROR: Method "GetBrightness" with signature "" on interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel" doesn't exist

*** WARNING ***
[gpm_brightness_lcd_get_hw] gpm-brightness-lcd.c:113 (14:19:23): GetBrightness failed!
[gpm_brightness_lcd_set_hw] gpm-brightness-lcd.c:155 (14:19:23): Setting 11 of 228
[gpm_brightness_lcd_set_hw] gpm-brightness-lcd.c:165 (14:19:23): ERROR: Method "SetBrightness" with signature "i" on interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel" doesn't exist

*** WARNING ***
[gpm_brightness_lcd_set_hw] gpm-brightness-lcd.c:170 (14:19:23): SetBrightness failed!
[gpm_brightness_lcd_up] gpm-brightness-lcd.c:362 (14:19:23): emitting brightness-changed (0)
[brightness_changed_cb] gpm-backlight.c:736 (14:19:23): Need to display backlight feedback value 0
[gpm_feedback_display_value] gpm-feedback-widget.c:144 (14:19:23): Displaying 0.000000 on feedback widget
[gpm_refcount_add] gpm-refcount.c:100 (14:19:23): refcount now: 1
[gpm_refcount_add] gpm-refcount.c:101 (14:19:23): non zero, so sending REFCOUNT_ADDED
[brightness_changed_cb] gpm-backlight.c:740 (14:19:23): emitting brightness-changed : 0
[button_pressed_cb] gpm-srv-brightness-kbd.c:139 (14:19:23): Button press event type=brightness-up
[button_pressed_cb] gpm-info.c:698 (14:19:23): Button press event type=brightness-up
[gpm_refcount_auto_decrement] gpm-refcount.c:74 (14:19:25): zero, so sending REFCOUNT_ZERO
[gpm_feedback_close_window] gpm-feedback-widget.c:134 (14:19:25): Closing feedback widget

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon May 5 14:22:20 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal nvidia
Package: hal 0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu8
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: hal
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-17-generic x86_64