[Debian-eeepc-devel] New tests was: Weird behavior with display

[Ernesto Domato]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 05:52, Dick Middleton <dick at fouter.net> wrote:
> Ernesto Domato wrote:
>>
>> Well, I was being a little suspicious so I decided to reinstall the
>> machine but this time with Lenny instead of Sid and the system is
>> running without the display behavior.
>
> Intriguing.  I wonder if there's a connection:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/karmic_koala_frustration/
>
> Dick
>

Well, that article is very interesting indeed.

So, I ended upgrading to Squeeze and everything is working fine. I'm
not experimenting the weird behavior with the display so it begins to
assure me that the problem could come from the DeviceKit
implementation, exactly the devicekit-power package. In fact, the
devicekit-power package in Squeeze breaks the gnome-power-manager <
2.27.5 (Squeeze gnome-power-manager is 2.24.4-3), and the
gnome-power-manager for Sid (2.28.1-2) depends on, if you didn't guess
yet, devicekit-power >= 008.

My next move will be upgrade to Sid and try to see if my theory is
right (or at least part of it) by upgrading gnome-power-manager and
see if that provokes the behavior again.

What do you think?.

Thanks,
Ernesto.