Comment 128 for bug 333386
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| Stefan Bader (smb) wrote Re: [Bug 333386] Re: Acer: Cannot change brightness with 2.6.27-11+ kernel | #128 |
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Pablo wrote:
Sorry for getting back that late.
> Reading the dmesg log I founded this in line #34:
> [ 0.000000] Phoenix BIOS detected: BIOS may corrupt low RAM, working it
> around.
>
> Does it mean is there anything wrong with my laptop's BIOS or RAM?
Sort of. It is a common "problem" that some BIOS are using parts of
the lower RAM as storage and the kernel just marks a certain area of the
memory as not usable to work around this. So your RAM is ok, your BIOS
just happens to be one that does use a bit of the lower memory but you
should be alright with that.
> Have you done any progress on the brightness problem?
> I'm about installing Karmic beta to test it and will tell you what happens
I have not have time to specifically work on this. However, all the changes
went upstream and into Karmic. Actually a few more. So you should definitely
try Karmic. Also, as we move ahead, things that are not really critical will
not get fixed in Jaunty. Even Karmic will receive a little less care as the
main effort goes into making the next LTS.