Comment 21 for bug 261721

Following up on my comment: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/261721/comments/16

After upgrading my image to 2.6.27-7-generic I am no longer experiencing the lock-up issues. As I type at this moment I have gone through the whole brightness range (FnUp/Down) and am still able to type and use menus. I had to manually change my menu.lst to use 2.6.27-7 as the installer for 8.10 by default keeps the current GRUB configuration and I had not realized until I ran a uname -r and saw 2.6.24. Here's my output from apt-cache and uname -r.

apt-cache policy gnome-power-manager
gnome-power-manager:
Installed: 2.24.0-0ubuntu8
Candidate: 2.24.0-0ubuntu8
Version table:
 *** 2.24.0-0ubuntu8 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

apt-cache policy linux-image
linux-image:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2.6.27.7.11
Version table:
2.6.27.7.11 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages

uname -r
2.6.27-7-generic

I'm assuming that most people commenting to this bug have checked which image they are running, however, it's something that can be overlooked when freaking out about a finger-memory keystroke that render X useless.