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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

BakLAN, as per
http://www.dell.com/support/troubleshooting/us/en/19/Product/latitude-d830
an update is available for your BIOS (A17). If you update to this, does
it change anything?

If not, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the output of the following terminal command:
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date

Please note your current BIOS is already in the Bug Description, so
posting this on the old BIOS would not be helpful.

Thank you for your understanding.

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Title:
  [Dell Latitude D830] Fn+Left does not enable ambient light sensor

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  According to Dell Latitude D830 manual, <Fn> and left-arrow key should
  activate the ambient light sensor, which controls brightness of the
  display based on light level in the current environment. I've checked
  it in WinPE and in GRUB - it works well. But in user account in my
  Kubuntu 13.04 <Fn> and left-arrow key returns:

  (XEV output)

  KeyPress event, serial 40, synthetic NO, window 0x4000001,
  root 0x103, subw 0x0, time 4948865, (162,-13), root:(164,45),
  state 0x0, keycode 201 (keysym 0x1008ffb1, XF86TouchpadOff), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
  XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
  XFilterEvent returns: False

  So, as we see, this is mistake and it should not return any code
  because it processes through BIOS and must switch on/of ambient light
  sensor to operate correctly according to laptop manual.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Apr 23 15:19:14 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-02-28 (53 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=uk_UA.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: xorg
  Symptom: display
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-03-16 (38 days ago)
  --- 
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  AudioDevicesInUse:
   USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
   /dev/snd/controlC0:  oleg       2057 F.... pulseaudio
   /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p:   oleg       2057 F...m pulseaudio
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=b9380414-31cf-4dc1-b933-31abc843015d
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-02-28 (53 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
  MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude D830
  MarkForUpload: True
  Package: linux 3.8.0.19.35
  PackageArchitecture: amd64
  PccardctlIdent:
   Socket 0:
     no product info available
  PccardctlStatus:
   Socket 0:
     no card
  ProcFB: 0 nouveaufb
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.8.0-19-generic root=UUID=61a1e2a2-ab1a-47a0-bf86-5ef19ee2e901 ro rootflags=subvol=@ quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   linux-restricted-modules-3.8.0-19-generic N/A
   linux-backports-modules-3.8.0-19-generic  N/A
   linux-firmware                            1.106
  RfKill:
   0: phy0: Wireless LAN
   	Soft blocked: no
   	Hard blocked: no
  Tags:  raring
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-03-16 (38 days ago)
  UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
  dmi.bios.date: 12/22/2011
  dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: A16
  dmi.board.name: 0UY141
  dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.chassis.type: 8
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA16:bd12/22/2011:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeD830:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0UY141:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: Latitude D830
  dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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