For der_vegi (and myself) I created two packages that contain the upstream fix for this issue and quick&dirty hacks to make setbrightness work (dim on idle/battery) and not make gpm do setbrightness on keypresses. Use at your own risk and please *do not* submit bug reports against these packages.
http://ijscoboer.nl/public/debs/hal_0.5.10-5ubuntu8_i386-dellfix.deb http://ijscoboer.nl/public/debs/gnome-power-manager_2.21.92-0ubuntu2_i386-dellfix.deb -- [Hardy]Status of display brightness freezes g-p-m (or even X) for a while https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/176687 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
