Dmitriy: Yes it is a dirty hack :) I don't know of any other applications that would increment the backlight up and down, and GNOME's ability to set the brightness to a specific percentage (without going through steps inbetween) *should* still be functional with it...although even the unpatched gnome-settings-daemon in Debian Wheezy doesn't know how to handle simple things like "dim on battery power" correctly yet so I can't test that conclusively right now.
I think that your solution might require a patch to the kernel itself. At least in my case, backlight keypresses are handled by the thinkpad- acpi module, and I'm guessing non-thinkpad problem laptops use the kernel's built-in acpi functionality. I could be wrong though. Either way, this bug now belongs to gnome-settings-daemon, since all power-handling functionality has moved over there. This bug entry should probably be marked 'Invalid' as you said, and a new bug should be opened. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/527157 Title: Brightness controls skips Levels. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/527157/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
