Workaround for this bug is to uncheck the "Use ambient light to adjust LCD brightness" which is found on the "General" tab in Gnome's Power management preferences.
The patch is in the source for applesmc-dkms - 0.14.4-0ubuntu1~mactel- support1~jaunty5 from 2009-05-10 but still the screen is randomly dimmed very low after a short time. Well, I find the whole idea of automatically dimming quite annoying so I'm happy with just turning it off.... -- Backlight keeps getting darker on MacBookPro https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/285815 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mactel Support, which is the registrant for Mactel Support. Status in Mactel Support: Fix Released Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “hal” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Binary package hint: hal [email protected]: i am using a macbook pro 3.1 with intrepid beta and the nvidia driver. i finally managed to have the backlight keys F1 and F2 working but now i face another problem. when i change the backlight setting, it resets itself after some minutes to an average light level. then i use f2 to increase backlight again and some time later it goes down again.i have deactivated the shade setting in the gnome power management. the light is also turned down while moving the mouse or typing. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
