Hi, I'm having this same problem on a Gateway MX6440 laptop too. The
symptoms are similar, I am able to use keyboard functions to adjust the
brightness, but not the applet. I've loaded the "dcdbas" kernel module
as suggested by this thread, but it has not helped.
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Dell Laptops don't talk to HAL
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 43572 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/43572
Can confirm that this is also a problem on a Gateway MX6440 laptop.
Running Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid, so it's still a problem after at least two
major releases.
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