I had an issue (tracked in bug 261721) where adjusting brightness caused loss of most keybord functionality, thankfuly updating to a proposed linux-image fixed that problem, but sadly broke my on screen indicator for brightness.
I can now happily report that updating my gnome-power-manager has corrected this second issue. So for reference I am running a Dell Inspirion 6400 gnome-power-manager 2.24.0-0ubuntu8.1 linux-image-2.6.27-10.20 -- No popup OSD for Dell Studio laptops https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/304187 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs