Yeah, everything's working now. I don't think the fdi patch was needed (to fix this particular problem on my particular machine). I actually removed all device sections relating to thinkpads or IBM or Lenovo, rebooted, and everything is working peachily. Looking at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340231 this doesn't seem to be the problem Crispin Flowerday was having on the Thinkpad X31.
I dunno how this got fixed, but I'm happy it did. Thanks! -- [Feisty] Thinkpad (all models) LCD brightness control cycles between lowest settings only https://launchpad.net/bugs/81407 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs