Also confirmed on Dell Latitude D530 . Although stopping hal does not change anything for me, I also still see the GUI indication.
Stopping gnome-power-manager removes the GUI indication and dimming the brightness is more fine grained. -- Karmic, Dell laptop: Brightness changes in double steps using Fn-UP/Down Keys https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458546 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