OK, after the clarifications from Isaac Bowen and olofsj, things are working acceptably for the Fn+hotkey adjustment of the brightness.
It seems what I was seeing was that hidden setting of the gnome-power- manager mentioned by olofsj. Without the "acpi_osi=Linux" boot option, the 'dim' setting of gnome-power-manager is fairly bright, so I didn't notice when that kicked in. However, with the "acpi_osi=Linux" boot option, the 'dim' setting is actually dim, and that was quite noticeable. And annoying. So, to recap, Eee PC users really ought to upgrade to at least the 0706 BIOS version using the Asus update utility shipped with the netbook (that really requires its own documentation because the user interface is peculiar). Then they can add the "acpi_osi=Linux" to the grub configuration as described above by olofsj and Dave Gluss above. And then they will need to edit the hidden settings of gnome-power-demon as described by olofsj. Whew! -- hotkeys adjust brightness non-monotonically on EEEPC 1005PE https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/512567 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
