BTW, my hardware buttons about brightness WORK (on both my laptops). What doesn't work is the Brightness Gnome APPLET. And when I emailed the applet author and looked at it he concluded that the culprit is your HAL.
-- HAL is not built with libsmbios https://launchpad.net/bugs/92194 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
