lshal output seems to be identical when the nvidia driver is forced to control the backlight. I agree, the nvidia driver is probably passing the wrong number of brightness levels. Thanks for the link to bug 7779, i'll play around wth that script later.
-- Backlight controls of laptops with NVIDIA NVS and Quadro FX 880M GPUs no longer function while using proprietary drivers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/562005 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