Kamal's patch and Jose's instructions are working for me on Gateway NV59 11h with BIOS 1.09 and GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_backlight=vendor" (I did not update my BIOS as I can't figure out where the Gateway BIOS updates are.)
I vote for including the patch in mainline. Thanks Kamal and Jose! -- Screen brightness can not be adjusted in Lucid with Intel Arrandale graphics https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/573984 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