Have the same problem with my msi ge 600 laptop. Driver issue likely because I can adjast brightness switching to another video card.
lshw -c video *-display VGA compatible controller Madison [Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series] Hynix Semiconductor (Hyundai Electronics) ID: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 version: 00 64 bits 33MHz pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom driver=fglrx_pci latency=0 IRQ:46 memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0020000-f003ffff ioport:d000(size=256) memory:f0000000-f001ffff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/999888 Title: Missing brightness control in System Settings/Brightness and Lock To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-control-center/+bug/999888/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs