As with kakukri, I can confirm that Aren Olson's easy to implement fix has my Lenovo Thinkpad X61 Tablet brightness working perfectly, now. He suggested adding the following line:
options thinkpad_acpi brightness_enable=1 to the end of the following file: /etc/modprobe.d/options Once I made this change, and rebooted, the think pad brightness keys starting actually changing the brightness. The applet was already working before the change, as other's have mentioned. This is under Ubuntu hardy alpha6 with all the updates, which puts me on kernel 2.6.24-12-generic -- [REGRESSION] Impossible to change LCD brightness on Thinkpad R61/T61/X61 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198476 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