Well I wanted to let aBLACKMAN know that the solution I discovered was to turn acpi off. It basically disables the ambient light sensor so the computer is bright all the time. The Fn ambient control keys also work with this configuration in Hardy for me. The way I did this was add acpi=off to the end of your boot line. So...
You should find this section in your /boot/grub/menu.lst file: title Ubuntu 8.04 root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=a68069dc-5837-47f8-88fe-ff6d7f8ad8dc ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic quiet Then just add acpi=off to the end of the kernel line so that it looks like this: title Ubuntu 8.04 root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=a68069dc-5837-47f8-88fe-ff6d7f8ad8dc ro quiet splash acpi=off initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic quiet Just reboot and the settings should take effect. The only problem that I've had with this configuration is when I go to shutdown, the computer stops on the command line and I have to press the power button again to shut it off. I'm not sure if this is the proper way to shut it down, but I havn't had anything bad happen yet. The weird thing is the computer restarts fine with the configuration. Hope this helps! ** Changed in: hal (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => New -- backlight does opposite of what it's supposed to do https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/199729 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