This is fixed upstream in the 3.10-rc4 kernel by this commit:

author  Ash Willis 2013-05-29
committer       Rafael J. Wysocki 2013-06-01
commit  780a6ec640a3fed671fc2c40e4dd30c03eca3ac3

    ACPI / video: ignore BIOS initial backlight value for HP Pavilion g6
    
    This patch addresses kernel bug 56661. BIOS reports an incorrect
    backlight value, causing the driver to switch off the backlight
    completely during startup. This patch ignores the incorrect value from
    BIOS.
    
    References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56661
    Signed-off-by: Ash Willis <ashwil...@programmer.net>
    Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wyso...@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk>

This has been backported to the upstream 3.2.47 kernel as commit 
8de5f8abdee26b1dc13e98c401a68637df2ad0dc
The progress of having the 3.2.47 kernel SRU's to Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise 
Pangolin" can be followed at 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1193029

** Bug watch added: Linux Kernel Bug Tracker #56661
   http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56661

** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed

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  Ubuntu 13.04 boots to dark screen on HP G6 laptop - ACPI backlight
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