Same for me, also on an inspiron 1501. However there are more issues, the powermanager is also slow: disconnect power and it takes more than half a minute before it shows.
I think this was introduced somewhere between hardy alpha2 and alpha3 when iirc something with the polling intervals changed. -- [Hardy]Status of display brightness blocks part of the screen for a while https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/176687 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
