I found something interesting that might help resolve this. I was updating my karmic on my T5810, and AIGLX somehow broke. So it came up without any hardware 3d acceleration at all, but the brightness applet and keys worked!
-- Screen brightness does not function on Acer Aspire Timeline 5810TZ https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438537 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
