I killed gnome-power-manager and it stops the flickering. I restarted it with the --verbose option and got this output. Posting it here just in case it helps.
** Attachment added: "gnome-power-manager-verbose-output.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33798145/gnome-power-manager-verbose-output.txt -- brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/415023 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 desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
