According to the creator of the msi-laptop driver this is due to the fact that ubuntu does not include the newer hal version 0.5.9. Brightness control works with the Fedora 7 live cd which does run this version of hal, so this is confirmed.
-- MSI laptop: brightness not controllable with Brightness applet https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/105568 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for hal in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
