This bug seems to have gone stale (again?), but I'd like to report that
it affects me with:
* 13.10, fully updated
* Thinkpad T440p (FHD panel, if that matters)
Using the slider in Settings Brightness Lock, it seems that there is
~15 brightness levels (it's hard to get an exact count, since
Another data point; I had posted over at
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2168780, but recently found
this bug based on kernel crash syslog entries.
Anyway, I'm on a Macbook 4,2 FWIW:
$ uname -a
Linux cle-mba 3.8.0-29-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 13 19:40:39 UTC 2013
x86_64 x86_64
Confirmed with a 4,2 Macbook Air. Thankfully I have a trackball in hand
most of the time, but this is definitely the biggest drawback I've
encountered so far since switching from OS X a couple of days ago.
FWIW, xf86-input-mtrack has recently added two options that sound
promising:
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