I just wanted to add to this that I can confirm that the issue is with hal -- if I stop hald (or log out of a Gnome session) I can control the brightness. Also, hal has been upgraded to 0.5.9.1-1ubuntu6 since my original bug report, but the problem remains.
-- hal update broke laptop brightness control https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137071 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
