Changing the values for gnome power manager didn't really solve the problem , as I had mentioned before. I'm now using Icewm , without gnome-power-manager and the problem with the screen brightness still exists. I suppose this is a problem with acpi , rather than with gnome- power-manager.
-- Screen brightness gets reset to 100% on resume from sleep https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/216198 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs