[Bug 568611] Re: Screen brightness control fails on Dell Studio 1558

2011-10-29 Thread Darren Sargent
I just discovered something really odd, by accident: tapping the middle "touch" button on the right of the laptop, the thing that looks like three lines with blobs on the end meeting at a point, dims the backlight as I want -- I can increase the brightness with Fn-F5. It's an odd key combination bu

[Bug 568611] Re: Screen brightness control fails on Dell Studio 1558

2011-10-29 Thread Darren Sargent
Hi Kamal, Thanks for your work on the backlight issue. It was working fine for me with your PPA, until I upgraded to 11.10 (Oneiric). Now it's back to the broken behavior - stuck at maximum, responds to the hotkeys (but only moves up or down a notch then jumps back). I've tried various combinati