without hald-addon-dell-backlight you can change brightness only through FN-keys, which work at a hardware level, (at least on many models). thanks to hald-addon-dell-backlight, you can change brightness trough software, and get a nice screen notification when you use the FN-keys. If you don't like it, probably there is a tricky way to deactivate it.
There are good reason for revising every software in existence, but bugs like this do not have any effect at all. Following and investigating bugs for the individual problems is the way to go. Abusing bug traking for else, just wastes developers and other people's time. And I think they know how in bad shape libsmbios and hald-addon-dell-backlight are. Thanks for your interests though. -- Revision of hald-addon-dell-backlight needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/292778 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
