FYI the situation is hilariously worse out-of-the-box in Jaunty (as of Alpha 3), at least on my Dell M1330. The brightness seems to change 4-6 times when using the hotkey once, so in my case I have 2-3 brightness levels instead of 8. However using acpi_backlight=vendor also fixes it in Jaunty.
-- brightness changes twice when using hotkeys https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/257827 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