use the proprietary driver in comment4 to clean out this bug: dumping information by "dpkg -l | grep fglrx":
ii fglrx-amdcccle-experimental-13 2:13.101-0ubuntu0.0.2 Catalyst Control Center for the AMD graphics accelerators ii fglrx-experimental-13 2:13.101-0ubuntu0.0.2 Video driver for the AMD graphics accelerators -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1134172 Title: Unable to change brightness at all To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1134172/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs