I did some searching in gnome's bugzilla and found a bug report that seemed to be related to this problem
Bug 483134 – Brightness *increases* on idle on AC with idle_dim_ac disabled http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=483134 -- Backlight resets to full intensity after few minutes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153005 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
