[Bug 311716] Re: The slider brightness Applet has value inverted after the last update (2.6.27-11)

[Dana Goyette]

I'm on the Jaunty kernel Version: 2.6.28-4.10, and this last upgrade
just broke ACPI backlight control on my EliteBook 8530w, which happens
not to have any "vendor" module for backlight control.  The
/sys/class/backlight dir is now empty.  Interestingly enough, I also
have another laptop where the "video" module works, but gives only 3
brightness levels... but the toshiba_acpi module (in the kernels that
happen to have it -- see
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/261318 -- gives 5
or 7 or so.  It seems like we should not blacklist the _BCM and _BCL
modules entirely; we should instead prefer vendor drivers over the video
module -- exactly the reverse of the way the upstream kernel seems to be
going.

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The slider brightness Applet has value inverted after the last update (2.6.27-11)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311716
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