I can confirm the same behavious as Bernhard, in that I suffer the random backlight flashes when moving the cursor following a period of inactivity, and running
xrandr --output LVDS --set BACKLIGHT_CONTROL combination corrects the problem. Here are the first lines of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) Please ask me for whatever additional information may be required and I'll provide it. -- [i965] Wierd backlight brightness behaviour looks like flashes on Amilo Si 2636 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356510 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
