For what it's worth, on that toshiba laptop, I'm now running Debian Lenny, although I took kernel 2.6.26 when it was still only in Sid. With this kernel, no problems with the backlight. Lenny has xserver versions pretty similar to Hardy, so I think the kernel may be the source of the problem.
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