I just upgraded to intrepid yesterday. The slider bar does now appear when the brightness buttons are pressed, and the screen brightens and darkens as expected.
I'm using the "NVIDIA accelarated graphics driver (version 177)" according to Hardware Drivers. -- [gutsy] brightness keys only pop up a slider on a t61p, they don't affect screen brightness https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/151828 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs