Confirmed by other users. A workaround is to add the backlight control applet to gnome-panel, and then you can set backlight to its real maximum value.
** Changed in: acpi (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- Samsung NC10 : max backlight is startup backlight https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/337370 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