Jaunty jackalope can operate backlight as long as user doesn't install nvidia drivers. I noticed that when I launched live cd and installed it on my laptop. Backlight was changing when power was unplugged as well as I could operate it by using brightness applet (however it claimed it cannot read the brightness level). As soon as nvidia drivers (180.44) were installed, I lost control over the backlight.
** Tags added: backlight nvidia samsung -- brightness hardware control on Samsung R510 doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/297962 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