On My Samsung R580 i have the same issue: if you let the mouse on the brightness applet, a tooltip saying "Unable to get Screen brightness" appear (the real message is a french one "Impossible d'obtenir la luminosité de l'écran". So is it an ACPI issue ? see hal.txt a resulting lshal output file.
** Attachment added: "hal.txt a resulting lshal output file" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/50163044/hal.txt -- Brightness hot-keys don't work on Samsung NC10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/540333 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