i have the same issue and i notice that this is only happening when the gnome-settings-daemon is running, maybe the problem appeared after the upgrade of gnome 3.4 to gnome 3.6?
i can see that because when im in the lightdm, the brightness control works fine I really dont know much but this is what happening in my pc, i have a Dell Inspiron N5050 with Windows 7 pre-installed sorry if my english is not too good -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1069357 Title: Hardware keys change backlight brightness in much larger increments/steps than expected To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1069357/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs