This problem is back in Gutsy on my T42. I have all of the updates as of today. The problem was gone since feisty was out, and has now showed up again in gutsy.
As before, killing gnome-power-manager makes it go away but kills the on-screen stuff when you toggle the brightness ** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Confirmed -- [Feisty] Thinkpad (all models) LCD brightness control cycles between lowest settings only https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/81407 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs