This looks more like a gnome-power-manager aspect. When you log in as a user (and I suspect the login screen counts as a user) it restores the last configured brightness settings.
If you have more information that pinpoints this bug to X rather than gpm, please feel free to elaborate and reassign it back. ** Package changed: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu) => gnome-power- manager (Ubuntu) -- Brightness value not preserved when returning to login screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/665633 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp