Asus UL30A backlight malfunction on screen off/wakeup

[epek]

On UL30A Bios 212 in Oneiric Ocelot the backlight turns off as expected, but on resume the backup does not come up again, until the laptop has finished a (sw)suspend and wakeup cycle. After that the backlight works again until it blacks out again on predefinied timeout. (see additional information)

This bug is definitely reproducible.
Switching the backlight brightness level from the console using

sudo setpci -s 00:02.0 F4.B=00
sudo setpci -s 00:02.0 F4.B=ff

works well.

It may be a scripting issue.

additional information:
While the screen is switched off and backlight is off, no key or key combination will help but FN+F1 (sleep). The same applies for a lid close, if configured.
Neither setting FN+F5, nor FN+F6 nor FN+F7 nor FN+F8 nor FN+Space will switch the backlight on again.
If you use an external light, you can see shadows of the screen content, so it is definitely a backlight issue.

Using Ubuntu kernel 3.0.0-12-generic, with tuxonice ppa (does not mak a difference) and kernel options as follows:
acpi_os_name=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor

dmesg reports:
[164260.055928] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored

This occurs despite acpidump reports
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  0330: 1d 5f 4f 53 49 0d 57 69 6e 64 6f 77 73 20 32 30 ._OSI.Windows 20
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  03a0: 53 56 52 a1 4e 07 a0 26 4d 43 54 48 5f 4f 53 5f SVR.N..&MCTH_OS_
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  03d0: a0 39 4d 43 54 48 5f 4f 53 5f 0d 4d 69 63 72 6f .9MCTH_OS_.Micro
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  0400: 6f 6e 00 70 0a 02 4f 53 56 52 a0 17 4d 43 54 48 on.p..OSVR..MCTH
  0410: 5f 4f 53 5f 0d 4c 69 6e 75 78 00 70 0a 03 4f 53 _OS_.Linux.p..OS
  0420: 56 52 a4 4f 53 56 52 14 4e 04 4d 43 54 48 02 a0 VR.OSVR.N.MCTH..
...

Using no acpi_backlight option will result in inusable or erratic behaviour of function key combinations.

May be related to bug: #800625, #741223, #756938

[Panagiotis P.totte (tavros314)]

how do i write in the console?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.