Comment 32 for bug 551668

(In reply to comment #17)
> I just did a git pull, make clean, and recompiled the modules. My modules.dep
> file also shows that the extra/ directory is being used for nouveau modules. Is
> there anything else I must be doing? I'm quite sure that the stock ubuntu
> modules are being overriden.
>
> I'm also attaching my dmesg and xorg.log to be sure :)

I'm afraid somehow you're still getting the old driver loaded. The code in nouveau git *cannot* report max_brightness of 1025 anymore, as evidenced by this section of the patches linked above:

- props.max_brightness = 1025;
+ props.max_brightness = 100;