Comment 206 for bug 568611

I'm a complete newcomer to Ubuntu (and Linux in general), but I can immediately see the improvements in using my netbook with it over Win7.

That said, I'm having the same display brightness problems as above.

I can use the workaround for "setpci", but I can't get the PPA working. It shows up as an entry named "linux-kamal-mjgbacklight" in the Ubuntu Software Centre application, but the "intel_backlight" entry isn't there when I run $ ls /sys/class/backlight (there's nothing in there now - it used to list the default).

I'm using a Samsung N210. The output for $ uname -a is "Linux Samtu 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:50 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux".

Am I even meant to be using this patch on this machine?? Any help gratefully received.