Comment 43 for bug 1007765

Today's live dvd build for Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) still has this bug, although it does seem as if you have to do a little more than just increasing and decreasing the brightness (you have to increase and decrease it rapidly, kind of agressively), but maybe it just seems that way to me.

I do agree that this is a rather serious problem. Not being able to increase or decrease the brightness on a laptop seriously affects battery life (as I am stuck on maximum brightness), almost to the point where it is becoming a problem for use during class, which is my laptops main purpose (and I opted for the extra large battery, so I can't even imagine what it's like for people with the normal battery). So I do hope this will be fixed as soon as possible, hopefully at least by 12.10.