Comment 6 for bug 223954

I have this problem too, although it doesn't behave quite the same way.

If I set brightness to the dimmest setting using the brightness app (I put a button for this on my panel and use that), then this will be reset to full brightness whenever I close the laptop lid or log out. In the first case, the brightness app still shows that it's set to dim, but I need to wiggle the bar to get the screen to remember this fact. In the latter case (log out and log back in), then my setting is lost. Note that each user has their own separate brightness setting, and there seems to be NO way to lower the brightness for the log in screen or the Shift-Alt-F1–F6 consoles.

I am running Hardy (installed from a LiveCD written from a downloaded disk image) on a Dell Inspirion E1505 laptop. I don't really understand how Gnome works, but I do know how to use the terminal, so I can report the contents of configuration files and the outputs of diagnostic commands, if you tell me what you need.

Please note that Bug #137598 is marked at Fix Released in Hardy, because that bug is about the way thinks went wrong in Gutsy. This bug probably has the same underlying causes, but it is about the behaviour in Hardy, which is different (and in my opinion, not as bad).