Comment 2 for bug 295560

Yes I am doing so.

sudo dellLcdBrightness -a
Read AC Mode Setting
    current: 0
        min: 0
        max: 7

libsmbios worked well in hardy, but now it gets confused too. For example if I do this:
1: Fn+down till mininum brightness
2: raise brightness to the maximum from the panel applet
I end up having about half the brightness, while gnome/hal think it's at 100%, and libsmbios at 0%.

the applet reads and change the brightness in some other way. It also appears to have a lot more possible levels.
I really don't kwnow how it does it, but it does not agree with libsmbios and the fn-keys, so the result is not good.