Brightness Applet: "Cannot get laptop panel brightness"

[John Doe]

Binary package hint: gnome-applets

Maverick on an Asus V6V Laptop: the Brightness Applet isn't working correctly, I get the message

"Cannot get laptop panel brightness"

when hovering over it. It shows the "LCD Off" Icon, even when brightness is at maximum.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-applets 2.30.0-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-5.6-generic 2.6.35-rc3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-5-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jun 23 17:36:27 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-applets

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

could you execute: apport-collect 597745 ? thanks.

[pqwoerituytrueiwoq (pqwoerituytrueiwoq)]

I found an easy way to get the brightness
$ cat /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness
If this was Javascript I would do this with the string to get the percentage

var str='levels: 20 28 36 44 52 60 68 76 84 92 100\ncurrent: 60';
alert('Laptop back light is at '+str.substr(str.indexOf('current: ')+'current: '.length)+'%.');

This could be used as a backup when it can't get the brightness using the current method
Using Ubuntu 10.04.1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[John Doe (jodo-deactivatedaccount)]

It would be very nice if some one could give some advice or a comment on this. The Bug still exists and is really nasty. Thank you.