aahh, never mind. <super>space with Gnome-Do stops all other software input, effectively blocking gnome-power-manager from registering the brightness keypresses, giving access to all brightness levels.
stopping gnome-power-manager produces access to all 8 brightness levels via brightness hotkeys.
this seems like a bug with gnome-power-manager on Karmic Koala 9.10 still...
aahh, never mind. <super>space with Gnome-Do stops all other software input, effectively blocking gnome-power-manager from registering the brightness keypresses, giving access to all brightness levels.
stopping gnome-power-manager produces access to all 8 brightness levels via brightness hotkeys.
this seems like a bug with gnome-power-manager on Karmic Koala 9.10 still...