To make things easier, I splitted this bug report up in 2 separated reports.
Bug #292778 takes care of the "regardless of whether 'hald-addon-dell-backlight' is running". Bug #285323 takes care of the rest you reported.
To make things easier, I splitted this bug report up in 2 separated reports.
Bug #292778 takes care of the "regardless of whether 'hald-addon- dell-backlight' is running".
Bug #285323 takes care of the rest you reported.