Ubuntu
libsmbios package

  1. Bug #189814
  2. Comment #58

Comment 58 for bug 189814

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Andrea Ratto (andrearatto) wrote : Re: HAL lockups or crashes dell laptops with a BIOS password

probably on older kernel Hal does not report brightness setting capability to gnome-power-manager, so the bug is just not triggered. You also loose that functionality if you note.