I think this should be solved the same way we did for Win8 systems though this laptop's firmware doesn't claim Win8 support but Matthew doesn't agree. The ACPI video control interface is broken and the reason is beyond me, so I'll re-assign this bug to Drivers/Platform-x86 for more analysis.
Guillaume,
You can continue to use the xorg.conf to select intel_backlight for your laptop.
I think this should be solved the same way we did for Win8 systems though this laptop's firmware doesn't claim Win8 support but Matthew doesn't agree. The ACPI video control interface is broken and the reason is beyond me, so I'll re-assign this bug to Drivers/ Platform- x86 for more analysis.
Guillaume,
You can continue to use the xorg.conf to select intel_backlight for your laptop.