Yes, this is entirely fixed for my Macbook 2,1 using the latest Lucid liveCD! Brightness goes all the way from fully bright to pleasantly off on the lowest notch natively.
I noticed that the highly related bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/397617 was just marked Fix Released. I believe that fix took care of both bugs.
Yes, this is entirely fixed for my Macbook 2,1 using the latest Lucid liveCD! Brightness goes all the way from fully bright to pleasantly off on the lowest notch natively.
I noticed that the highly related bug https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/bugs/ 397617 was just marked Fix Released. I believe that fix took care of both bugs.