Comment 228 for bug 568611

I'm very pleased to announce that the last of Matthew Garrett's backlight patches has been merged into the upstream Linux tree[1] and the Ubuntu Oneiric kernel tree. It should appear in the next official Oneiric kernel release (3.0.0-9.12). As noted previously, some Oneiric systems will likely still need to boot with "acpi_backlight=vendor", and pending resolution of bug 827517 all Oneiric systems will still need to use the gnome-settings-daemon package supplied by my backlight PPA[2]. Further small refinements (fixing the popup display behavior) are likely in the near future.

I will be looking into the plausibility of merging the patch set into the official Ubuntu kernels for Natty and Maverick next, and will continue to support those releases via my PPA in the meantime.

[1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=aaa6fd2a004147bf32fce05720938236de3361d9
[2] https://launchpad.net/~kamalmostafa/+archive/linux-kamal-mjgbacklight