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  1. Bug #765438
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Comment 11 for bug 765438

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Wolfgang Kufner (wolfgangkufner) wrote : Re: On startup, the backlight is off on laptop

A patched kernel and gnome-power-manager exist to get the backlight hotkeys working:

https://launchpad.net/~kamalmostafa/+archive/linux-kamal-mjgbacklight
add it to your sources e.g. with:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:kamalmostafa/linux-kamal-mjgbacklight
then reload the package information and upgrade your system (e.g. with synaptic)

This should give you a the patched kernel and gnome-power-manager. Shut down and boot.

For my system this kernel gives me full hotkey backlight control (with the caveat that I have to up the brightness again after every time I close the lid - with the now working hotkeys).

Test and report back.