I can confirm this bug with an HP dv7-6b78us laptop under Kubuntu 11.10. I was able to fix the issue by adding acpi_backlight=vendor to /etc/default/grub and then running: sudo update-grub
I can confirm this bug with an HP dv7-6b78us laptop under Kubuntu 11.10. I was able to fix the issue by adding acpi_backlight= vendor to /etc/default/grub and then running:
sudo update-grub