Comment 7 for bug 551410

Hi Mario,
Here's the output in kern.log - there were no changes in the brightness of the screen, though...

Desktop$
[arnold@arnold-ubuntu-1 Desktop$ sudo tail -f /var/log/kern.log
Apr 1 21:01:01 arnold-ubuntu-1 kernel: [ 26.164015] vmnet8: no IPv6 routers present
Apr 1 21:01:01 arnold-ubuntu-1 kernel: [ 26.380049] vmnet1: no IPv6 routers present
Apr 1 21:01:05 arnold-ubuntu-1 kernel: [ 30.052101] eth1: no IPv6 routers present
Apr 1 21:01:21 arnold-ubuntu-1 kernel: [ 45.754316] applesmc: light sensor data length set to 10
Apr 1 21:01:40 arnold-ubuntu-1 kernel: [ 64.575133] /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 2738 (vmnet-bridge)
Apr 1 21:01:40 arnold-ubuntu-1 kernel: [ 64.575146] /dev/vmnet: hub 0 does not exist, allocating memory.
Apr 1 21:01:40 arnold-ubuntu-1 kernel: [ 64.575164] /dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened
Apr 1 21:01:40 arnold-ubuntu-1 kernel: [ 64.575174] bridge-eth1: is a Wireless Adapter
Apr 1 21:01:40 arnold-ubuntu-1 kernel: [ 64.575178] bridge-eth1: up
Apr 1 21:01:40 arnold-ubuntu-1 kernel: [ 64.575183] bridge-eth1: attached
Apr 1 21:04:39 arnold-ubuntu-1 kernel: [ 244.261699] nvidia_bl: MacBookPro 5,3 detected
Apr 1 21:04:39 arnold-ubuntu-1 kernel: [ 244.261730] nvidia_bl: Nvidia graphics adapter 10de:0647 (106b:00bc) detected
Apr 1 21:04:39 arnold-ubuntu-1 kernel: [ 244.261733] nvidia_bl: using BAR #0 at 0xe4000000, smartdimmer at 0xe461c084
Apr 1 21:04:39 arnold-ubuntu-1 kernel: [ 244.261911] nvidia_bl: register mask: 0x000003ff
Apr 1 21:04:39 arnold-ubuntu-1 kernel: [ 244.261914] nvidia_bl: setting brightness to 1023
Apr 1 21:04:39 arnold-ubuntu-1 kernel: [ 244.261916] nvidia_bl: register write: 0x800003ff
Apr 1 21:05:05 arnold-ubuntu-1 kernel: [ 270.233816] nvidia_bl: setting brightness to 512
Apr 1 21:05:05 arnold-ubuntu-1 kernel: [ 270.233820] nvidia_bl: register write: 0x80000200
Apr 1 21:05:17 arnold-ubuntu-1 kernel: [ 282.004325] nvidia_bl: setting brightness to 800
Apr 1 21:05:17 arnold-ubuntu-1 kernel: [ 282.004329] nvidia_bl: register write: 0x80000320
Apr 1 21:05:25 arnold-ubuntu-1 kernel: [ 289.740375] nvidia_bl: setting brightness to 200
Apr 1 21:05:25 arnold-ubuntu-1 kernel: [ 289.740378] nvidia_bl: register write: 0x800000c8