First, no we do not give up on this, but things can get delayed by the bulk of other things.
@gidantribal, I saw that the test kernel did not help (or made things worse?). Could you post the dmesg from that kernel and 'grep -r . /proc/acpi/video'. Is the brightness changing when changing the values in the acpi brightness attribute?
The Jaunty kernel should not have the same specific problem as Intrepid. Intrepid has a bug where acer-wmi stops controlling brightness when there is no acpi brightness support. But it should do that when there _is_ support. This is fixed in Jaunty but apparently there are other issues as well.
First, no we do not give up on this, but things can get delayed by the bulk of other things.
@gidantribal, I saw that the test kernel did not help (or made things worse?). Could you post the dmesg from that kernel and 'grep -r . /proc/acpi/video'. Is the brightness changing when changing the values in the acpi brightness attribute?
The Jaunty kernel should not have the same specific problem as Intrepid. Intrepid has a bug where acer-wmi stops controlling brightness when there is no acpi brightness support. But it should do that when there _is_ support. This is fixed in Jaunty but apparently there are other issues as well.