Arbitrary backlight brightnesses get floored to the nearest 1/8

Binary package hint: xbacklight

Sometimes I'd like to set my backlight somewhere between the preset options I can get with Fn+F5 and Fn+F6. In the past, calling

]$ xbacklight -set n

where 0 <= n <= 100 would set the backlight to a value between 0 and 100.

Now n gets floored to the nearest 12.5 % , so n=24 gets transformed to 12.5%, n = 26 -> 25%, not 24% nor 26%.

this also means that if you call

]$ xbacklight -inc 5

for example, nothing happens.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: d6587df64f5abea33dcf94c42360ad73
CheckboxSystem: b633b4f40868d491c2ae5b50030ce6f3
Date: Thu Dec 10 10:40:13 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: xbacklight 1.1-1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.52-generic
SourcePackage: xbacklight
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic x86_64