Comment 3 for bug 692159

Can I try to poke this into development.

I have an Emachines E525 Laptop.

The brightness controls don't work. The brightness indicator appears at the top but doesn't do anything when the buttons are pressed. Its damn annoying.

jason@mint ~ $ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: LinuxMint
Description: Linux Mint 10 Julia
Release: 10
Codename: julia

Hopefully this will also help..

System: Host mint Kernel 2.6.35-22-generic i686 (32 bit) Distro Linux Mint 10 Julia
CPU: Single core Intel Celeron 900 (-UP-) cache 1024 KB flags (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 ssse3) bmips 4388.51 clocked at 2194.256 MHz
Graphics: Card Intel Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller X.Org 1.9.0 Res: 1366x768@60.1hz
           GLX Renderer Mesa DRI Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset GEM 20100330 DEVELOPMENT x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.9-devel Direct Rendering Yes
Audio: Card Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller driver HDA Intel BusID: 00:1b.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.23
Network: Card-1 Atheros AR8132 Fast Ethernet driver atl1c v: 1.0.0.2-NAPI at port 1000 BusID: 05:00.0
           Card-2 Atheros AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter driver ath5k v: 0.6.0 BusID: 04:00.0
Disks: HDD Total Size: 160.0GB (4.7% used) 1: /dev/sda Hitachi_HTS54321 160.0GB 43C
Partition: ID:/ size: 141G used: 7.0G (6%) fs: ext4 ID:swap-1 size: 6.29GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 54.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes 145 Uptime 15 min Memory 477.9/1943.8MB Runlevel 2 Client Shell inxi 1.4.12