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Maybe this fix from Dov-El works for you as well? It worked for me, but I am not on Kde:
"The fix is found @ http://
<quote>
To fix brightness, it's easy as just editing two script files. No bios change whatsoever.
sudo gedit /etc/acpi/
replace everything in the file with
#!/bin/bash
CURRENT=$(grep "current:" /proc/acpi/
case "$CURRENT" in
100)
echo -n 100 > /proc/acpi/
;;
87)
echo -n 100 > /proc/acpi/
;;
75)
echo -n 87 > /proc/acpi/
;;
62)
echo -n 75 > /proc/acpi/
;;
50)
echo -n 62 > /proc/acpi/
;;
37)
echo -n 50 > /proc/acpi/
;;
25)
echo -n 37 > /proc/acpi/
;;
12)
echo -n 25 > /proc/acpi/
;;
*)
echo -n 100 > /proc/acpi/
;;
esac
sudo gedit /etc/acpi/
replace everything in the file with
#!/bin/bash
CURRENT=$(grep "current:" /proc/acpi/
case "$CURRENT" in
12)
echo -n 12 > /proc/acpi/
;;
25)
echo -n 12 > /proc/acpi/
;;
37)
echo -n 25 > /proc/acpi/
;;
50)
echo -n 37 > /proc/acpi/
;;
62)
echo -n 50 > /proc/acpi/
;;
75)
echo -n 62 > /proc/acpi/
;;
87)
echo -n 75 > /proc/acpi/
;;
100)
echo -n 87 > /proc/acpi/
;;
*)
echo -n 50 > /proc/acpi/
;;
esac
</quote>"