Comment 17 for bug 129388

I'm having the same problem on my MSI GX700. As Fran said above I too have the screen constantly going dim/bright and for now have disables gnome-power-manager which seems to of solved the problem for now except that I have no battery info. I have run the "acpi -V" command a few times and I get a mixture of

 >acpi -V
     Battery 1: charged, 100%
     Thermal 1: ok, 41.0 degrees C
  AC Adapter 1: on-line

> acpi -V
     Battery 1: charged, 0%
     Thermal 1: ok, 48.0 degrees C
  AC Adapter 1: on-line

>acpi -V
     Battery 1: charging, 0%, 64:00:00 until charged
     Thermal 1: ok, 48.0 degrees C
  AC Adapter 1: on-line

>acpi -V
     Battery 1: charged, 100%
     Thermal 1: ok, 37.0 degrees C
  AC Adapter 1: on-line

   all these were within a few seconds of each other so I suspect that this problem also effects the "Thermal 1" into too!?!? (Again as Fran says above it occurs every two minutes or so but can be forced to happen by using the CD drive or flipping back and forth through the windows with all the GL features enabled)

cheers
Mark
PS. I'm using a new install of ubuntu with the 2.6.22-14-generic kernel