Bug#485465: sometimes brightness OK (lowest) at boot

[jidanni@jidanni.org]

>> Maybe a burglar alarm can be attached to the brightness, so that
>> whenever it is tampered with, a syslog entry will be made, so we can
>> tell what programs try to meddle with the brightness setting.

H> If you are confortable recompiling the kernel, I can send you a patch with
H> that "burgar alarm".  Just tell me exactly which kernel you're using.

(Too bad stock kernels here on sid,
$ apt-cache policy $@
linux-image-2.6.25-2-686:
  Installed: 2.6.25-7
don't have such a feature, as I dare not get deeper than stock kernels.)