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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rémi Chaintreuil, so your hardware may be tracked, could you please file a new report by executing the following in a terminal while booted into Ubuntu (not OS Lune) with a Ubuntu repository kernel (not a mainline one) via:
ubuntu-bug linux

For more on this, please read the official Ubuntu documentation:
Ubuntu Bug Control and Ubuntu Bug Squad: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/BestPractices#X.2BAC8-Reporting.Focus_on_One_Issue
Ubuntu Kernel Team: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/KernelTeamBugPolicies#Filing_Kernel_Bug_reports
Ubuntu Community: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette

When opening up the new report, please feel free to subscribe me to it.

Thank you for your understanding.

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Title:
  No Brightness Control on ASUS G75VW Notbook (304.43)

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-updates” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I've got no brightness control via Fn+F5 and Fn+F6 keys on my 17" ASUS
  G75VW notbeook with NVIDIA GeForce 660M GTX.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: nvidia-current-updates 304.43-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-13.14-generic 3.5.3
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-13-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  .proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0: Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0'
  .proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: ""
  .proc.driver.nvidia.version:
   NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  304.43  Sun Aug 19 20:14:03 PDT 2012
   GCC version:  gcc version 4.7.1 20120814 (prerelease) (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.1-7ubuntu1)
  .proc.driver.nvidia.warnings.fbdev:
   Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console
   on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver
   requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console
   drivers including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in
   corruption and stability problems, and is not supported.
  ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Sep  4 18:01:08 2012
  DistUpgraded: Fresh install
  DistroCodename: quantal
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  DkmsStatus:
   nvidia_bl, 0.17.3, 3.5.0-13-generic, x86_64: installed
   nvidiabl, 0.74, 3.5.0-13-generic, x86_64: installed
   nvidia-current-updates, 304.43, 3.5.0-13-generic, x86_64: installed
  GraphicsCard:
   NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:0fd4] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:2115]
  MachineType: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. G75VW
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-13-generic root=UUID=f6cc8053-9e10-45af-bab8-837d00dec017 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-updates
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 06/15/2012
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: G75VW.210
  dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
  dmi.board.name: G75VW
  dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
  dmi.board.version: 1.0
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
  dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrG75VW.210:bd06/15/2012:svnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:pnG75VW:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnG75VW:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:ct10:cvr1.0:
  dmi.product.name: G75VW
  dmi.product.version: 1.0
  dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.8.0-0ubuntu1
  version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.38-0ubuntu2
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.0~git20120821.c1114c61-0ubuntu2
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.0~git20120821.c1114c61-0ubuntu2
  version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers N/A
  version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.12.99.905-0ubuntu3
  version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.99.99~git20120713.6ef1ad6a-0ubuntu1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.20.3-0ubuntu1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.1-4~ubuntu1

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