I have tried the shortcut keys, They do not work. I fired up the power-manager and told it not to do it, but it still does it. I slid the brighness slide bar on the power manager but it did not seem to do anything. I have to do echo 15 > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness To get it back.
Does this still happen with 3.0.0? Thanks.
I am not seeing this problem any more.