Comment 36 for bug 551668

Did this make it into kernel 3.2? What can be done for the brightness controls to work properly?

I reported https://bugs.launchpad.net/nouveau/+bug/551668 a while ago on Ubuntu's bug tracker I believe is this bug or a related one and it is still causing problems on the following configuration:

alex-mayorga@VPCCW1FFXL:~$ uname -a
Linux VPCCW1FFXL 3.2.0-21-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 30 04:25:35 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
alex-mayorga@VPCCW1FFXL:~$ lspci -nn | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 230M] [10de:0a2a] (rev a2)
alex-mayorga@VPCCW1FFXL:~$ apt-cache show xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 344
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2
Provides: xorg-driver-video
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libdrm-nouveau1a (>= 2.4.23), libudev0 (>= 147), xorg-video-abi-11, xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.10.99.901)
Recommends: libgl1-mesa-dri (>= 7.11.1)
Filename: pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau_0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2_amd64.deb
Size: 109400
MD5sum: 5ab8e5861a11a57d783fa9862d88900f
SHA1: 7abb48438df08eed97dd4676bc111bdbaf714376
SHA256: 886d7e2f968819373d81a932388ede20995d9bd1d3d8f2091100f988a314a780
Description-en: X.Org X server -- Nouveau display driver
 This driver for the X.Org X server (see xserver-xorg for a further description)
 provides support for NVIDIA Riva, TNT, GeForce, and Quadro cards.
 .
 This package provides 2D support including EXA acceleration, Xv and
 RandR. 3D functionality is provided by the libgl1-mesa-dri package.
 .
 This package is built from the FreeDesktop.org xf86-video-nouveau driver.
Homepage: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
Description-md5: b084a16945b86c1eda89ad33dbb4530d
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y
Task: ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-usb, kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-active-desktop, kubuntu-active, edubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-usb, xubuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-frontend, mythbuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-backend-slave, mythbuntu-backend-master, lubuntu-core, ubuntustudio-desktop