Terminal Brightness Adjustment Problem

[WarLocke]

I think mine's about to kick the bucket as well. :(

It's weird, when booting up (while going through the memory test, and such) the screen seems to jerk - not by much, but enough to be noticable.

Then, if I load up KotOR or The Ur-Quan Masters, the screen does this weird 'wave/ripple' thing - but it's rock-solid when looking at my desktop or using Firefox. Very strange... <_<