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HurricanePootis

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[KDE] [SOLVED]: Laptop Backlight Keys No Longer Work

Hello,

I am using a Dell Inspiron 14 5425 with the Ryzen 5 5625U APU. I have decided against posting this post in the laptop issues section, as my display's brightness can still be controlled using the powerdevil GUI, third-party utilities, and manually in the sys file tree. However, my problem here is that KDE has seemingly stopped registering my Brightness up and Brightness down, meaning that I can longer control my display's brightness with the built-in keys. I am using KDE Wayland.

Last edited by HurricanePootis (2025-07-17 07:07:33)

HurricanePootis

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Re: [KDE] [SOLVED]: Laptop Backlight Keys No Longer Work

I just tried KDE X11, and the brightness control no longer works. Also, I forgot to mention, but using wev, I can see that the F6 and F7 keys work normally as function keys. I also tried using linux-lts to no avail

HurricanePootis

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Re: [KDE] [SOLVED]: Laptop Backlight Keys No Longer Work

Just checked out

# libinput debug-events 

. No mention of any backlight keys showing up, but my media keys do work.

seth

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Re: [KDE] [SOLVED]: Laptop Backlight Keys No Longer Work

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=306798

Also please don't bump - edit your previous post to mend it if nobody has yet replied.

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HurricanePootis

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Re: [KDE] [SOLVED]: Laptop Backlight Keys No Longer Work

That is a different issue. They are not able to change their blacklight level no matter what and were having problems due to the amdgou change in the recent kernel. I am able to change my levels and they stay at that level. My problem is that the keyboard shortcut used to do so no longer works

Sorry about the bump.

seth

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Re: [KDE] [SOLVED]: Laptop Backlight Keys No Longer Work

I am able to change my levels and they stay at that level.

How? What are the shortcuts bound to? What if you actually add "amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x40000" to the kernel parameters (in case whatever your shortcuts are bound to operates on absolute values)

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HurricanePootis

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Re: [KDE] [SOLVED]: Laptop Backlight Keys No Longer Work

Welp, funny thing. After making my initial post, I shutdown my laptop and went to go doomscroll on instagram. I just turned it back on to try out that amdgpu kernel command line option you gave and now my keys work again. Must've been an issue that went away with a cold reboot. Thanks for your help.

seth

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Re: [KDE] [SOLVED]: Laptop Backlight Keys No Longer Work

I just turned it back on to try out that amdgpu kernel command line option you gave and now my keys work again.

To be clear, is that  w/ "amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x40000" in place?

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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HurricanePootis

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Re: [KDE] [SOLVED]: Laptop Backlight Keys No Longer Work

That is without the debug mask in place. Thanks