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Hi,
I have a problem with KDE and setting the backlight brightness. The problem is the following: When I boot the laptop and log in on a tty I can change the backlight brightness via keyboard shortcut and setting /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness. However when I start KDE via startx, then none of both options longer work. Also using the slider in the KDE power manager does not work. Even if I stop X and go back to a tty, I cannot change the backlight brightness anymore.
The laptop is a HP Compaq 8710w, if it helps.
Anyone an idea what the issue could be?
Thanks in advance,
Defolos
Last edited by Defolos (2012-10-21 15:20:48)
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I found out that this is not only a KDE problem, also after starting GNOME I cannot change the backlight brightness.
As far as I remember I upgraded the proprietary nvidia driver yesterday, could it be a problem with the driver?
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I am having the same problem. I can change backlight with fn+brightness up/down keys, but i am not able to change it via power manager in KDE. I also did upgrade the nvidia proprietary driver yesterday. This could be nvidia related, i guess.
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You could try this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … ss_Control maybe it will work for you, unfortunately it didn't for me.
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Tried it, no joy
Edit : dim display and switch off display doesn't work either.
Last edited by Selo (2012-10-21 20:25:52)
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same probleme here probook 5320m
also volume fn keys stopped working
setting brightness from gnome settings works
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It's a nvidia releated bug for sure. I downgraded my driver and everything works now. If you have not cleaned pacman cache following code should also work for you,
sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-304.51-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz /var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-utils-304.51-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
reboot for changes to take affect.
Same problem is also discussed here [SOLVED*][Samsung RV520]NVIDIA driver 304.60 Brightness problem
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I had the same problem. But I narrowed it down a bit by looking at /var/log/messages.log
$ tail -f /var/log/messages.log
$ # use the brightness buttons
Oct 22 13:58:06 Fenix logger: ACPI group/action undefined: video/brightnessdown / BRTDN
Oct 22 13:58:06 Fenix logger: ACPI group/action undefined: video/brightnessup / BRTUP
I'm not sure how this used to function, but I'm assuming ACPI intercepts these events now and doesn't do anything with it.
This https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Talk:MacBookPro helped me to get to a solution. Make sure you replace the BRIGHTNESS_BASE variable by the one your system uses. (probably /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0)
The author of the wiki mentions this is a "quick/dirty" fix. If somebody has a better solution, please let me know.
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