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I have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti with the proprietary blob driver, kernel 5.18.15, and a Dell Ultrasharp U3219Q 32" monitor.
I would like to be able control the monitor screen backlight. I followed the instructions from the wiki and I can control the backlight with ddcutil:
$ sudo ddcutil capabilities | grep "Feature: 10"
[sudo] Mot de passe de azmeuk :
Feature: 10 (Brightness)
$ sudo ddcutil getvcp 10
VCP code 0x10 (Brightness ): current value = 50, max value = 100
$ sudo ddcutil setvcp 10 25
# actually darkens the screen brightness
$ sudo ddcutil setvcp 10 50
# actually lights the screen brightness
In order to be able to user backlight utilities,
I installed ddcci-driver-linux-dkms
I added myself to the i2c and video groups
I copied the /usr/share/ddcutil/data/90-nvidia-i2c.conf in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/, because the wiki instruction tell it is needed
I copied /usr/share/ddcutil/data/45-ddcutil-i2c.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d so I can access the device files without being root
Rebooted, just to be sure
I enabled the ddcci_backlight kernel module
sudo lsmod | grep "ddcci\|i2c_dev"
i2c_dev 24576 0
ddcci_backlight 20480 0
ddcci 49152 1 ddcci_backlight
However /sys/class/backlight is empty, and grep RegistryDwords /proc/driver/nvidia/params returns empty value, maybe suggesting that the nvidia fix did not work? With /sys/class/backlight being empty, none of the backlight utilities work.
I am not sure where to search from here. Do you have a clue?
Last edited by azmeuk (2022-08-03 11:32:27)
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dkms modules are generally only compiled when the corresponding linux-headers are installed, is that the case? Did you check lsmod whether the ddcci kernel module is loaded?
Did you read the comments in https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ddcc … ent-874069 ?
Last edited by V1del (2022-08-03 11:06:50)
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dkms modules are generally only compiled when the corresponding linux-headers are installed, is that the case? Did you check lsmod whether the ddcci kernel module is loaded?
Yes. I edited the post to paste the lsmod results.
Did you read the comments in https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ddcc … ent-874069 ?
If I understand correctly, this comment gives a trick to load the kernel module at startup for convenience. At the moment I just would like to get this work at least once, event if it is not persistent.
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I have the same issue here. ddcci and ddcci_backlight are both loaded according to lsmod, but backlight utilities (e.g. light) cannot detect my monitor
Last edited by fh2ctm (2022-08-10 18:30:19)
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However /sys/class/backlight is empty
README.md for ddcci-driver-linux says:
For each monitor that supports accessing the Backlight Level White or the Luminance property, a backlight device of type "raw" named like the corresponding ddcci device is created. You can find them
in `/sys/class/backlight/`.
But
Feature: 10 (Brightness)
is not a Backlight control. It is brightness control which is also available from monitor's menu.
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This is an issue with the nvidia driver. Fortunately, you can force the ddcci backlight driver to detect an i2c device manually.
There's a workaround that involves creating a udev rule to trigger forced detection once the i2c devices become active. Take a look at this issue in the driver's GitLab repo, it has more details: https://gitlab.com/ddcci-driver-linux/d … _151296583
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