https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516066

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--- Comment #5 from [email protected] ---
(In reply to Sanfod Rockowitz from comment #2)
> It's hard to know what to make of this report.  The special Nvidia driver
> config parms are sometimes needed for I2C to work, but it's odd that the
> latest ddcutil development branch would trigger that need; perhaps it's
> triggered by increased use of /sys.  I've requested additional information
> from YanEx. 
> 
> ddcutil issue https://github.com/rockowitz/ddcutil/issues/583 appears to be
> a permissions configuration problem on the user's nixOS system.
> 
> Issues https://github.com/rockowitz/ddcutil/issues/581 and 
> https://github.com/rockowitz/ddcutil/issues/582 are more critical.   In
> particular, issue #581 hangs powerdevil at startup, because /dev/i2c
> permissions are lost.  It appears that under certain circumstances,
> permission granted by udev token uaccess is not respected by linux api
> access().  Perhaps the problem is arch/cachos specific. I've recoded
> libddcutil to not use access().  Also reported in that issue thread was a
> display change detection hang caused when a laptop display was not enabled
> at startup and then enabled.  Laptop displays don't support DDC/CI, as
> there's no point in libddcutil tracking connection changes for them, so I've
> simply disabled change detection for laptop displays.  (A display reference
> for the laptop display is still reported by libddcutil, so I don't think
> this change affects powerdevil.)
> 
> I've requested more information on issue #582 and haven't received a
> response. The problem appears related to VM usage.
> 
> I'd very much appreciate people testing release 2.2.5 and branch 2.2.6-dev
> with powerdevil on as many distributions and hardware configurations as
> possible.  I've not been able to replicate the failures.  Their resolution
> is currently my top ddcutil priority.

Hi, I am using Gentoo and have ddcutil 2.2.6 installed. I am pretty sure,
having followed the docs, that ddcutil is setup with the correct permissions.
When KDE loads, I have brightness bars in the system try applet for both my
monitors. When I scroll up or down the percentages change, but it takes a few
extra seconds for the brightness to actually adjust. Eventually one of the bars
for one of my monitors disappears and does not come back. I am able to continue
adjusting the bar that remains, but it still always takes quite a few seconds
for the changed value to kick in.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Gentoo
KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.27.0
Qt Version: 6.11.1
Kernel Version: Linux localhost 6.18.37-p1-gentoo-dist #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
Mon Jul  6 18:10:40 EDT 2026 x86_64 AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics
AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Graphics Processor 1: NVIDIA GeForce 1080ti GPU

I have also tested this on Kubuntu, and everything works fine there. Not sure
if it is a configuration issue as can often be the case with Gentoo, or if it
is ddcutil.

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