[Bug 1862835] Re: Unable to change laptop screen brightness or keyboard backlighting

2020-02-11 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Please try reading and writing new values to: /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness instead of 'actual_brightness'. The to find out the value corresponding to 100% brightness for your LCD panel look in the file 'max_brightness'. -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 1862835] Re: Unable to change laptop screen brightness or keyboard backlighting

2020-02-11 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Please try reading and writing new values to: /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness instead of 'actual_brightness'. To find out the value corresponding to 100% brightness for your LCD look in the file 'max_brightness'. ** Summary changed: - Unable to change laptop screen brightness

[Bug 1862835] Re: Unable to change laptop screen brightness or keyboard backlighting

2020-02-11 Thread Tim McNamara
I've removed the NVIDIA drivers and configured Ubuntu to use Nouveau. sudo apt-get remove --purge '^nvidia-.*' sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop echo 'nouveau' | sudo tee -a /etc/modules This hasn't fixed the situation. Altering the settings does not affect the actual screen brightness (o

[Bug 1862835] Re: Unable to change laptop screen brightness or keyboard backlighting

2020-02-11 Thread Daniel van Vugt
First a small warning: You seem to be using the 'oibaf' graphics PPA which is not supported and is known to cause bugs. However I think it's unlikely that's relevant here. Second, other people are already reporting that having the Nvidia driver installed has broken their brightness control. See bu

[Bug 1862835] Re: Unable to change laptop screen brightness or keyboard backlighting

2020-02-11 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Also, have a look in /sys/class/backlight/... and see if you have any working entries that allow you to control the brightness by writing to them. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1862835

[Bug 1862835] Re: Unable to change laptop screen brightness or keyboard backlighting

2020-02-11 Thread Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot
** Package changed: ubuntu => xorg (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1862835 Title: Unable to change laptop screen brightness or keyboard backlighting To manage notifications a