[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-11-10 Thread Adam Niedling
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[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-11-10 Thread Adam Niedling
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[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-11-10 Thread Adam Niedling
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[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-11-10 Thread Adam Niedling
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[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-11-10 Thread Adam Niedling
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[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-11-10 Thread Adam Niedling
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[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-11-10 Thread Adam Niedling
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[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-11-10 Thread Adam Niedling
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[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-11-10 Thread Adam Niedling
I'm able to adjust the brightness after adding the acpi_backlight=vendor kernel parameter. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/925690 Title: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work

[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-11-10 Thread Adam Niedling
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[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-11-10 Thread Adam Niedling
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[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-11-10 Thread Adam Niedling
echo 8 /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness does change the backlight. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/925690 Title: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an

[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-11-10 Thread Adam Niedling
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[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-11-10 Thread Adam Niedling
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[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-11-10 Thread Adam Niedling
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[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-11-10 Thread Adam Niedling
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[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-11-10 Thread Adam Niedling
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[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-11-10 Thread Adam Niedling
I'm NOT able to adjust the brightness after adding the video.use_bios_initial_backlight=0 kernel parameter. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-11-10 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
** Description changed: I'm using a freshly installed Saucy x64. When I press fn+left/right arrow keys the brightness of the screen doesn't change and there is no bar appearing on the top right corner indicating the change in brightness. This laptop has two video cards: nVidia 540M and an

[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-11-03 Thread Adam Niedling
Christopher: I'm not using Bumblebee anymore. I tried to disable the nvidia card in BIOS but adjusting the brightness still does not work. However the brightness bar got visible in the top right corner when I'm trying to adjust it. There is no bar with the nvidia card enabled. ** Description

[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-11-03 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Adam Niedling, continuing to keep the nvidia card in the BIOS disabled, could you please provide the missing information following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Debugging/Backlight ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-11-02 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Adam Niedling, as per http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/drivers an update is available for your BIOS (1.21). If you update to this following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BiosUpdate , does it change anything? If not, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the output of

[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-11-02 Thread Adam Niedling
$ sudo dmidecode -s bios-version sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date V1.21 08/09/2012 My BIOS seems up-to-date to me, that's why I've removed the bios-outdated tag. I will try the upstream kernel later. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-11-02 Thread Adam Niedling
$ uname -a Linux ultraviolence 3.12.0-031200rc7-generic #201310271935 SMP Sun Oct 27 23:37:06 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Adjusting the brightness still does not work. ** Tags removed: bios-outdated-v1.21 needs-upstream-testing ** Tags added: kernel-bug-exists-upstream-3.12-rc7 **

[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-11-02 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Adam Niedling, if you disable the nvidia card in BIOS, and uninstall bumblebee, does it allow you to adjust the brightness? ** Tags added: latest-bios-v1.21 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-11-01 Thread Adam Niedling
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[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-11-01 Thread Adam Niedling
I just tested it with Ubuntu 13.10 (Kernel 3.11.0-12-generic x64) and the issue is still present. I don't see the point of testing it with 3.12 rc7 since there hasn't been any activity upstream since the last 6 months. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed ** Tags

[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-08-19 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Adam Niedling, could you please confirm this issue exists with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ . If the issue remains, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal

[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2013-04-28 Thread Adam Niedling
The issue is still present in Ubuntu 13.04. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/925690 Title: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop To manage

[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2012-05-03 Thread Tim
I've been affected by this bug in Ubuntu 10.04 and now Xubuntu 12.04. So this bug has existed at least since kernel 2.6. I have an Acer Aspire 7736Z laptop. The Fn-left/right arrow keys do bring up the sun icon and the brightness slider moves onscreen when I make like adjusting it, but the

[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2012-05-03 Thread Adam Niedling
It's already passed upstream if you take a look at it. Are you sure it's: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor and not: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor ?? For me the latter one works. -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2012-02-15 Thread Adam Niedling
I reported this bug upstream: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42777 ** Bug watch added: Linux Kernel Bug Tracker #42777 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42777 ** Also affects: linux via http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42777 Importance: Unknown

[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2012-02-15 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: linux Status: Unknown = Confirmed ** Changed in: linux Importance: Unknown = Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/925690 Title: Screen brightness adjust

[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with a Acer 5755G laptop

2012-02-02 Thread Adam Niedling
** Summary changed: - Brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with a Acer 5755G laptop + Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with a Acer 5755G laptop -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with a Acer 5755G laptop

2012-02-02 Thread Brad Figg
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/925690 Title: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with a Acer 5755G laptop To

[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2012-02-02 Thread Adam Niedling
** Summary changed: - Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with a Acer 5755G laptop + Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2012-02-02 Thread Joseph Salisbury
Would it be possible for you to test the latest upstream kernel? It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Please test the latest v3.3 kernel[1] (Not a kernel in the daily directory). Once you've tested the upstream

[Bug 925690] Re: Screen brightness adjust hotkeys don't work with an Acer 5755G laptop

2012-02-02 Thread Adam Niedling
I tested it with the latest kernel and it still doesn't work. $ uname -a Linux ultraviolence 3.3.0-030300rc2-generic #201201311735 SMP Tue Jan 31 22:36:50 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed ** Tags removed: