[Bug 971750] Re: [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be set

2013-11-09 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
[Expired for linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/971750

[Bug 971750] Re: [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be set

2013-09-09 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
This bug is 1 year and a half old, and it's extremely clear to me that nobody has been addressing this except for administrative processing. Administrative processing that typically puts all the burden on the bug reporter, asking him every 6 months to test the latest dev kernel while nobody else

[Bug 971750] Re: [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be set

2013-09-02 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Also removing using hotkeys from bug title, as screen brightness CANNOT BE SET, period. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/971750 Title: [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be

[Bug 971750] Re: [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be set

2013-09-02 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Swâmi Petaramesh, 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 971750] Re: [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-11-19 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Swâmi Petaramesh, to maintain a respectful atmosphere, please follow the code of conduct - http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/conduct . Bug reports are handled by humans, the majority of whom are volunteers, so please bear this in mind. Regarding your comments

[Bug 971750] Re: [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-11-19 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Nothing personal here Christopher, please accept my apologies if your felt hurt by my comment, it wasn't my intention. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/971750 Title: [Toshiba L735-101]

[Bug 971750] Re: [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-11-18 Thread pedro axel madrid
Hi everybody, hi Christopher. I have the same problem on the same model (toshiba L-735) using ubuntu 12.04, and i also tested kernel 3.7.0-rc4-raring as you suggested, but it didn't work, still can't change bright, i have to mention that i didn't applied patches. Aditionally i also found a post

[Bug 971750] Re: [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-11-18 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
pedro axel madrid, if you have a bug in Ubuntu, could you please file a new report by executing the following in a terminal: ubuntu-bug linux For more on this, please see the Ubuntu Kernel team article: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/KernelTeamBugPolicies#Filing_Kernel_Bug_reports the

[Bug 971750] Re: [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-11-18 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Why the f. ask people to file a separate bug report for the exact same problem on the exact same machine ? Just to mark it a duplicate later on ? I've been filing bugs for Ubuntu for 5+ years, and I would say that I'm under the impression that reporting kernel bugs in plain useless. The reporter

[Bug 971750] Re: [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-11-06 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
@Christopher M. Penalver (#60) I tried with Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop Live AMD64 per your request. My Toshiba L735-101 backlight keys have absolutely no visible effect, whether or not I boot with acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor So it seems it wasn't working by that time, either. ** Changed in:

[Bug 971750] Re: [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-11-06 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Swâmi Petaramesh, thank you for testing Lucid. Could you please test http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.7-rc4-raring/ ? ** Tags removed: kernel-bug-exists-upstream-3.6.0-030600rc3 ** Tags added: kernel-bug-exists-upstream-v3.6-rc3 lucid needs-upstream-testing ** Changed in: linux

[Bug 971750] Re: [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-11-06 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Hi Christopher, I'm afraid I cannot test a future RC kernel on this machine. I explain : I use a BTRFS filesystem, and it already happened to me once that, testing a future kernel modified my BTRFS filesystem features somehow, then returning back to usual (older) kernel broke my FS, needing me to

[Bug 971750] Re: [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-11-06 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed ** Description changed: - Hi, - On my Toshiba L735-101, screen brightness keys do not allow screen brightness to be set. Actual brightness is always maximum (i.e. much too bright...). If I boot normally , screen

[Bug 971750] Re: [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-11-05 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Swâmi Petaramesh, thank you for your comments. For regression testing purposes, could you please test for this problem in a Lucid live environment via http://releases.ubuntu.com/lucid/ ? ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Incomplete -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 971750] Re: [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-11-05 Thread Andrew Jones
I have the same laptop (toshiba L735) with the same video card (nvidia 315M) and I also experience this bug. I just tried an ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) live cd which uses this kernel: Linux ubuntu 2.6.32-24-generic #39-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 28 05:14:15 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux The brightness does not

[Bug 971750] Re: [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-11-05 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Andrew Jones, if you have a bug in Ubuntu, could you please file a new report by executing the following in a terminal: ubuntu-bug linux For more on this, please see the Ubuntu Bug Control and Ubuntu Bug Squad article:

[Bug 971750] Re: [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-11-05 Thread Andrew Jones
Continuing my last comment, I tried the kernel parameters with the lucid live cd (linux 2.6.32). Neither of them caused the screen brightness controls to function. acpi_osi=Linux gave me the same results as without. acpi_backlight=vendor caused there to be only an nv_backlight directory in

[Bug 971750] Re: Toshiba L735-101 screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-11-04 Thread bruno pennec
Hi, i've got the same problem with my Toshiba L850D, except that backlight had worked before kernel 3.5.x. I tried with kernel 3.5.0-17 (default 12.10 configuration) and kernel ppa 3.6.5 with fglrx drivers (required to select the right AMD A8 GPU). Backlight keys work (I get the slider) , but

[Bug 971750] Re: Toshiba L735-101 screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-11-04 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
bruno pennec, if you have a bug in Ubuntu, could you please file a new report by executing the following in a terminal: ubuntu-bug linux For more on this, please see the Ubuntu Bug Control and Ubuntu Bug Squad article:

[Bug 971750] Re: [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-11-04 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Swâmi Petaramesh, did this problem not occur in a release prior to Precise? ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged = Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/971750

[Bug 971750] Re: [Toshiba L735-101] screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-11-04 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I believe I didn't have this machine before Precise, so I cannot tell for earlier releases... ** 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 971750] Re: Toshiba L735-101 screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-08-29 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
Tried with latest upstream mainline linux-image-3.6.0-030600rc3-generic , but this kernel simply does not boot on my machine (whatever params I may try) Tried with Quantal Alpha 3 new linux-image-3.5.0-13-generic, and the problem is still the same -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 971750] Re: Toshiba L735-101 screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-08-29 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I notice that playing with brightness keys does have an impact on the value in /proc/acpi/toshiba/lcd (brightness:), however, the actual LCD brightness doesn't change. It also changes /sys/class/backlight/toshiba/actual_brightness but not /sys/class/backlight/toshiba/brightness Attaching

[Bug 971750] Re: Toshiba L735-101 screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-08-29 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
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[Bug 971750] Re: Toshiba L735-101 screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-08-29 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
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[Bug 971750] Re: Toshiba L735-101 screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-08-29 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
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[Bug 971750] Re: Toshiba L735-101 screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-08-29 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
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[Bug 971750] Re: Toshiba L735-101 screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-08-29 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
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[Bug 971750] Re: Toshiba L735-101 screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-08-29 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
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[Bug 971750] Re: Toshiba L735-101 screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-08-29 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
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[Bug 971750] Re: Toshiba L735-101 screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-08-29 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
apport information ** Tags added: running-unity ** Description changed: Hi, On my Toshiba L735-101, screen brightness keys do not allow screen brightness to be set. Actual brightness is always maximum (i.e. much too bright...). If I boot normally , screen brightness keys have no

[Bug 971750] Re: Toshiba L735-101 screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-08-29 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
** Description changed: Hi, On my Toshiba L735-101, screen brightness keys do not allow screen brightness to be set. Actual brightness is always maximum (i.e. much too bright...). If I boot normally , screen brightness keys have no effect at all. If I boot adding the

[Bug 971750] Re: Toshiba L735-101 screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-08-29 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Swâmi Petaramesh, thank you for providing the information. Going backwards in version from v3.6-rc3-quantal, does a mainline kernel from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ exist that allows you to boot and perform the test? ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed =

[Bug 971750] Re: Toshiba L735-101 screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-08-29 Thread Swâmi Petaramesh
I finally could test v3.6-rc3-quantal, only by setting GRUB_TERMINAL=console, then it boots. Anyway it gives no improvement onto brightness settings, that still doesn't work. (OTOH the NVidia drivers won't compile and Compiz will crash in error when running in low-res mode with Nouveau...) **

[Bug 971750] Re: Toshiba L735-101 screen brightness cannot be set using hotkeys

2012-08-29 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Swâmi Petaramesh, the issue you are reporting is an upstream one. Could you please report this problem through the appropriate channel by following the instructions _verbatim_ at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/kernel#KernelTeam.2BAC8-KernelTeamBugPolicies.Overview_on_Reporting_Bugs_Upstream