screen brightness can be adjusted since Linux kernel 3
seems kamals changes made it into the main kernel

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Tony Diep | 416 537 2225

On Oct 25, 2011, at 12:05 AM, Idonmez-l <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Does booting with the
>
> acpi_backlight=vendor
>
> grub option makes any difference?
>
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> Title:
>  Screen brightness can not be adjusted in Lucid with Intel Arrandale
>  graphics
>
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
> Status in openSUSE:
>  Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
>  PROBLEM
>  Hot keys for adjusting screen brightness do not work in Karmic or Lucid for 
> Gateway NV59 laptop with Arrandale Graphics.
>  Under Karmic, workaround was to adjust screen brightness while still in BIOS 
> post.
>  Karmic would boot with the selected screen brightness
>
>  Under Lucid, screen brightness goes to 100% when booting, ignoring 
> brightness set during boot.
>  Hot keys for adjusting brightness do not work.
>
>  RESULTS
>  Tried the following:
>
>  * Setting memory directly under /proc
>  Results: memory for VGA brightness would change but display wouldn't 
> actually change
>
>  CHANGING BOOT PARAMETERS:
>
>  # GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nolapic acpi_backlight=vendor"
>  # above line doesn't solve problem
>  # GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi=off"
>  # above line allows screen brightness but hyperthreading is off
>  GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi=ht"
>  # above line allows screen brightness adjustment at cost of power, core temp?
>  # GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_generic_hotkey"
>  # above line doesn't solve screen brightness problem
>  # GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi=strict"
>  # above line does not solve screen brightness problem
>  # GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_osi=Linux"
>  # above line does not solve screen brightness problem
>  # GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi=noirq"
>  # above line doesn't solve
>  # GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi=noacpi"
>  # above line does not allow screen brightness adjustment
>  # GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_backlight=vendor"
>  # above line does not work
>  # GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="i915.modeset=0"
>  # above line make linux unbootable. Have to book off USB/CD and manually 
> edit grub.conf
>
>  BEST WORKAROUND
>  GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi=ht"
>  # above line allows screen brightness adjustment at cost of power, core temp?
>
>  Linux tdlap6 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:09:38 UTC
>  2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
>  Package: linux-image-2.6.32-21-generic 2.6.32-21.32
>  Regression: Yes
>  Reproducible: Yes
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
>  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
>  AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
>  Architecture: amd64
>  ArecordDevices:
>   **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
>   card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC272 Analog [ALC272 Analog]
>     Subdevices: 1/1
>     Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>  AudioDevicesInUse:
>   USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
>   /dev/snd/controlC0:  tonydiep   1621 F.... pulseaudio
>  CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
>  Card0.Amixer.info:
>   Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf0800000 irq 22'
>     Mixer name    : 'Intel G45 DEVIBX'
>     Components    : 'HDA:10ec0272,1025033d,00100001 
> HDA:14f12c06,10250093,00100000 HDA:80862804,80860101,00100000'
>     Controls      : 26
>     Simple ctrls  : 13
>  Date: Sun May  2 16:39:17 2010
>  HibernationDevice: RESUME=/dev/sda5
>  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
>  MachineType: Gateway NV59
>  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic 
> root=UUID=53103199-f27c-4ef8-879c-bf122b4216fe ro acpi=ht quiet splash
>  ProcEnviron:
>   LANG=en_CA.utf8
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>  RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.34
>  RfKill:
>   0: phy0: Wireless LAN
>    Soft blocked: no
>    Hard blocked: no
>  SourcePackage: linux
>  dmi.bios.date: 11/26/2009
>  dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
>  dmi.bios.version: V1.09
>  dmi.board.name: NV59
>  dmi.board.vendor: Gateway
>  dmi.board.version: Rev
>  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
>  dmi.chassis.type: 10
>  dmi.chassis.vendor: Gateway
>  dmi.chassis.version: Rev
>  dmi.modalias: 
> dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvrV1.09:bd11/26/2009:svnGateway:pnNV59:pvrRev:rvnGateway:rnNV59:rvrRev:cvnGateway:ct10:cvrRev:
>  dmi.product.name: NV59
>  dmi.product.version: Rev
>  dmi.sys.vendor: Gateway
>
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