[PATCH] ACPI: video: force native backlight on Acer Nitro AN515-46
Marcos Paulo Medeiros <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:21:51 -0300
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.acpi.devel |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
The Acer Nitro AN515-46 is a hybrid graphics laptop whose internal
panel is driven by the AMD GPU (Radeon 680M); the discrete NVIDIA GPU
only drives external outputs. The firmware nevertheless advertises the
NVIDIA WMI EC backlight GUID, so the backlight type resolves to
nvidia_wmi_ec. The nvidia-wmi-ec-backlight driver however fails to
probe ("EC backlight control failed: AE_NOT_FOUND") and, since the
backlight type is still nvidia_wmi_ec, amdgpu skips registering its
own backlight device. The result is no backlight device at all,
leaving the brightness keys and the desktop brightness slider
non-functional.
Booting with acpi_backlight=native makes amdgpu register its backlight
interface and brightness control works. Add a DMI quirk to use the
native backlight on this model by default.
Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo Medeiros <[email protected]>
---
drivers/acpi/video_detect.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c b/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
index 5b0dc679e..07755b856 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
@@ -919,6 +919,14 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id video_detect_dmi_table[] = {
DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "OMEN by HP Gaming Laptop 16-n0xxx"),
},
},
+ {
+ .callback = video_detect_force_native,
+ /* Acer Nitro AN515-46 */
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Acer"),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "Nitro AN515-46"),
+ },
+ },
/*
* x86 android tablets which directly control the backlight through
--
2.53.0