Re: Brightness control in Jessie
Alexsander Farias <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.user.laptop |
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Em Dom, 2015-07-05 às 11:33 -0400, Maurizio Vitale escreveu: > I don't think is necessarily kernel related (although it might be a > diff between kernel and userland). > > On my notebook I have: > > > Linux version 3.13.0-37-generic (buildd@kapok) (gcc version 4.8.2 > (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) ) #64-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 22 21:28:38 UTC 2014 > > > and brightness works, iirc, with the Linux mint live CD and in the > early part of boot (I don't remember the details, but definitely was > working at some point with the same kernel I'm using). It doesn't > work, for me, once gnome and/or the nvidia driver kicks in. > > > Did you try to boot in console only mode and see if you get brightness > working there? > > On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 8:21 AM, stefano gozzi <[email protected]> > wrote: > Have you tried to upgrade the BIOS? Very often NB problems are > bios related... > > > > Il giorno dom 5 lug 2015 14:15 Alexsander Farias > <[email protected]> ha scritto: > > Gab > > I already tried this, but it didn't work. > > > Alexsander > > Em Dom, 2015-07-05 às 07:27 -0400, Gab Gonzales > escreveu: > > Alexsander, > > > > Sudoedit /etc/default/grub and make sure > > > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_backlight=vendor" > > > > is in there! I hope this helps. > > > > —Gab > > > > On 07/04/2015 08:58 AM, Alexsander wrote: > > > > > Friends > > > > > > At the boot time, using advanced options and > selecting the old > > > kernel (3.2.0-4-amd64), I got the brightness keys > back to work. This > > > way, I think it's a kernel related problem. Does > anyone have any > > > idea of how I could fix it or where I must search > for answers? > > > > > > Alexsander > > > > > > > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > > > Subject: > > > Re: Brightness control in Jessie > > > Resent-Date: > > > Sat, 4 Jul 2015 02:24:11 +0000 > > > (UTC) > > > Resent-From: > > > [email protected] > > > Date: > > > Fri, 03 Jul 2015 23:06:05 -0300 > > > From: > > > Alexsander > > > <[email protected]> > > > > > > To: > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > Unfortunately, xbacklight doesn't work in this > machine. Any > > > other idea? > > > > > > Alexsander > > > > > > On 03-07-2015 21:44, Aurelien Martin wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I experienced the same thing with the upgrade on > my lenovo x230. I > > > > lost all my Fn+* keys that were "automaticaly " > bound before > > > > You can tweak the brightness with "xbacklight > +10" bound on a key > > > > I would be interested to know how GNOME or X > manage this > > > > > > > > > > > > 2015-07-04 2:16 GMT+02:00 Alexsander > <[email protected]>: > > > > Hi Friends! > > > > > > > > I've just upgraded from Wheezy to > Jessie in my old HP > > > > Pavilion dv6000 laptop and, apart from a > grub problem, > > > > almost everything ran quite well. After > some exploring, I > > > > noticed two things: my Fn+Brightness > keys don't work > > > > after the upgrade and I couldn't find > any related control > > > > in Gnome. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > > > Alexsander > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > > > > [email protected] > > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". > Trouble? Contact > > > > [email protected] > > > > Archive: > > > > > https://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Gabriie Gonzales > > Cell: (973) 349-0426 > > E-mail: [email protected] > > -- > > Alexsander > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > > -- Hi Maurizio First of all, I would like to thank you for your attention. About your question "Did you try to boot in console only mode and see if you get brightness working there?", I have to say that your observation was very interesting. However, trying to do that, I saw that the brightness control still doesn't work. Alexsander