Bug 1133646

Summary: Driver reports it support brightness, but this is a desktop PC
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Elad Alfassa <elad>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-atiAssignee: Hans de Goede <hdegoede>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Elad Alfassa 2014-08-25 17:24:14 UTC
Apparently the driver is reporting brightness is supported on my machine, but it's a desktop PC with a screen connected to it via DVI, it can't adjust brightness via software.

I thought it was a GNOME issue, but apparently the driver is reporting brightness support - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726798 (closed as NOTGNOME)


DVI-0 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (0x92) normal (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 510mm x 287mm
	Identifier: 0x90
	Timestamp:  3257
	Subpixel:   horizontal rgb
	Gamma:      1.0:1.0:1.0
	Brightness: 1.0
	Clones:    
	CRTC:       0
	CRTCs:      0 1 2 3 4 5
	Transform:  1.000000 0.000000 0.000000
	            0.000000 1.000000 0.000000
	            0.000000 0.000000 1.000000
	           filter: 
	_MUTTER_PRESENTATION_OUTPUT: 0 
	EDID: 
		00ffffffffffff0010ac72404c385142
		0f17010380331d78eadd45a3554fa027
		125054a54b00714f8180d1c001010101
		010101010101023a801871382d40582c
		4500fe1f1100001e000000ff004b4638
		37593334434251384c0a000000fc0044
		454c4c205532333132484d0a000000fd
		00384c1e5311000a202020202020000b
	load detection: 1 
		range: (0, 1)
	audio: auto 
		supported: off, on, auto
	scaling mode: None 
		supported: None, Full, Center, Full aspect
	dither: off 
		supported: off, on
	underscan vborder: 0 
		range: (0, 128)
	underscan hborder: 0 
		range: (0, 128)
	underscan: off 
		supported: off, on, auto
	coherent: 1 
		range: (0, 1)
  1920x1080 (0x92) 148.500MHz +HSync +VSync *current +preferred
        h: width  1920 start 2008 end 2052 total 2200 skew    0 clock  67.50KHz
        v: height 1080 start 1084 end 1089 total 1125           clock  60.00Hz
  1280x1024 (0x93) 135.000MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width  1280 start 1296 end 1440 total 1688 skew    0 clock  79.98KHz
        v: height 1024 start 1025 end 1028 total 1066           clock  75.02Hz
  1280x1024 (0x94) 108.000MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width  1280 start 1328 end 1440 total 1688 skew    0 clock  63.98KHz
        v: height 1024 start 1025 end 1028 total 1066           clock  60.02Hz
  1152x864 (0x95) 108.000MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width  1152 start 1216 end 1344 total 1600 skew    0 clock  67.50KHz
        v: height  864 start  865 end  868 total  900           clock  75.00Hz
  1024x768 (0x96) 78.800MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width  1024 start 1040 end 1136 total 1312 skew    0 clock  60.06KHz
        v: height  768 start  769 end  772 total  800           clock  75.08Hz
  1024x768 (0x97) 65.000MHz -HSync -VSync
        h: width  1024 start 1048 end 1184 total 1344 skew    0 clock  48.36KHz
        v: height  768 start  771 end  777 total  806           clock  60.00Hz
  800x600 (0x98) 49.500MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width   800 start  816 end  896 total 1056 skew    0 clock  46.88KHz
        v: height  600 start  601 end  604 total  625           clock  75.00Hz
  800x600 (0x99) 40.000MHz +HSync +VSync
        h: width   800 start  840 end  968 total 1056 skew    0 clock  37.88KHz
        v: height  600 start  601 end  605 total  628           clock  60.32Hz
  640x480 (0x9a) 31.500MHz -HSync -VSync
        h: width   640 start  656 end  720 total  840 skew    0 clock  37.50KHz
        v: height  480 start  481 end  484 total  500           clock  75.00Hz
  640x480 (0x9b) 25.200MHz -HSync -VSync
        h: width   640 start  656 end  752 total  800 skew    0 clock  31.50KHz
        v: height  480 start  490 end  492 total  525           clock  60.00Hz
  720x400 (0x9c) 28.320MHz -HSync +VSync
        h: width   720 start  738 end  846 total  900 skew    0 clock  31.47KHz
        v: height  400 start  412 end  414 total  449           clock  70.08Hz

Comment 1 Hans de Goede 2014-08-26 08:45:12 UTC
Hi,

Can you please run the following 2 commands in a shell:

ls /sys/class/backlight

As well as:

for i in /sys/class/dmi/id/*; do echo $i; cat $i 2> /dev/null; done

And copy and paste the output of both into your next comment here in bugzilla ?

Thanks,

Hans

Comment 2 Elad Alfassa 2014-08-26 10:45:40 UTC
[elad@weatherwax ~]$ ls /sys/class/backlight
acpi_video0
[elad@weatherwax ~]$ for i in /sys/class/dmi/id/*; do echo $i; cat $i 2> /dev/null; done
/sys/class/dmi/id/bios_date
01/20/2014
/sys/class/dmi/id/bios_vendor
American Megatrends Inc.
/sys/class/dmi/id/bios_version
F6
/sys/class/dmi/id/board_asset_tag
To be filled by O.E.M.
/sys/class/dmi/id/board_name
Z87-D3HP-CF
/sys/class/dmi/id/board_serial
/sys/class/dmi/id/board_vendor
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
/sys/class/dmi/id/board_version
x.x
/sys/class/dmi/id/chassis_asset_tag
To Be Filled By O.E.M.
/sys/class/dmi/id/chassis_serial
/sys/class/dmi/id/chassis_type
3
/sys/class/dmi/id/chassis_vendor
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
/sys/class/dmi/id/chassis_version
To Be Filled By O.E.M.
/sys/class/dmi/id/modalias
dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrF6:bd01/20/2014:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnZ87-D3HP:pvrTobefilledbyO.E.M.:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnZ87-D3HP-CF:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
/sys/class/dmi/id/power
/sys/class/dmi/id/product_name
Z87-D3HP
/sys/class/dmi/id/product_serial
/sys/class/dmi/id/product_uuid
/sys/class/dmi/id/product_version
To be filled by O.E.M.
/sys/class/dmi/id/subsystem
/sys/class/dmi/id/sys_vendor
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
/sys/class/dmi/id/uevent
MODALIAS=dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrF6:bd01/20/2014:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnZ87-D3HP:pvrTobefilledbyO.E.M.:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnZ87-D3HP-CF:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:


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I see this is information about my motherboard and such, but I'm not using the onboard video, I'm using a PCI-E videocard

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cape Verde XT [Radeon HD 7770/8760 / R7 250X]

Comment 3 Hans de Goede 2014-08-26 13:32:23 UTC
Thanks for the info.

Hmm, so your Gigabyte motherboard BIOS claims to have brightness support in its acpi-video code.

I've just gotten a number of similar bug reports for different motherboards, so step 1 is going to be to see if there is some common pattern here. Once I've info from all the other cases I'll start a discussion about this on the linux-acpi list, and then we'll see from there.

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