Bug 710316

Summary: [REDWOOD] laptop dims the screen when reaching boot screen
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: atlee <atlee>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-atiAssignee: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 15CC: jglisse, mcepl, xgl-maint
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Description atlee 2011-06-03 03:02:34 UTC
Let me be more specific I can re-produce this every time i switch on my
machine, I can reproduce this problem after clean install.

Operating system: Fedora 15 x86_64
HP Pavilion DV6-3132TX
6GB DDR3
640GB SATA
ATI 5650

Test one:
1. Turn on machine
2. See the loading screen, as soon the logo shows the screen flicks from full
brightness to a very dimmed screen

My guess is video card or power management?

Test two:
1. Turn on machine
2. See the loading screen, as soon the logo shows the screen flicks from full
brightness to a very dimmed screen
3. Log into KDE
4. After loading, it changes screen brightness to full, laptop brightness keys
work

Test three:
1. Turn on machine
2. See the loading screen, as soon the logo shows the screen flicks from full
brightness to a very dimmed screen
3. Log into Gnome, screen dimmed does not change
4. Log out Gnome, Log into KDE
5. Brightness goes to full

Test four:
1. Turn on machine
2. See the loading screen, as soon the logo shows the screen flicks from full
brightness to a very dimmed screen
3. Log into KDE
4. After loading, it changes screen brightness to full, laptop brightness keys
work
5. Log out KDE, Log into Gnome
6. Full brightness

This above was tested using the built in drivers for ATI, The Open source ones
that come stock standard.

If i install ATI Proprietry then i lose all controls and brightness no matter
what desktop.

If i install akmod or kmod drivers then i lose all controls and brightness no
matter what desktop.

My laptop also runs an external monitor which shows full brightness if this
situation changes anything.

What should of happened:
Upon loading the KDE, Gnome, XFCE desktop enviroments the laptop screen should
switch to full brightness.

thanks

Comment 1 atlee 2011-06-05 14:21:18 UTC
Not sure if it's a bug however all laptops with my model will clean install fedora 15 and have the same problems.

I resolved this issue by adding the below to my grub.conf file:
acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor

Now computer boots full brightness. though brightness keys do not work.

Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2011-06-06 20:50:56 UTC
Thanks for the bug report.  We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue.

Please remove all ACPI settings, and add drm.debug=0x04 to the kernel command line, restart computer, and attach

* your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf, if available),
* X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log)
* output of the dmesg command, and
* system log (/var/log/messages)

to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link above.

We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information.

Thanks in advance.

Comment 3 atlee 2011-06-11 00:45:33 UTC
Created attachment 504225 [details]
dmesg

dmesg as requested

Comment 4 atlee 2011-06-11 00:46:21 UTC
Created attachment 504226 [details]
messages log

messages log as requested

Comment 5 atlee 2011-06-11 00:47:04 UTC
Created attachment 504227 [details]
xorg logs new and old

xorg logs current and old

Comment 6 atlee 2011-06-11 00:49:49 UTC
Hi Matej Cepl, Xorg.conf not available. but other files were. Please remember that the computer boots dimmed, XFCE and Gnome does not change brightness but KDE does switch on brightness. I can add acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor to grub.conf to fix the brightness but then my hotkeys do not work, the brightness is locked.

Hope this is enough info required.

Josh

Comment 7 atlee 2011-06-21 02:40:10 UTC
Hi Matej Cepl,

Will this be looked at or fixed with a patch? Let me know if you require any more information.

Kind regards
Josh

Comment 8 Matěj Cepl 2011-07-27 00:44:46 UTC
Created attachment 515385 [details]
dmesg.txt from the archive

Comment 9 Matěj Cepl 2011-07-27 00:44:58 UTC
Created attachment 515386 [details]
messages from the archive

Comment 10 Matěj Cepl 2011-07-27 00:45:05 UTC
Created attachment 515387 [details]
Xorg.0.log from the archive

Comment 11 Matěj Cepl 2011-07-27 00:45:13 UTC
Created attachment 515388 [details]
Xorg.0.log.old from the archive

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