Bug 753415

Summary: I can't modify brightness with HP Elitebook 8560w
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Couret Charles-Antoine <renault>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 17CC: alexey.brodkin, gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, michel, tweety
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Description Couret Charles-Antoine 2011-11-12 11:40:36 UTC
Description of problem:
I have the HP Elitebook 8560w with a nVidia's graphical card :

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GF108 [Quadro 1000M] (rev a1)

But I can't modify the brightness, xbacklight or to modify /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness.

The only solution : the command « xrandr --output LVDS-1 --brightness 1.0 » is functional. But it's not very easy…

And the touch in the keyboard for this is recognize by Gnome 3.2 (an pop-up with brightness image appears) but nothing, the brightness is the same !

Additional info:

I use the nouveau driver.

Comment 1 Michel Lind 2012-09-16 03:04:21 UTC
Thanks for reporting this -- since the problem is not specific to xbacklight, from similar experiences in the past (one of my laptop -- with an *Intel* integrated graphics controller, believe it or not -- had a similar problem) -- this is better handled by kernel developers.

Comment 2 Dave Jones 2012-10-23 15:36:24 UTC
# Mass update to all open bugs.

Kernel 3.6.2-1.fc16 has just been pushed to updates.
This update is a significant rebase from the previous version.

Please retest with this kernel, and let us know if your problem has been fixed.

In the event that you have upgraded to a newer release and the bug you reported
is still present, please change the version field to the newest release you have
encountered the issue with.  Before doing so, please ensure you are testing the
latest kernel update in that release and attach any new and relevant information
you may have gathered.

If you are not the original bug reporter and you still experience this bug,
please file a new report, as it is possible that you may be seeing a
different problem. 
(Please don't clone this bug, a fresh bug referencing this bug in the comment is sufficient).

Comment 3 Couret Charles-Antoine 2012-10-23 20:11:38 UTC
I use Fedora 17 now with 3.6.3 kernel and nothing…
The bug is not corrected.

If you need more information, thanks to communicate that, I don't know the command or pertinent information to correct this bug but I want help people to solve this bug. ;)

Comment 4 Alexey Brodkin 2012-12-13 17:52:31 UTC
Seems like the same issue is being discussed in freedesktop's bugzilla in Xorg/	
Nouveau section: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47965

Comment 5 Josh Boyer 2013-03-14 17:39:44 UTC
Is this still a problem with 3.8.2 in updates-testing?

Comment 6 Couret Charles-Antoine 2013-03-14 17:56:29 UTC
Yes.
Linux DiNozzo 3.8.2-206.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 8 15:03:34 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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