Bug 853331

Summary:	impossible to change Display Brightness from keyboard and Energy Saving Setting on Fedora 17 KDE
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Daniele <danielerambaldi>
Component:	kde-workspace	Assignee:	Lukáš Tinkl <ltinkl>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	17	CC:	collura, jgrulich, jreznik, kevin, ltinkl, massi.ergosum, mbriza, rdieter, rnovacek, smparrish, than
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Description Daniele 2012-08-31 06:05:39 UTC

Description of problem:
at the start-up of the system the brightness is at the lowest level so if i try to modify it pressing the dedicated keys on my HP Pavilion DV6 nothing happen but the screen display the level of increase and decrease of the brightness.
also form the Energy Saving Setting if i try to change le level nothing happen.
the only way to increase the level of brightness is form terminal using this command:

su -c "echo 10 > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

3.5.2-3.fc17.x86_64 acpi_video0


How reproducible:

Boot and try set higher brightness with the dedicated keys on the keyboard or using Energy Saving Setting


Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot system
2.login KDE environment
3.ry set higher brightness using key shotcut (F2,F3 or fn+F2, fn+F3)
  
Actual results:
nothing happen, impossible to change brightness

Expected results:
Controling brightness up and down

Comment 1 Martin Bříza 2012-08-31 08:01:15 UTC

Hello,
I have the backlight setting files in the same folder in /sys/ and it's working alright for me on my Lenovo Thinkpad T520 (on Fedora 16 though but this shouldn't matter as KDE SC is the same version in them), so I suppose there is something wrong with your keyboard shortcuts.
Please, have a look in your settings (System settings -> Shortcuts and Gestures -> Global Keyboard Shortcuts -> (KDE Component) KDE Daemon) if it is set properly. There should be items named "Decrease/Increase Screen Brightness" (at least I have them).

Also, I'm reassigning the bug to kde-workspace as it contains both System Settings and PowerDevil.

Comment 2 Daniele 2012-08-31 08:17:11 UTC

Dear Martin,

i tried to modify the shortcuts but the result is the same...
default was Monitor Brightness Down/Up, i tried to change them to F2/F3 or fn+F2/fn+F3 where the functions are placed but nothing...
the strange thing is that on my screen appear the level increasing and decreasing but the brightness doesnt change.

Comment 3 Kevin Kofler 2012-08-31 10:19:24 UTC

The shortcuts are clearly not the problem then (you should reset them to the defaults), the brightness setting code is.

Comment 4 Daniele 2012-08-31 10:24:36 UTC

already reset ....what about brightness setting code?

Comment 5 Kevin Kofler 2012-08-31 10:31:23 UTC

It's a bug in kde-workspace or kdelibs, you can't easily fix that yourself.

Lukáš Tinkl has been looking after that code for a while, so I've assigned the bug to him.

Comment 6 Lukáš Tinkl 2012-09-14 10:07:24 UTC

Please try running "xev" from the console and see what output you get when pressing the brightness keys

I get sth like this:


KeyRelease event, serial 35, synthetic NO, window 0x2200001,
    root 0xaf, subw 0x0, time 3169605, (709,458), root:(713,481),
    state 0x0, keycode 233 (keysym 0x1008ff02, XF86MonBrightnessUp), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

Comment 7 Daniele 2012-09-17 05:48:34 UTC

KeyRelease event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x5400001,
    root 0x162, subw 0x0, time 1455875, (-947,381), root:(69,405),
    state 0x0, keycode 233 (keysym 0x1008ff02, XF86MonBrightnessUp), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

this is what the output said....

Comment 8 Lukáš Tinkl 2012-09-17 10:29:15 UTC

Looks correct then.. can you reproduce it with a newly created user account?

Comment 9 Daniele 2012-09-17 11:33:32 UTC

here the output with a new user account: 

MappingNotify event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    request MappingKeyboard, first_keycode 8, count 248

FocusOut event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x3a00001,
    mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor

FocusIn event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x3a00001,
    mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor

KeymapNotify event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    keys:  1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   
           0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   2   0   0   

KeyRelease event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x3a00001,
    root 0x162, subw 0x0, time 13670634, (-341,495), root:(324,518),
    state 0x0, keycode 233 (keysym 0x1008ff02, XF86MonBrightnessUp), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

also now nothing happened...on the screen the icon brightness appear but the brightness doesn't change.

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