The brightness controls doesn't work on a MacBook Pro Mid 2015 with a radeon card. There is a upstream bug about this, but it would be great if you could include the patch for this in to the fedora kernel. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105051 Some info from the bug, for the lazy: The radeon driver appears to be setting an incorrect value of -1 for max_brightness in /sys/devices/pnp0/00:03/backlight/gmux_backlight/max_brightness. This computer is a Macbook Pro Retina mid-2015 model 11,5 without any video or acpi related kernel command line options. This prevents GNOME from correctly managing the backlight. You can see this using the following commands: $ cat /sys/devices/pnp0/00:03/backlight/gmux_backlight/max_brightness -1 $ /usr/libexec/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max-brightness Could not get the maximum value of the backlight: got invalid backlight value from /sys/devices/pnp0/00:03/backlight/gmux_backlight/max_brightness $ sudo /usr/libexec/gsd-backlight-helper --set-brightness 500 Could not get the maximum value of the backlight: got invalid backlight value from /sys/devices/pnp0/00:03/backlight/gmux_backlight/max_brightness
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For brightness to work this patch is needed in the kernel driver apple-gmux https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=192601 and setting the bug to need info when all the information is present, is just really lazy and bad way to handle things. And closing the bug because "several have gone stale...", well that is just because nobody is looking at them... maybe should try that sometime.
FYI. I using MacBookPro11,5 with AMD graphic card, with kernel 4.13.3-301.fc27.x86_64. When I add `acpi_backlight=native` to boot command line, the brightness of booted up is changed soft, I mean, the initial brightness become half. --- When I ran `setpci -v -H1 -s 00:01.00 BRIDGE_CONTROL=0`, I can changed brightness via `echo 80 | sudo tee /sys/class/backlight/gmux_backlight/brightness`. --- But I don't know why those works. And, I still cannot changed brightness via gnome settings.
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Moved to f27
$ uname -a Linux RL-Fedora 4.13.16-302.fc27.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 30 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ cat /sys/devices/pnp0/00:03/backlight/gmux_backlight/max_brightness -1 $ /usr/libexec/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max-brightness Could not get the maximum value of the backlight: got invalid backlight value from /sys/devices/pnp0/00:03/backlight/gmux_backlight/max_brightness $ sudo /usr/libexec/gsd-backlight-helper --set-brightness 500 Could not get the maximum value of the backlight: got invalid backlight value from /sys/devices/pnp0/00:03/backlight/gmux_backlight/max_brightness
We apologize for the inconvenience. There is a large number of bugs to go through and several of them have gone stale. As kernel maintainers, we try to keep up with bugzilla but due the rate at which the upstream kernel project moves, bugs may be fixed without any indication to us. Due to this, we are doing a mass bug update across all of the Fedora 27 kernel bugs. Fedora 27 has now been rebased to 4.15.3-300.f27. Please test this kernel update (or newer) and let us know if you issue has been resolved or if it is still present with the newer kernel. If you experience different issues, please open a new bug report for those.
$ uname -a Linux zaphod 4.15.3-300.fc27.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Feb 13 17:02:01 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux snaggen@zaphod ~ $ cat /sys/devices/pnp0/00:03/backlight/gmux_backlight/max_brightness -1 snaggen@zaphod ~ $ /usr/libexec/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max-brightness Could not get the maximum value of the backlight: got invalid backlight value from /sys/devices/pnp0/00:03/backlight/gmux_backlight/max_brightness
Isn't it interesting that the only updates to this issue is automatic systems asking for info or trying to close the bug. No where is there a actual human to be seen, besides us reporters providing any requested information. And this is quite simple, there is a patch in an upstream bug report. If that is not included in to the upstream kernel or the fedora kernel, this issue will not have been solved! But I guess, this issue will soon have resolved itself, since mid 2015 laptops are starting to get old... Still, I can't understand why there is so hard to resolve this issue, when there is a patch avaliable...
Hi, That patch no longer applies as the commit that added the function being patched was reverted[0] last week. From the sound of the commit message, this may fix your brightness control problem. It's currently in 4.16-rc1+ and it's queued for 4.15.5 which should be out by the end of the week. Testing would be greatly appreciated! [0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d6fa7588fd7a8def4c747c0c574ce85d453e3788
$ uname -a Linux zaphod 4.15.5-300.fc27.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Feb 23 17:30:40 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ cat /sys/devices/pnp0/00:03/backlight/gmux_backlight/max_brightness 1023 $ /usr/libexec/gsd-backlight-helper --get-max-brightness 1023 It seems that things are working with the 4.15.5-300.fc27 kernel, so I guess this bug can be closed when that have been released to the public
kernel-4.15.5-300.fc27 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 27. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-a3c4dabf9c
kernel-4.15.5-200.fc26 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 26. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-c710e7893c
kernel-4.15.5-200.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-c710e7893c
kernel-4.15.5-300.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-a3c4dabf9c
kernel-4.15.6-300.fc27 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 27. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-8a2bd7195f
kernel-4.15.6-200.fc26 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 26. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-524fc07fb8
kernel-4.15.6-200.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-524fc07fb8
kernel-4.15.6-300.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-8a2bd7195f
kernel-4.15.6-200.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
kernel-4.15.6-300.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
We apologize for the inconvenience. There is a large number of bugs to go through and several of them have gone stale. Due to this, we are doing a mass bug update across all of the Fedora 27 kernel bugs. Fedora 27 has now been rebased to 4.18.10-100.fc27. Please test this kernel update (or newer) and let us know if you issue has been resolved or if it is still present with the newer kernel. If you have moved on to Fedora 28 or Fedora 29, and are still experiencing this issue, please change the version to Fedora 28 or 29. If you experience different issues, please open a new bug report for those.
Works on Fedora 28 and 29. Cant say anything about fedora 27, since I'm not using that any more.