Bug 1483697 - FN f5 + f6 brightness keys not recognicesd under X11 on HP Elitebook 840
Summary: FN f5 + f6 brightness keys not recognicesd under X11 on HP Elitebook 840
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Status: CLOSED EOL
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11
Version: 26
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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high
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Reported: 2017-08-21 18:41 UTC by fhortner
Modified: 2018-05-29 12:24 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-05-29 12:24:38 UTC
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Description fhortner 2017-08-21 18:41:24 UTC
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.91 Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/1.92.917.39
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after upgrading from Fedora 25 to Fedora 26 KDE spin, the brightness control does not work anymore. I can only change the brightness via xbacklight or echoing.

I tried to add 20-intel.conf with:
Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "intel"
    Option      "Backlight"  "intel_backlight"
EndSection

wich did not work.

Then I tried to check if the fn+f5 and fn+f6 keys are recognized by the system with the commands:

acpi_listen as well as
showkey -s

both keys are not recognized under X11 (Gnome and KDE). Other special fn keys are recognices (for example volume up/down).
Then I tried to install Gnome with Wayland. Here brightness changes with the special fn f5/f6 keys works fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. press fn + f5
2. press fn + f5
3. press fn + f5
Actual Results:  
nothing happens

Expected Results:  
brightness shoult be reduced

to find a solution I tried different things:

I tried to add 20-intel.conf with:
Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "intel"
    Option      "Backlight"  "intel_backlight"
EndSection

wich did not work.

Then I tried to check if the fn+f5 and fn+f6 keys are recognized by the system with the commands:

acpi_listen as well as
showkey -s

both keys are not recognized under X11 (Gnome and KDE). Other special fn keys are recognices (for example volume up/down).
Then I tried to install Gnome with Wayland. Here brightness changes with the special fn f5/f6 keys works fine.

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