Bug 492458 - backlight works only after suspend on Intel KMS
Summary: backlight works only after suspend on Intel KMS
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jonathan Blandford
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
: 493376 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-03-26 20:13 UTC by Tomasz Torcz
Modified: 2013-04-02 04:22 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-06-28 11:34:48 UTC
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Description Tomasz Torcz 2009-03-26 20:13:46 UTC
Description of problem:
I have Thinkpad T400 with G45 graphics (Intel X4500MHD). Freshly after boot, backlight regulation doesn't work. Echo'ing any values between 0 and 15 to /sys/devices/virtual/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness have no effect on actual backlight, but values in brightness and actual_brightness files are changed.
Keyboard key for changing backlight have no effect, moving slider in GNOME Backlight Applet have no effect.
Additionally, xbacklight reports:

% xbacklight
No outputs have backlight property

Curiously, after succesfull suspend-to-ram and resume, it start to work. Keyboard button and backlight applet change brightness. But as STR got very unreliable with F11, I'm reluctant to suspend and resume after each boot.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
% dmesg | grep -C1 backlig
thinkpad_acpi: radio switch found; radios are enabled
thinkpad_acpi: This ThinkPad has standard ACPI backlight brightness control, supported by the ACPI video driver
thinkpad_acpi: Disabling thinkpad-acpi brightness events by default...
--
Registered led device: tpacpi::standby
thinkpad_acpi: Standard ACPI backlight interface available, not loading native one.
input: ThinkPad Extra Buttons as /devices/virtual/input/input10

Linux sandworm.fordon.pl.eu.org 2.6.29-9.fc11.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 26 10:03:10 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.6.0-14.fc11.x86_64

Comment 1 Tomasz Torcz 2009-03-29 13:13:24 UTC
Simiar problem reported here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/29/53
Can we got newer xorg-x11-drv-intel in rawhide?

Comment 2 Tomasz Torcz 2009-03-30 21:57:05 UTC
xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.6.99.902-1.fc11.x86_64  and the problem still exists.

Comment 3 Matthew Stanton 2009-04-02 20:09:35 UTC
*** Bug 493376 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Matthew Stanton 2009-04-03 23:09:24 UTC
problem appears to be fixed after today's updates.

Comment 5 Tomasz Torcz 2009-04-07 19:58:05 UTC
Yes, I can confirm that. Thanks for fixing.

Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 12:42:40 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

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Comment 8 Bug Zapper 2010-04-27 13:20:29 UTC
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Comment 9 Bug Zapper 2010-06-28 11:34:48 UTC
Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is 
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