Bug 645841 - No support for xrandr backlight
Summary: No support for xrandr backlight
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drivers
Version: 23
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-10-22 15:53 UTC by Lukáš Tinkl
Modified: 2018-04-11 13:13 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-05-09 07:02:15 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
xorg log (47.75 KB, text/plain)
2010-11-11 18:10 UTC, Lukáš Tinkl
no flags Details
dmesg (97.22 KB, text/plain)
2010-11-11 18:12 UTC, Lukáš Tinkl
no flags Details
/var/log/messages (633.91 KB, text/plain)
2010-11-11 18:16 UTC, Lukáš Tinkl
no flags Details

Description Lukáš Tinkl 2010-10-22 15:53:39 UTC
Description of problem:
The radeon X.org driver doesn't support the xrandr backlight interface.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.13.0-1.fc13.x86_64
libXrandr-1.3.0-5.fc13.x86_64

How reproducible:
[ltinkl@goblin ~]$ xbacklight 
No outputs have backlight property

Expected results:
The radeon driver supports the mentioned backlight interface

Comment 1 Lukáš Tinkl 2010-11-08 18:53:03 UTC
Ping, any info on this?

Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2010-11-09 15:02:13 UTC
Thanks for the bug report.  We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue.

Please add drm.debug=0x04 to the kernel command line, restart computer, and attach

* your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf, if available),
* X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log)
* output of the dmesg command, and
* system log (/var/log/messages)

to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link above.

We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information.

Thanks in advance.

Comment 3 Lukáš Tinkl 2010-11-11 18:10:59 UTC
Created attachment 459814 [details]
xorg log

Comment 4 Lukáš Tinkl 2010-11-11 18:12:59 UTC
Created attachment 459816 [details]
dmesg

Comment 5 Lukáš Tinkl 2010-11-11 18:16:51 UTC
Created attachment 459818 [details]
/var/log/messages

Comment 6 Lukáš Tinkl 2010-11-11 18:17:55 UTC
FYI, hardware in use (from lspci -v):

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3650 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: Lenovo Device 2117
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 50
        Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
        Memory at cfff0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at cff00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [58] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 <?>
        Kernel driver in use: radeon
        Kernel modules: radeon

Comment 7 Lukáš Tinkl 2010-11-25 15:02:48 UTC
Same with F14. Support for xrandr backlight is crucial, as both KDE and Gnome are moving away from using HAL, without the backlight interface there is no way to set the display brightness. FWIW, both nouveau and intel drivers work fine in this aspect.

Comment 8 Ian Pilcher 2011-04-06 16:40:05 UTC
(In reply to comment #7)
> Same with F14. Support for xrandr backlight is crucial, as both KDE and Gnome
> are moving away from using HAL, without the backlight interface there is no way
> to set the display brightness. FWIW, both nouveau and intel drivers work fine
> in this aspect.

nouveau doesn't work here:

[ipilcher@localhost ~]$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [NVS 3100M] (rev a2)

[ipilcher@localhost ~]$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192
LVDS-1 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 193mm
   1920x1080      60.0*+   60.0     50.0  
   1680x1050      60.0  
   1400x1050      60.0  
   1280x1024      59.9  
   1280x960       59.9  
   1152x864       60.0  
   1024x768       59.9  
   800x600        59.9  
   640x480        59.4  
   720x400        59.6  
   640x400        60.0  
   640x350        59.8  
VGA-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

[ipilcher@localhost ~]$ xbacklight
No outputs have backlight property

Comment 9 nomnex 2012-06-08 03:47:51 UTC
Same problem on my notebook with an older ATI 9000 radeon card

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] (rev 02)

[mt@nh28d fujitsu-laptop]$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 960, maximum 4096 x 4096
VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
LVDS connected 1280x960+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   1400x1050      60.0 +   60.0  
   1280x1024      59.9     60.0  
   1280x960       60.0*    59.9  
   1280x854       59.9  
   1280x800       59.8  
   1280x720       59.9  
   1152x768       59.8  
   1024x768      120.1     60.0     59.9  
   960x720       120.0  
   928x696       120.1  
   896x672       120.0  
   800x600       120.0     60.3     59.9     56.2  
   848x480        59.7  
   700x525       120.0  
   720x480        59.7  
   640x512       120.0  
   640x480       120.0     59.9     59.4  
   512x384       120.0  
   400x300       120.6    112.7  
   320x240       120.1  
S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

[mt@nh28d fujitsu-laptop]$ xbacklight
No outputs have backlight property

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Comment 11 Lukáš Tinkl 2012-11-05 10:55:00 UTC
Still happening in F17

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Comment 13 Lukáš Tinkl 2013-07-04 10:54:07 UTC
Still valid afaik...

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Comment 16 Lukáš Tinkl 2015-02-19 15:55:29 UTC
5 years later and a dozen Fedora releases, still valid... Any chance of getting this fixed?

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Comment 20 Jan Kratochvil 2016-05-09 02:54:24 UTC
->libXrandr as Comment 0 was for xorg-x11-drv-ati while I see it on xorg-x11-drv-intel.

libXrandr-1.5.0-2.fc23.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.99.917-19.20151206.fc23.x86_64
xbacklight-1.2.1-2.fc23.x86_64

$ xbacklight 
No outputs have backlight property

Although this command does work:
$ cat /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/max_brightness >/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness

Comment 21 Jan Kratochvil 2016-05-09 02:57:18 UTC
Possible duplicate: kernel: Bug 1278407
kernel-4.3.3-301.fc23.x86_64
(yes, it is old, I have to try a reboot)

Comment 22 Hans de Goede 2016-05-09 07:02:15 UTC
Hi Jan,

Your issue with the xrandr backlight property not working is completely unrelated to this bug report, can you please file a new bug against the kernel and put me in the Cc ?

For starters also include "ls /sys/class/backlight" and "lspci" output please.

Closing this as wontfix as there is no intention to ever add xrandr backlight support to the other xorg drivers.

Regards,

Hans

Comment 23 Jan Kratochvil 2016-05-14 17:43:33 UTC
With kernel-4.4.9-300.fc23.x86_64 xbacklight started to work again so I am not filing any new kernel Bug now.  Sorry for the false reopen.


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