Description of problem: Unable to adjust screen brightness after suspending machine. Tried keyboard fn keys as well as the screen brightness software controls. Worked fine before suspend, after suspend nothing happens. Trying the 'yum reinstall bash' hack doesn't help. Machine is a Lenovo Thinkpad W520 with nVidia Quadro 1000 graphics in descrete (nvidia) graphics mode booted with noapic kernel flag and using the standard nouveau driver running fresh, stock, fully yum updated installs of f16 and f17. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 16 and 17 How reproducible: ever time Steps to Reproduce: 1. suspend to ram 2. try to adjust screen brightness 3. Actual results: nothing happens Expected results: screen brightness to change Additional info:
*** Bug 796904 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
As of 6/30/12 this problem still exists on f17. I'm fully yum updated running 3.4.3-1.fc17.x86_64 kernel.
Same problem here on F16 with kernel-3.4.2-1.fc16.x86_64. The problem only occurs when using the Nvidia hardware; if Intel is selected in the BIOS, brightness controls work. (It looks like Intel mode unfortunately does no VGA output, that's the only reason I'm trying Nvidia...)
I can confirm this problem occurs in Fedora 18 x86_64 that's been updated to the yum repositories for Fedora as of 2/15/2013. laptop: Toshiba P945-P440, version: PT43NU-003001 baseboard version (from dmidecode): A0 BIOS: version 2.00 release date: 5/24/2012 kernel version 3.7.7-201.fc18.x86_64 Steps: 1) boot laptop as usual, enter into KDE as user, KDE laptop brightness plasma controls work as expected. 2)use KDE suspend to RAM control on desktop (currently using the plasma widget) to suspend laptop 3) laptop suspends as expected 4) unsuspend by pressing power button 5) KDE brightness controls no longer work 6) running dmesg finds this error which is always associated to brightness failure (this error is never in dmesg unless at least one suspend cycle has occurred): [ 1.312655] ACPI Error: [GTF0] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20120913/psargs-359) [ 1.312658] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.PRT0._SDD] (Node ffff88022387ecd0), AE_NOT_FOUND (20120913/psparse-536) [ 1.312697] ACPI Error: [GTF0] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20120913/psargs-359) [ 1.312699] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.PRT0._GTF] (Node ffff88022387ecf8), AE_NOT_FOUND (20120913/psparse-536) [ 1.312793] ata1.00: ATA-9: SAMSUNG SSD 830 Series, CXM03B1Q, max UDMA/133 [ 1.312795] ata1.00: 250069680 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA [ 1.313069] ACPI Error: [GTF0] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20120913/psargs-359) [ 1.313071] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.PRT0._SDD] (Node ffff88022387ecd0), AE_NOT_FOUND (20120913/psparse-536) [ 1.313107] ACPI Error: [GTF0] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20120913/psargs-359) [ 1.313110] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.PRT0._GTF] (Node ffff88022387ecf8), AE_NOT_FOUND (20120913/psparse-536)
Note: cat /proc/cmdline was: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.7.7-201.fc18.x86_64 root=UUID=3a2a1ac7-2def-48bb-bb91-641829a581f0 ro rootflags=subvol=root acpi_sleep=s3_beep rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0 rd.luks=0 vconsole.keymap=us "acpi_sleep=s3_beep" was attempted to try to work around this after reading on a forum post that this option helped work around this. It didn't help in my case. Brightness control doesn't work after suspend with or without that option in my testing.
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The same Fedora 18 laptop I reported as showing this bug in comments 4 & 5 works now that the kernel has moved on (using 3.9.8-200.fc18.x86_64 ) now. Either the newer kernels fix it or some intervening package fix did it.
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