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Bug#701148: linux-image-3.7-trunk-amd64: Regression - brightness controls do not work.



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On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 11:31 +0800, David M Smith wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 3.7.8-1~experimental.1
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> If I boot the linux-image-3.6-trunk-amd64, the brightness controls work just
> fine.
> 
> Whenever I boot the linux-image-3.7-trunk-amd64 my Fn+F4 and Fn+F5 brightness
> controls on my laptop do not work.
> 
> According to xev, the events are getting registered but the brightness of the
> LCD screen doesn't change.
[...]
> [    8.537615] ACPI: Video Device [PEGP] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
> [    8.537709] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/device:2b/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input11
> [    8.537835] [Firmware Bug]: Duplicate ACPI video bus devices for the same VGA controller, please try module parameter "video.allow_duplicates=1"if the current driver doesn't work.
[...]

This is interesting.  Can you try adding 'video.allow_duplicates=1' to
the kernel command line, as suggested?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap.

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