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Bug#625211: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: Can no longer control backlight



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On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 00:52 +0200, Carlo Marchiori wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 3.9.8-1
> Followup-For: Bug #625211
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> there still problems related to backlight. At first I could not control it at
> all. Then, following forums and wikis on the net i tries to pass the
> acpi_backlight=vendor parameter to the kernel, and know it work... a little
> bit.
> 
> What works is that all methods, the keyboard special keys, xbacklight, gnome-
> control-center, all udpate the same file, in my case
> /sys/class/backlight/samsung/brightness.
> 
> But. First that file is reset to the maximum value at every restart. I worked
> around this by echoing something into it in /etc/rc.local.
> 
> Second, and worst, when I change the file value at runtime (by any of the above
> methods), the value is applied... sometimes. I mean, I keep changing the value
> and once in while the brightness changes, after 2, 5, 10 seconds, and I have to
> be lucky that it happens at the right brightness. If you just change the value
> without keeping trying, the value is not usually applied.
[...]
> ** Tainted: PO (4097)
>  * Proprietary module has been loaded.
>  * Out-of-tree module has been loaded.
[...]
> fglrx(PO)
[...]

Does it work if you use radeon instead of fglrx?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Any smoothly functioning technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.

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