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Bug#762824: [linux-image] Backlight control through /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0 no more working on Lenovo IdeaPad



On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 02:45:34PM +0200, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> On gio, set 25, 2014 at 03:08:35 +0200, onetmt wrote:
> > Package: linux-image
> > Version: 3.16-2-amd64
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
> > With 3.16 debian kernels, backlight controller is always at its max
> > value (255); entry in /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0, formerly used to
> > control backlighting, isn't created anymore (only switchable graphic
> > card controller /sys/class/backlight/radeon_bl is created).
> 
> I see the same behaviour on a Toshiba Satellite laptop. Not sure what would be
> useful information to debug this though.

3 seconds after sending this I found a discussion somewhere that suggested to
use the video.use_native_backlight=0 kernel command-line option, and it worked
for me. This is still pretty annoying though, since I didn't need this before.

Cheers

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