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Bug#846882: libdrm2: wrong scale for backlight with Xfce



On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 10:57:58PM +0100, Alain wrote:
> Package: libdrm2
> Version: 2.4.73-1~bpo8+1
> Severity: normal
> 
> The scale of change of the intensity of the backlight is wrong.
> Changing this is done with the hot keys to increase or decrease.
> 
> The minimum get a black screen.
> cat /sys/class/backlight/eeepc/brigthness
> 0
> cat /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brigthness
> 0
> 
> 1st press on the hot key : get also a black screen.
> cat /sys/class/backlight/eeepc/brigthness
> 1
> cat /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brigthness
> 79787
> 
> 2nd press : get a medium intensity.
> cat /sys/class/backlight/eeepc/brigthness
> 2
> cat /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brigthness
> 159374
> 
> 3rd to 12th press get a normal change of the backlight.
> To : 796875
> But the intensity of the 12th is less than the 11th.
> 
> Expected :
> The minimum should not light off the screen.
> /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brigthness
> 159374
> >From /sys/class/backlight/eeepc/brigthness=1 to 10 or 12, the backlight 
> should change linearly without light off.
> 
> This buggy behaviour was seen only with Xfce, not with lightdm or the Linux 
> console.
> 
> The older libdrm and xserver-xorg work fine.

Which older versions? Do you mean xserver-xorg-video-intel?
I guess it's related to the last upload of xserver-xorg-video-intel to
jessie-backports.

Please attach the Xorg log and the output from dmesg.

Thanks,
Andreas

> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 8.6
>   APT prefers stable-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-0.bpo.1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> 
> Versions of packages libdrm2 depends on:
> ii  libc6              2.19-18+deb8u6
> ii  multiarch-support  2.19-18+deb8u6
> 
> libdrm2 recommends no packages.
> 
> libdrm2 suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information

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