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Bug#846882: wrong scale for backlight with Xfce



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On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 05:05:41PM +0100, Rpnpif wrote:
> Le  6 décembre 2016, Andreas Boll a écrit :
> > xserver-xorg-video-intel has some special backlight handling [2] so
> > it's plausible that an updated package could cause regressions related
> > to backlight.
> 
> > > [    13.881] 
> > > X.Org X Server 1.16.4
> > > Release Date: 2014-12-20
> > > [    13.881] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
> > > [    13.881] Build Operating System: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 i686 Debian
> > > [    13.881] Current Operating System: Linux Asus-901 4.7.0-0.bpo.1-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.7.8-1~bpo8+1 (2016-10-19) i686
> > > [    13.881] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.7.0-0.bpo.1-686-pae root=UUID=2ed3bc82-5cc0-4529-a13c-2e6f80b5b588 ro resume=/dev/sdb1 quiet  
> > 
> > snip
> > 
> > > [    14.063] (II) intel(0): Using Kernel Mode Setting driver: i915, version 1.6.0 20160425
> > > [    14.063] (II) intel(0): SNA compiled: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20161105-1~bpo8+1 (Vincent Cheng <vcheng@debian.org>)  
> > 
> > Reassigning to xserver-xorg-video-intel for now.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Andreas
> > 
> > [1] http://snapshot.debian.org/package/xserver-xorg-video-intel/
> > [2] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/log/?qt=grep&q=backlight
> 
> You are right!
> The 2:2.99.917+git20160706-1~bpo8+1 release works fine but not
> 2:2.99.917+git20161105-1~bpo8+1.
> 
> So it is really a regression on the last release.
> Perhaps a wrong choice of the best iface or about, or other thing.
> 
> My system have two backlight interfaces:
> /sys/class/backlight/eeepc and /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight
> 
> The first is safer but the second permits atomic variations of the
> backlight.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> -- 
> Alain Rpnpif

Please follow
https://01.org/linuxgraphics/documentation/how-report-bugs
to file a bug with intel.  Let us know the bug number for tracking.

Thanks,
Andreas

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