From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: 8086:2a42 [Asus UL80VT] Backlight control does not work with
 Intel integrated card, but there are entries in /sys/class/backlight
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 12:25:26 +0800
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On 12/03/2013 12:53 AM, Guillaume Millet wrote:
> Hello, I report an issue, in attempting to follow the instructions at
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/kernel#KernelTeam.2BAC8-KernelTeamBugPolicies.Overview_on_Reporting_Bugs_Upstream
> 
> [1.] 8086:2a42 [Asus UL80VT] Backlight control does not work with Intel 
> integrated card, but there are entries in /sys/class/backlight
> 
> [2.] The screen brightness control has apparently never worked 
> off-the-shelf on this laptop, Asus UL80VT-A1, which is an NVIDIA Optimus 
> laptop (2 graphic cards). The use of the discrete Nvidia card is managed 
> by Bumblebee (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee). It used to work with 
> the workaround suggested at 
> http://wiki.daviddarts.com/Ubuntu_Maverick_on_the_Asus_UL30VT#Screen_Brightness 
> which modifies asus-brn-down.sh to use the "setpci" method.
> Hotkeys are detected, showkey -s returns 0xe0 0x4c 0xe0 0xcc for Fn+F5 
> and 0xe0 0x54 0xe0 0xd4 for Fn+F6.
> When the hotkeys are triggered, there is no brightness change but the 
> KDE notification pops up with 3 or 4 levels.
> 
> [X.] Other notes
> $ ls /sys/class/backlight/
> acpi_video0  acpi_video1  intel_backlight
> 
> $ cat /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/max_brightness
> 2583660
> 
> $ cat /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness
> 121584

With v3.12, does the intel_backlight interface work?
You can verify this by echoing some value to the brightness file and see
if it has any effect. The value can be echoed is 0 - max_brightness. Be
careful with very small values, it will black your screen.

If it works, you can specify intel_backlight as the control interface
for X by creating a xorg.conf file like this:
$ cat /etc/Xorg/Xorg.conf
Section "Device"
        Option     "Backlight"	"intel_backlight"
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "intel"
	BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection