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From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
To: olivier.fambon@free.fr, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: inverted brightness for HP notebook
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 14:30:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9y3wadp.fsf@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1499413864.280261312.1415844696048.JavaMail.root@spooler1-g27.priv.proxad.net>

On Thu, 13 Nov 2014, olivier.fambon@free.fr wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> $ lspci | grep VGA
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation ValleyView Gen7 (rev 0e)
>
> $ sudo lspci -v -s 00:02
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation ValleyView Gen7 (rev 0e) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
> 	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2213
> 	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 107
> 	Memory at 90000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
> 	Memory at 80000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
> 	I/O ports at 3050 [size=8]
> 	Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
> 	Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
> 	Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
> 	Capabilities: [b0] Vendor Specific Information: Len=07 <?>
> 	Kernel driver in use: i915
>
>
> => requires the following to make brightness control keys work as expected
>
> $ cat /etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf 
> options i915 invert_brightness=1

I highly doubt this. This might be true for some gen4 models, but not
Valleyview. Please file a bug on DRM/Intel at [1], and describe the
symptoms.


BR,
Jani.


[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=DRI

>
>
>
>
> tested on ubuntu 14.04 (with added xorg conf below)
>
> $ cat /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf 
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "card0"
>         Driver      "intel"
>         Option      "Backlight"  "intel_backlight"
>         BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
> EndSection
>
>
> Note that the same brightness inversion happened also on ubuntu 14.10 (vanilla install, no xorg conf required)
>
>
> Cheers,
> Olivier.
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-13 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2014-11-13  2:11 ` inverted brightness for HP notebook olivier.fambon
2014-11-13 12:30   ` Jani Nikula [this message]
2015-06-17 14:44     ` Max Manheimer
2015-06-18  6:19       ` Jani Nikula

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