Bug 26756 (Roy) - Cannot alter brightness as normal user
Summary: Cannot alter brightness as normal user
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG
Alias: Roy
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Driver/nouveau (show other bugs)
Version: 7.4 (2008.09)
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
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Assignee: Nouveau Project
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
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Reported: 2010-02-25 11:29 UTC by Roy
Modified: 2011-05-30 16:49 UTC (History)
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Description Roy 2010-02-25 11:29:47 UTC 
As a normal user using nouveau I cannot alter the screen brightness of my laptop. Not using the function keys, not echo'ing the desired value to /proc/acpi/video/VGA1/LCDD/brightness. I can however become root with su, and then echo the desired value to this procfs node.

ls -alz shows:
-rw-r--r--. root root system_u:object_r:proc_t:s0      brightness

When I use Intel graphics on the exact same hardware (hybrid graphics - BIOS option), I can use the function keys for altering brightness.

Hardware: Asus UL50Vg with hybrid graphics (Intel intergrated/Geforce G210M).
OS: Fedora 12, all updates installed.
Comment 1 Roy 2011-05-30 16:49:28 UTC 
Related to Asus ACPI, not nouveau

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