| Summary: | backlight control not possible through xbacklight, xfce4-power-manager on Lenovo X120e (AMD E-350) | ||||||||||
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| Product: | xorg | Reporter: | gottfried.haider | ||||||||
| Component: | Driver/Radeon | Assignee: | xf86-video-ati maintainers <xorg-driver-ati> | ||||||||
| Status: | RESOLVED NOTOURBUG | QA Contact: | Xorg Project Team <xorg-team> | ||||||||
| Severity: | normal | ||||||||||
| Priority: | medium | CC: | gottfried.haider, mirh | ||||||||
| Version: | 7.6 (2010.12) | ||||||||||
| Hardware: | x86-64 (AMD64) | ||||||||||
| OS: | Linux (All) | ||||||||||
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Created attachment 45656 [details]
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Created attachment 45658 [details]
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The radeon driver has never handled the backlight control. It's handled by acpi. xfce should use sysfs. Thanks for shining some light on this one.. I somehow assumed that the Xrandr way would be the modern way of doing it, but xfce4-power-manager does include code to manipulate the brightness through sysfs - it's just not compiled in (yet). The thing is radeon backlight control is oem specific. Some use the on-GPU controller, others use a platform specific solution, so acpi is the best option since it covers all the bases. Things like hybrid laptops get even more complicated (multiple GPUs sharing the same display hw). The kernel backlight interface seems like the right interface since it doesn't depend on X or randr 1.2 support so it covers just about everything (SoCs, non-randr 1.2 hw, systems without X, etc.). Of course it is very oem specific, and if somebody has the keys to the kingdom, it will have to be the kernel. But why can't amd have a "nice abstraction" on top of that like Intel does? https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2009-August/003795.html It's not a total cakewalk, but they seem to have some good logic to handle all of those priorities https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/3656151/ https://github.com/freedesktop/xorg-xf86-video-intel/commit/268842a47f05508fc7e1c69cd21e8e66a000dcde#diff-2b43a8b27eea45c7840eff73877b4805R177 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/commit/?id=b24e7581bd1e5a0215cb73ec87093ebf03c20278 |
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Created attachment 45655 [details] xorg.log When I trying to set the display brightness through xbacklight, I get: "No outputs have backlight property" Similarly, the backlight plugin in xfce4-power-manager says: "No device found" I can, however, successfully set the brightness of the LCD panel directly via sysfs: echo 1 >/sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness echo 15 >/sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness This is on an up to date xubuntu 11.04 Beta (xserver-xorg 7.6+4ubuntu3, xserver-xorg-video-ati 6.14.0-0ubuntu4, kernel 2.6.39-rc3) on a Lenovo ThinkPad X120e (Radeon HD 6310).