Bug 97295 - Regression backlight control broken on Dell XPS13 w/ kernel 4.7
Summary: Regression backlight control broken on Dell XPS13 w/ kernel 4.7
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: DRI
Classification: Unclassified
Component: DRM/Intel (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: medium major
Assignee: Intel GFX Bugs mailing list
QA Contact: Intel GFX Bugs mailing list
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Reported: 2016-08-11 10:57 UTC by Martin
Modified: 2016-10-03 11:23 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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i915 platform: IVB
i915 features: display/backlight

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Description Martin 2016-08-11 10:57:39 UTC 
I reported this bug on kernel bugzilla, but assumed it might be wise to inform this bugtracker as well. On kernel 4.7 intel_backlight takes precedence over acpi_video0 as backlight device, breaking backlight support on my IVB XPS13 again (1Hz pulsating brightness).

(New) Kernel bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151731
(Old) Freedesktop bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76276

Quick solution is the same as in comment #15, hard-disable the initialisation of intel_panel_setup_backlight in intel_panel.c
Comment 1 Jani Nikula 2016-08-12 08:06:17 UTC 
I don't recall any recent drm/i915 changes that would cause intel_backlight taking precedence over acpi_video. I presume the changes is on the ACPI side.


(In reply to Martin from comment #0)
> (Old) Freedesktop bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76276

This has no relevance these days.
Comment 2 Martin 2016-08-12 09:37:16 UTC 
Well, the quickhack (disabling initialisation of intel backlight) solves the problem anyway, that's why I mentioned the bug. This laptop was affected back then as well.
Comment 3 linuxchr1s 2016-08-13 08:37:23 UTC 
I got the same issue with MSI GE60-i7. intel_backlight is populated, but changing brightness doesn’t have any effect.
Comment 4 Jani Nikula 2016-09-20 09:46:00 UTC 
Please try current drm-intel-nightly branch of http://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm-intel
Comment 5 fclad 2016-09-24 00:20:51 UTC 
It seems to work in 4.8.0-1-drm-intel-nightly

/sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0 is back and backlight works properly.
Comment 6 yann 2016-09-27 09:40:29 UTC 
Martin, can you also re-test on your side with latest drm-nightly?
Comment 7 Martin 2016-09-28 08:03:58 UTC 
I can confirum that drm-intel-nightly branch of http://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm-intel fixes the backlight problem (correct acpi_video0 device detected).

Graphical glitches are so bad however that this branch is unusable for daily work atm, but that's not the subject of this bug I guess.
Comment 8 Martin 2016-10-03 11:06:14 UTC 
Running freshly compiled 4.8 without any problems. Thx!!
Comment 9 Jani Nikula 2016-10-03 11:23:18 UTC 
(In reply to Martin from comment #8)
> Running freshly compiled 4.8 without any problems. Thx!!

Thanks for the follow-up, closing.

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