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Patino
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Screen Brightness

#1 Post by Patino »

Is it possible to control or at least reduce the screen brightness without installing amdgpu firmware in Debian 9 gnome 3.22.2 !!
no backlight control bar appear after fresh install.
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thanks
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Re: Screen Brightness

#2 Post by Wheelerof4te »

I think not, the same way you can't control brightness on Windows if you don't install correct GPU driver.

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Re: Screen Brightness

#3 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

Please post the output of

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find /sys/class/backlight
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Re: Screen Brightness

#4 Post by stevepusser »

Sure, just use sunglasses. 8)
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#5 Post by Patino »

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:Please post the output of

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find /sys/class/backlight
the output /sys/class/backlight

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#6 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

^ Then, no, you cannot control the backlight level.
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#7 Post by Patino »

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:^ Then, no, you cannot control the backlight level.
ok thanks man :(

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Re: Screen Brightness

#8 Post by arochester »

WARNING! I don't use Gnome - so I may not know that I am talking about!

Have you seen https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help ... ss.html.en ?

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#9 Post by Wheelerof4te »

You should also be able to set it just by clicking the items in the top right. But in ored to do that with AMD cards, you need firmware-amd-graphics package installed. Why wouldn't you?

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apt install firmware-amd-graphics
Reboot.

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#10 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

Wheelerof4te wrote:you need firmware-amd-graphics package installed. Why wouldn't you?
The OP is using Debian so perhaps blobs are an issue for them.

Having said that, they should have bought hardware that doesn't require them instead, I suppose.
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#11 Post by Patino »

Wheelerof4te wrote:You should also be able to set it just by clicking the items in the top right. But in ored to do that with AMD cards, you need firmware-amd-graphics package installed. Why wouldn't you?

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apt install firmware-amd-graphics
Reboot.
I dont want to install it coz after installing the amd firmware i am getting this error [FAILED] Failed to start Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of backlight:acpi_video0 ,after alot of working around and searching i think i could get rid of it by editing the parameter of GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT to "quiet acpi_backlight=vendor" in /etc/default/grub file ,which is fine but new errors appear
[ 13.765856] [drm:amdgpu_vce_ring_test_ib [amdgpu]] *ERROR* amdgpu: IB test timed out.
[ 13.765984] [drm:amdgpu_ib_ring_tests [amdgpu]] *ERROR* amdgpu: faild testing IB on ring 12 (-110).
[ 13.766107] [drm:amdgpu_device_init [amdgpu]] *ERROR* ib ring test faild (-110).
any idea about that !!

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#12 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

Patino wrote:after installing the amd firmware i am getting this error [FAILED] Failed to start Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of backlight:acpi_video0
You should have included that information in the OP.

Remove your fix from grub.cfg and try this command instead:

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# systemctl mask systemd-backlight@backlight\:acpi_video0
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#13 Post by Patino »

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:
Patino wrote:after installing the amd firmware i am getting this error [FAILED] Failed to start Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of backlight:acpi_video0
You should have included that information in the OP.

Remove your fix from grub.cfg and try this command instead:

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# systemctl mask systemd-backlight@backlight\:acpi_video0
doesnt help ,still getting same errors

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#14 Post by Wheelerof4te »

Try to reinstall using non-free image. In order for firmware to be properly loaded, you need to burn it as a dd image. Refer to the installation manual on how to do that.
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unof ... ree/amd64/

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#15 Post by stevepusser »

Wheelerof4te wrote:Try to reinstall using non-free image. In order for firmware to be properly loaded, you need to burn it as a dd image. Refer to the installation manual on how to do that.
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unof ... ree/amd64/
That's a very odd statement; what about the thousands of posts on this forum where the user added firmware successfully by installing it from the non-free repo or a .deb file?
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