=========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre@xxxxxxx Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | | Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | | Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44 189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France =========================================================================== > Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2016 at 10:06 PM > From: "Samuel Sieb" <samuel@xxxxxxxx> > To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: brightness > > On 09/03/2016 12:54 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 (rev 06) > > 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M] (rev a2) > > lsmod > > video 40960 3 i915,msi_wmi,nouveau > > > Ugh, it's one of those hybrid systems. Try looking into PRIME. It's > the current method of dealing with these systems using open-source drivers. > > > When I boot, I also use: > > nomodeset vga=normal I can run without vga=normal, but if I run without nomodeset, the graphics never starts and I have to restart the machine. But even without vga=normal, I get the same behavior. > Do you really need this? It is probably part of your problem. > > > /sys/class/backlight > > is empty > > > > None of the fn key works > > > That would explain why you have no backlight control. Try booting > without the "nomodeset" and see if that makes any difference. If not, > then see if you can find an existing bug report for your laptop. You > didn't mention which one you have. > > > I also try to run: > > NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-352.63.run > > > If you really want to use the proprietary NVidia driver, get it from > rpmfusion. At least then, it's easier to revert if necessary and it's > much more likely to work. Do you mean: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia ? The machine is a MSI GE62-6GD > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
