Re: 8086:2a42 [Asus UL80VT] Backlight control does not work with Intel integrated card, but there are entries in /sys/class/backlight

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Le 03/12/2013 05:25, Aaron Lu a écrit :
On 12/03/2013 12:53 AM, Guillaume Millet wrote:
Hello, I report an issue, in attempting to follow the instructions at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/kernel#KernelTeam.2BAC8-KernelTeamBugPolicies.Overview_on_Reporting_Bugs_Upstream

[1.] 8086:2a42 [Asus UL80VT] Backlight control does not work with Intel
integrated card, but there are entries in /sys/class/backlight

[2.] The screen brightness control has apparently never worked
off-the-shelf on this laptop, Asus UL80VT-A1, which is an NVIDIA Optimus
laptop (2 graphic cards). The use of the discrete Nvidia card is managed
by Bumblebee (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee). It used to work with
the workaround suggested at
http://wiki.daviddarts.com/Ubuntu_Maverick_on_the_Asus_UL30VT#Screen_Brightness which modifies asus-brn-down.sh to use the "setpci" method.
Hotkeys are detected, showkey -s returns 0xe0 0x4c 0xe0 0xcc for Fn+F5
and 0xe0 0x54 0xe0 0xd4 for Fn+F6.
When the hotkeys are triggered, there is no brightness change but the
KDE notification pops up with 3 or 4 levels.

[X.] Other notes
$ ls /sys/class/backlight/
acpi_video0  acpi_video1  intel_backlight

$ cat /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/max_brightness
2583660

$ cat /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness
121584
With v3.12, does the intel_backlight interface work?
You can verify this by echoing some value to the brightness file and see
if it has any effect. The value can be echoed is 0 - max_brightness. Be
careful with very small values, it will black your screen.

If it works, you can specify intel_backlight as the control interface
for X by creating a xorg.conf file like this:
$ cat /etc/Xorg/Xorg.conf
Section "Device"
         Option     "Backlight"	"intel_backlight"
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "intel"
	BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

The intel_backlight interface does work, by echoing a value between 0 and 2583660. The control interface for X also works with that addition in /etc/X11/xorg.conf (Kubuntu).

Wow, the issue was immediately solved by posting here. Thanks Aaron Lu!
After, (out of curiosity) what should be modified so that X automatically detect the correct control interface, in case of a new installation for example ?
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