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seting the brightness - xbacklight -set or : acpi_video0 & intel_backlight


dil_bert

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Hello dear all

i am running MX-Linux on a lenovo notebook. 


yesterday i recognized that the brightness is to low - how can i customize and solve this issue. how to change the settings: 


should i go like so: 

https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=41893


I have installed MX 16 on my laptop and am quite impressed with it. I usually set the Display Brightness to 50% as it is more convenient for me. What I found is after I restart MX 16, the brightness reverts back to 100% and I will have to reset it to 50% manually. The same thing gets repeated after restarting the OS. Please do something to correct it.
its a quirk in xfce. I use a utility called "xbacklight" to set the brightness level to where I want. in my case, 70%

xbacklight -set 70

or should i go like so: 

Brightness: acpi_video0 & intel_backlight

https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=47809



[Cross-posted in Xfce forums, 'coz ToZ]

Hello. I have some trouble with the brightness controls on my netbook (hardware and software details below):

Fn+F5/F6 seems to use acpi_video0. Fn keys make the brightness change, and the notification popup appear, but don't move the bar in the popup nor the slider in the Power Manager plugin.

Xfce Power Manager v 1.6.1 seems to use intel_backlight when I use the slider or scroll over the panel icon. This way I can get higher max brightness compared to using the Fn keys.

I'd like to use intel_backlight, as it has a bigger max value and is more fine grained (off-topic, anyone knows about the logarithmic scale proposed here, sounded great!), and marginally would like the slider and notification popup update their position properly.

Here's some info from my system:    


user@netbook:~$ cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.13.0-1-686-pae root=UUID=bcb90034-53b6-482c-a4b1-b35db0c2b510 ro quiet



I tried some of the "popular" acpi options on the grub command line, to no visible effect.


user@netbook:~$ lspci -k | grep -iA2 VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
    Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics Controller
    Kernel driver in use: i915




user@netbook:~$ for i in /sys/class/backlight/*; do echo $i;cat $i/brightness;cat $i/max_brightness;done
/sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0
14
15
/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight
7989
39780




user@netbook:~$ pastebinit /var/log/Xorg.0.log
https://pastebin.com/60pFPuSy




user@netbook    :~$ inxi -GMS
System:    Host: mx1 Kernel: 4.13.0-1-686-pae i686 bits: 32 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 
           Distro: MX-17_386 Horizon December 15  2017 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: 1005HA v: x.x serial: <root required> 
           Mobo: ASUSTeK model: 1005HA v: x.xx serial: <root required> BIOS: American Megatrends v: 1102 
           date: 10/16/2009 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: intel resolution: 1024x600~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GME x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 1.4 Mesa 18.2.6 


Following advice from old forum posts, I modified these two file, maybe I should just modify one of them?

user@netbook:~$ cat /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
Section "Device"
        Identifier  "card0"
        Driver      "intel"
        Option      "Backlight"    "intel_backlight"
        BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection




user@netbook:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf 
Section "Device"
   Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
   Driver      "intel"
   Option      "AccelMethod" "sna"             # was "uxa"
   Option      "Backlight"   "intel_backlight" # I added this line
   Option      "TearFree"    "true"
   BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"                     # and maybe this one too? I don't remember!


Thanks for any help

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