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Old 08-31-2014, 12:33 PM   #1
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Unhappy Monitor brightness


I have a hp Pavilion 23, with windows and debian wheezy. The monitor in debian is too bright, and I have not been able to change the brightness.
The output of lspci is:
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00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
I looked on system settings -> color and icon for the monitor says "unknown - default uncalibrated"

I downloaded the "Brightness Controller 1.1" from here:
http://linuxg.net/manage-your-displa...ative-systems/

But it doens't doe anything, and the messages on the console are:
xrandr: Gamma size is 0.
xrandr: Gamma size is 0.
xrandr: Gamma size is 0.

I typed this:
"egrep -i " connected|card detect|primary dev" /var/log/Xorg.0.log"
that I saw on a Ubuntu forum:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/28033...-video-drivers

but doesn't give anything back.

I also typed
Quote:
xrandr --output HDMI1 --brightness 45
and got this:
Quote:
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
warning: output HDMI1 not found; ignoring
xrandr: Need crtc to set gamma on.
Is there any way to change the brightness on debian, lcd monitor? the brightness is too intense that cause the eyes to become tired.
Any advice will be really appreciated.

Thanks
/Joc
 
Old 08-31-2014, 07:08 PM   #2
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Can you not adjust the monitor brightness directly?

Check the following
Code:
xrandr --verbose |egrep '(Bright|Gamma)'
If values are not returned, then it may not be possible to make a brightness adjustment.

For reference, I get
Code:
xrandr --verbose |egrep '(Bright|Gamma)'
        Gamma:      1.0:1.0:1.0
        Brightness: 1.0
The sensible range for my laptop display (LVDS1) is between ~0.2-1.0.
 
Old 09-01-2014, 04:45 PM   #3
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I got this:

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xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
 
Old 09-01-2014, 08:47 PM   #4
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Anything listed with the following?

Code:
ls -l /sys/class/backlight
If not, it could be due to a kernel or video driver bug I guess.

For reference, I get
Code:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 31 13:33 acpi_video0 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/backlight/acpi_video0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep  1 14:40 intel_backlight -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card0/card0-LVDS-1/intel_backlight
and acpi_video0 contains
Code:
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Aug 31 13:34 actual_brightness
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Sep  2 12:37 bl_power
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Aug 31 13:33 brightness
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 Sep  2 12:37 device -> ../../../0000:00:02.0
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Sep  1 14:41 max_brightness
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    0 Sep  2 12:37 power
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 Sep  1 14:40 subsystem -> ../../../../../class/backlight
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Sep  1 14:41 type
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Aug 31 13:33 uevent
Current brightness reported via
Code:
 # cat brightness
10
I can adjust with something like
Code:
echo "7" > brightness
Are you able to do similar?

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Old 09-01-2014, 11:11 PM   #5
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It might be useful to see what boot options are in use
Code:
cat /proc/cmdline
This might be relevant to you

http://www.techjail.net/solved-brigh...-pangolin.html

In particular, the following boot parameter might help
Code:
acpi_backlight=vendor
Examine /var/log/Xorg.0.log to confirm that the intel driver is actually in use (rather than the vesa driver for example).
 
Old 09-03-2014, 03:53 PM   #6
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for

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ls -l /sys/class/backlight
I get
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total 0
 
Old 09-03-2014, 03:55 PM   #7
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Boot options:

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cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 root=UUID=4fd53150-e7f5-4df1-ace0-821d1251cfbc ro quiet
 
Old 09-03-2014, 04:19 PM   #8
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All I can recommended (beyond submitting a bug report), is to try adding the boot parameter I suggested in post #5.
 
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As per ferrari:
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Can you not adjust the monitor brightness directly?
what sort of monitor is it? Most monitors allow you to manually adjust brightness, contrast, colour temperature, etc, via control buttons or am I missing something?

Have you tried setting it up manually for Debian then tweeking Windows to suit? Why is Windows assumed to be the default?

Oooooh controversial!

Play Bonny!

 
Old 11-01-2014, 12:38 PM   #10
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what sort of monitor is it? Most monitors allow you to manually adjust brightness, contrast, colour temperature, etc, via control buttons or am I missing something?
This is an "all in one", and only has one button to turn on. This computer came with windows preinstalled (8.1, and also has UEFI), and from windows you can change the brightness with the keyboard, but there are no controls on the monitor. The brightness menu is not available on my gnome
 
Old 11-01-2014, 05:10 PM   #11
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Did you ever try the boot parameter suggestion that I mentioned?
 
Old 11-02-2014, 08:00 PM   #12
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Did you ever try the boot parameter suggestion that I mentioned?
I did, but I don't know what I am supposed to see on /var/log/Xorg.0.log. This is what I did:
Code:
$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep "intel"
[    16.168] (==) Matched intel as autoconfigured driver 0
[    16.168] (II) LoadModule: "intel"
[    16.168] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so
[    16.200] (II) Module intel: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    16.219] (II) intel: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810,
[    16.341] (II) UnloadModule: "intel"
[    16.341] (II) Unloading intel
The intel module is being Unloaded. Is there anything else that I should do?
Thanks in advance.
/joc
 
Old 11-02-2014, 08:36 PM   #13
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Ah, if the Intel driver is being unloaded, then that may explain why screen brightness adjustment is not working. It is likely that a basic framebuffer driver (eg fbdev or vesa) is in use. This problem needs addressing first. It might be useful to upload your entire Xorg.0.log to http://pastebin.com/, and post the link to it here.

You should supply your graphics card details from
Code:
/sbin/lspci -nnk |grep VGA -A3
It may well be that you're running a kernel that is too old to support this graphics hardware.
 
Old 11-02-2014, 08:59 PM   #14
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Perhaps this Debian thread is relevant to your situation.
 
Old 11-03-2014, 05:54 PM   #15
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Perhaps this Debian thread is relevant to your situation.
It worked!. Now in system settings I have a bar, that I can move and change the brightness!. Thanks man, your'e the awesomest
I owe you a beer.

/Joc

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