[Bug 1257766] Re: [HP ZBook 15] can not reduce brightness

2015-03-27 Thread Paolo Montrasio
I tried the fix reported by #58 but it didn't work. Before that Fn LumUp/Down displayed the brightness control overlay. After that it didn't show it anymore. I restored the original boot configuration and it appears again. Unfortunately Shutdown behaves like Restart now. I remember I had the same p

[Bug 1257766] Re: [HP ZBook 15] can not reduce brightness

2014-04-24 Thread Martin Konopka
During about last mont the bug did not show itself. Hence I changed the status to Fix released. However, a related problem remains which I am going to report separately. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a m

[Bug 1257766] Re: [HP ZBook 15] can not reduce brightness

2014-03-27 Thread stratos
After following all the proposed solutions in the thread, I have to verify that the solution proposed in #58 is what worked for me. I am running on a HP Zbook 15. $ uname -a Linux firefly 3.11.0-12-generic #19-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 9 16:20:46 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- You receive

[Bug 1257766] Re: [HP ZBook 15] can not reduce brightness

2014-03-17 Thread Logan Browne
I have the backlight control keys working on 3.13.0-17 with the addition of the following to my /etc/default/grub file: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor" The backlight is controlled through the intel driver rather because the internal display is connected to that car

[Bug 1257766] Re: [HP ZBook 15] can not reduce brightness

2014-03-06 Thread Barney
Yep - I'd seen the man page for xrandr, but xbacklight has no effect on my hardware, which is why I used xrandr. I guess as far as the workarounds go, just use whatever works for you. Cheers. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubu

[Bug 1257766] Re: [HP ZBook 15] can not reduce brightness

2014-03-05 Thread Martin Konopka
Paolo, "Ubuntu repository kernel (not a mainline one)" is, I guess, just the default kernel you get in ubuntu system. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1257766 Title: [HP ZBook 15] ca

[Bug 1257766] Re: [HP ZBook 15] can not reduce brightness

2014-03-05 Thread Paolo Montrasio
Christopher, I'll try to do that after I understand what it means being booted up into a "Ubuntu repository kernel (not a mainline one)". I'll read the pages you linked. Meanwhile I'd like to point out that a proper workaround is to use xbacklight -set NNN (0 to 100) and not xrandr as in the comme