[Bug 281084] New: Brightness not supported on Toshiba Satellite A100
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=281084 Summary: Brightness not supported on Toshiba Satellite A100 Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Alpha 4 Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Mobile Devices AssignedTo: behlert@novell.com ReportedBy: bugzilla.novell@friederikealthen.de QAContact: qa@suse.de CC: hmacht@novell.com, dkukawka@novell.com Neither the hotkeys, nor kpowersave change the brightness on my Toshiba Satellite A100-773. After modprobing video I can change the brightness by entering values into /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness. After this kpowersave still reports, that my hardware does not support brightness. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=281084 ------- Comment #1 from bugzilla.novell@friederikealthen.de 2007-06-06 02:09 MST ------- By the way, after modprobing video the hotkeys to change the brightness do work, too. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=281084 behlert@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |fseidel@novell.com, behlert@novell.com AssignedTo|behlert@novell.com |thoenig@novell.com ------- Comment #2 from behlert@novell.com 2007-06-06 02:21 MST ------- So if you modprobe the video the hotkeys work? Does changing the brightness with kpowersave work then, too? If I remember correct there are some issues with video which hinder us to load it automatically. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=281084 ------- Comment #3 from bugzilla.novell@friederikealthen.de 2007-06-06 02:39 MST ------- Unfortunately kpowersave does not support brightness after modprobing video. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=281084 hmacht@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |bugzilla.novell@friederikealthen.de ------- Comment #4 from hmacht@novell.com 2007-06-06 03:18 MST ------- Friederike, can you please check if the toshiba_acpi module is loaded? Unfortunatelly, the ACPI video module conflicts with other modules and laptops. But there's a patch floating around which makes the toshiba_acpi module export it's hotkeys via the input layer which will hopefully applied soon. At least one hope... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=281084 ------- Comment #5 from bugzilla.novell@friederikealthen.de 2007-06-06 07:07 MST ------- The toshiba_acpi module is not loaded and it does not support my laptop, as I have a Phoenix-BIOS and not one from Toshiba. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=281084 bugzilla.novell@friederikealthen.de changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|bugzilla.novell@friederikeal| |then.de | ------- Comment #6 from bugzilla.novell@friederikealthen.de 2007-06-06 07:08 MST ------- oops, forgot to unset NEEDINFO. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=281084 ------- Comment #7 from bugzilla.novell@friederikealthen.de 2007-06-09 11:51 MST ------- (In reply to comment #2)
So if you modprobe the video the hotkeys work? Does changing the brightness with kpowersave work then, too? kpowersave does support changing the brightness. One just has to restart kpowersave after modprobing video. ;) Took me a while to figure that out.
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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=281084 thoenig@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |bugzilla.novell@friederikealthen.de ------- Comment #8 from thoenig@novell.com 2007-06-11 05:30 MST ------- For now, we can not do anything for Toshiba laptops with Phoenix BIOS. However: There is a ACPI driver for Omnibook/Toshiba laptops (http://omnibook.sourceforge.net) which could help. Friderike, can you please give a try and report back if it helps? If so, please file a new bug and ask for inclusion of this driver. Unfortunately this is probably not that easy as the driver does not ship with the upstream Linux kernel. But we might be able to create a KMP package. Thanks! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=281084 ------- Comment #9 from dkukawka@novell.com 2007-06-11 09:54 MST ------- There is already a KMP package for the omnibook module and openSUSE 10.3 available. You need only to install the package and maybe load the module. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=281084 ------- Comment #10 from thoenig@novell.com 2007-06-11 10:04 MST ------- Danny, do we have user space support (HAL, powersave/KPowersave, g-p-m) for the exported interfaces of omnibook? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=281084 ------- Comment #11 from dkukawka@novell.com 2007-06-11 10:59 MST ------- If the device is supported via the omnibook module it should work out of the box via HAL (you may need to restart HAL or load the module before HAL) and due to this it should also work in the other userspace tools depending on HAL -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=281084 ------- Comment #12 from thoenig@novell.com 2007-06-11 11:21 MST ------- Alright, thanks. We should investigate how we could install the omnibook by default for Toshiba laptops with Phoenix BIOS. There's probably some YaST magic we could use for that as dmidecode should tell the BIOS vendor as well as the system vendor. Friederike, please let me know if omnibook-kmp helps. Then we will decide on how to proceed. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=281084#c13 Friederike Althen <bugzilla.novell@friederikealthen.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|bugzilla.novell@friederikeal| |then.de | --- Comment #13 from Friederike Althen <bugzilla.novell@friederikealthen.de> 2007-06-20 14:37:47 MST --- no, the omnibook-kmp does not work on this machine. I even compiled the svn version but that did not help either. There are plenty of requests in the omnibook-module forum to support this notebook ... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=281084#c14 Timo Hoenig <thoenig@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |bugzilla.novell@friederikealthen.de --- Comment #14 from Timo Hoenig <thoenig@novell.com> 2007-06-21 01:50:27 MST --- Friederike, could you please check if there is a new bios version available for your system? I've read reports on the Toshiba Linux mailinglist, that this may help for A100 models. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=281084#c15 Friederike Althen <bugzilla.novell@friederikealthen.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|bugzilla.novell@friederikeal| |then.de | --- Comment #15 from Friederike Althen <bugzilla.novell@friederikealthen.de> 2007-06-21 03:12:48 MST --- I already installed the newest bios version (5.60-WIN) of 04/06/07. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=281084#c16 Timo Hoenig <thoenig@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |bugzilla.novell@friederikealthen.de --- Comment #16 from Timo Hoenig <thoenig@novell.com> 2007-08-11 03:22:26 MST --- OK, thanks.
From reading the whole bug again (especially comment #2): Are you saying that if the video module is loaded, the hotkeys work fine, but kpowersave doesn't?
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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=281084#c17 Friederike Althen <bugzilla.novell@friederikealthen.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|bugzilla.novell@friederikeal| |then.de | --- Comment #17 from Friederike Althen <bugzilla.novell@friederikealthen.de> 2007-08-11 03:58:02 MST --- The hotkeys and kpowersave just work after modprobing video. I have installed the newest bios version (5.90-Win) of 9th July 2007. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=281084#c18 Friederike Althen <bugzilla.novell@friederikealthen.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version|Alpha 4 |RC 1 --- Comment #18 from Friederike Althen <bugzilla.novell@friederikealthen.de> 2007-09-21 06:07:00 MST --- Now one has to delete /etc/modprobe.d/xorg-x11-driver-video to be able to modprobe video again and get working brightness support. ( bug #260675 ) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=281084#c19 Alan Mycroft <am@cl.cam.ac.uk> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |am@cl.cam.ac.uk --- Comment #19 from Alan Mycroft <am@cl.cam.ac.uk> 2007-09-24 15:37:55 MST --- A variant of this problem appears also to occur on my Toshiba portege M300. In 10.2 Fn/F6 and Fn/F7 correctly implemented brightness up/down. When using (gnome) 10.3RC1 live CD then these keys do nothing. I've tried the above suggestions of modprobing video and/or toshiba/acpi but these have no effect, even after restarting gnome-power-manager. Doing "echo "brightness:4" > /proc/acpi/toshiba/lcd does have the desired effect. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=281084#c20 --- Comment #20 from Friederike Althen <bugzilla.novell@friederikealthen.de> 2007-09-24 15:42:02 MST --- (In reply to comment #19 from Alan Mycroft)
When using (gnome) 10.3RC1 live CD then these keys do nothing. I've tried the above suggestions of modprobing video and/or toshiba/acpi but these have no effect, even after restarting gnome-power-manager. have you really deleted or commented out the line in /etc/modprobe.d/xorg-x11-driver-video?
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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=281084#c22 Timo Hoenig <thoenig@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |LATER Status Whiteboard| |FATE 302883 --- Comment #22 from Timo Hoenig <thoenig@novell.com> 2007-11-27 07:18:06 MST --- This is being handled by a feature request (FATE #302883: Implement Vista compatible video and brightness functionality as defined by the latest ACPI specification). As this feature is unlikely to get backported to 10.3 I'm closing this as LATER. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=281084 User trenn@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=281084#c24 Thomas Renninger <trenn@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |trenn@novell.com --- Comment #24 from Thomas Renninger <trenn@novell.com> 2008-09-10 06:44:25 MDT --- It took some time..., but this should finally be solved in the latest kernel. Please try the next 11.1 Beta release and open a new bug if you still should have problems. The reason why this took so long is that ThinkPads showed regressions which were not easy to resolve. The patchset is too big and will not be backported, therefore keep it won't fix. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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