Brightness settings don't work on Lenovo Ideapad 5 15ARE05
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
After installation, the notebook brighness buttons change brightness
settings, but settings are not applied on the screen.
In the log files I can see something like this:
Failed to start Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of backlight:
amdgpu_bl0: Failed to write system 'brightness' attribute: No such device or address
amdgpu_bl0: Failed to write system 'brightness' attribute: No such device or address
Failed to get backlight or LED device 'backlight:
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu14
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-33-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.2
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Keine Berechtigung: '/var/log/boot.log'
CasperMD5CheckR
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: X-Cinnamon
Date: Sun May 31 10:43:17 2020
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: focal
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingI
GraphicsCard:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Renoir [1002:1636] (rev ce) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Lenovo Renoir [17aa:381b]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-05-29 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
MachineType: LENOVO 81YQ
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 03/25/2020
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: E7CN24WW
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: LNVNB161216
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: No DPK
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:
dmi.product.family: IdeaPad 5 15ARE05
dmi.product.name: 81YQ
dmi.product.sku: LENOVO_
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.101-2
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Solved this (and some other issues) for me by installing the mainline kernel /www.linuxupris ing.com/ 2018/10/ 2-utilities- to-install- latest- kernel- in.html
Used the "mainline" script for that
e.g. with instructions from https:/