no brightness slider in 16.10 on ASUS UX305 laptop

[alex]

Just upgraded from 16.04 where brightness configuration could be done either with the brightness slider in System Settings, or with function keys.

On this new release 16.10 (everything went right during upgrade) there is no brightness slider and the function keys don't work.

Also when going in Sound Setting can't see neither the volume slider between the two loudspeaker icons (just can hear a sound when clicking between them but doesn't do anything while function keys working well).

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Thanks for your report.

I can't confirm your observations on my 16.10, so it may be some upgrading issue after all.

Can you make sure that your 16.10 is complete by running these commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt full-upgrade

Please let us know if the issues are present after having run those commands (and rebooted).

Also, this is apparently not a documentation issue, so changing the affected package.

[alex (iscandarster)]

Just run the 3 lines above and here the result :
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alex@RSt:/home/alex$ sudo apt update
[sudo] password for alex:
Hit:1 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety InRelease
Hit:2 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety-updates InRelease
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety-security InRelease [93,3 kB]
Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/apandada1/brightness-controller/ubuntu yakkety InRelease
Fetched 93,3 kB in 0s (292 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up-to-date.
alex@RSt:/home/alex$ sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
ubuntu-desktop is already the newest version (1.373).
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
alex@RSt:/home/alex$ sudo apt full-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
alex@RSt:/home/alex$
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And I rebooted.

As you can see in the lines above, in the mean time I installed 'brightness-controller' which is working fine. And even after the reboot still nothing changed (Setting and keys).

Also I attached a screenshot of the Brightness Setting.

Thanks for your help

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Thanks for your reply. Hopefully some of the experts on the settings GUI will attend this bug soon.