Multiple display issues after upgrade of XPS 15 7590 with Ubuntu 22.10

[atactic]

After updating Ubuntu on a Dell XPS 15 7590 from version 22.04 to 22.10 Kinetic (presently running 5.19.0-27), there are multiple display issues.

- Brightness is set at 100% and cannot be changed.
- Brightness controls do not work, they are assigned different types of controls, brightness down button maximizes an internet window, brightness up shows the page code (see video file attached).
- Display driver is reported to have been installed manually, which obviously it was not, graphic adapter drivers (Nouveau or NVidia legacy) cannot be selected (see screenshot attached).

Obviously all these issues remain after switching from XOrg to Wayland (running Ubuntu on Wayland) and rebooting the laptop.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.10
Package: xorg 1:7.7+23ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.19.0-27.28-generic 5.19.17
Uname: Linux 5.19.0-27-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
.proc.driver.nvidia.capabilities.gpu0: Error: path was not a regular file.
.proc.driver.nvidia.capabilities.mig: Error: path was not a regular file.
.proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0000.01.00.0: Error: path was not a regular file.
.proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: ""
.proc.driver.nvidia.suspend: suspend hibernate resume
.proc.driver.nvidia.suspend_depth: default modeset uvm
.proc.driver.nvidia.version:
 NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 515.86.01 Wed Oct 26 09:12:38 UTC 2022
 GCC version:
ApportVersion: 2.23.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log'
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Dec 7 14:00:24 2022
DistUpgraded: 2022-12-03 12:58:58,725 DEBUG icon theme changed, re-reading
DistroCodename: kinetic
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] [8086:3e9b] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Dell CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] [1028:0905]
   Subsystem: Dell TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] [1028:0905]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-06-16 (174 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220419)
MachineType: Dell Inc. XPS 15 7590
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.19.0-27-generic root=/dev/mapper/vgubuntu-root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to kinetic on 2022-12-03 (4 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 09/14/2022
dmi.bios.release: 1.19
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1.19.0
dmi.board.name: 0T8KGX
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr1.19.0:bd09/14/2022:br1.19:svnDellInc.:pnXPS157590:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0T8KGX:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct10:cvr:sku0905:
dmi.product.family: XPS
dmi.product.name: XPS 15 7590
dmi.product.sku: 0905
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.113-2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 22.2.1-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx N/A
version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers-* N/A
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:21.1.4-2ubuntu1.2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:19.1.0-3
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20210115-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.17-2build1

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Video of brightness controls having no effect on brightness but controlling instead internet page display.

[atactic (atactic)]

Screenshot of display drivers in settings showing that NVidia legacy and Nouveau drivers cannot be selected.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

We'll focus on the brightness issues here, which partly sounds like a keyboard issue. Did you try holding down Fn while pressing the brightness keys? It might just be in Fn-lock mode.

[Ubuntu Kernel Bot (ubuntu-kernel-bot)]

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[atactic (atactic)]

Daniel, very good hint, it works when holding [Fn] down.
Then I can also toggle the function keys action by pressing [Fn]+[ESC] (that has a small Fn lock icon painted on it), did not even know about this.
There is also a disable Fn-Lock option in the BIOS settings, POST-Behaviour, but this remains effect-less on deactivating the Fn-Lock, have still to do it manually after start-up.

So what is the way forward now, do I have to fill another bug report for the separate display driver issue?

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Yes please open a new bug for the driver issue by running:

  ubuntu-bug software-properties-gtk