Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.7.3) OS: Linux The screen brightness controls on a Lenovo T510 do not work. Sometimes when adjusting the brightness up the KDE brightness OSD will display and show the setting increasing. But nothing displays for the brightness decreasing. But, no matter what, the actual screen brightness does not change. Please let me know what additional information I can send. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Start KDE. Login. Adjust brightness up/down. Actual Results: Nothing happens. Expected Results: Brightness should change.
Is this still happening in KDE 4.10?
I am using Kubuntu 12.4. I think there was a patch at some point in the LTS that included a fix to KDE for this. IOW, this problem is resolved. Thank you for checking on it!
Okey ! If for any reason this still happens once you update to the next LTS just reopen the bug :)
I am experiencing similar problem. I can change my display brightness but no brightness indicator is shown. The indicator only comes up when KDE Power Management itself changes brightness (e.g. dimming screen after set amount of minutes). When I mix these two independent approaches (I change brightness by FN keys and KDE Power Management increases brightness e.g. because a key was pressed and screen was "idle-dimmed") -> screen brightness starts to flicker indefinitely until I put notebook to sleep. I think this can be caused by storing brightness number into 2 different paths like: /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness and /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness ...but I'm totally guessing, I did no research so far. My rig is Lenovo T510, Arch Linux, KDE 4.10.5. I've experienced the same behaviour on Gentoo.