Display brightness -indicator doesn't work for me. I can move the slider but it won't have an effect to actual screen brightness. The indicator can be accessed by clicking System Tray arrow > Battery & Brightness. My video card is Ati Radeon 4550 HD, X.org: 1.14.3.901, default open source drivers, monitor is BenQ G2420HD.
I'm experiencing the same. (though it works when I log into XFCE4) KDE: 4.10.5 Linux: 4.0.0-rc3 Distro: slackware64-current 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: AMD/ATI [Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.] Kabini [Radeon HD 8330] [1002:9832] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:2219] Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 40 Region 0: Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Region 2: Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=8M] Region 4: I/O ports at 4000 [size=256] Region 5: Memory at f1500000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K] Expansion ROM at f1560000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: radeon Kernel modules: radeon
This issue sounds similar to #287338, though that one is with an intel video card.
Sorry for the spam, I thought that would create a link. Similar issue -> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287338
Thank you for the bug report. As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists. If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.
Only found this while searching for issues relating to AMD Kabini. I don't think I ever had this issue and currently running Plasma 5.21/5.22 this doesn't appear to be an issue.
I tested this with my current computers and it's working so I set this as fixed. Sorry for forgetting this report.