Bug 346370

Summary: nvidia: broken brightness(backlight) fn-keys functionality on samsung R70 aura T7500 Denet notebook
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3 Reporter: Evgeny Bobkin <stwooe>
Component: X11 3rd Party DriverAssignee: Roland Hui <rohui>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None CC: osv, sndirsch, suse
Version: Final   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86-64   
OS: openSUSE 10.3   
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Attachments: nvidia-bug-report for 100.14.19
nvidia-bug-report for 169.04 beta
bug report for 169.07

Description Evgeny Bobkin 2007-12-05 22:53:10 UTC
the brightness fn-keys do not work with nvidia driver( and 169.04 beta)

graphic card model: 		 GeForce 8600M GS


brightness fn-keys do work nice with nv, vesa, mesa driver's OR in tty1 console.

the possible way to change the backlight brightness:
ctrl+alt+f1 --> changing brightness with fn keys --> alt+f7 back to X with nvidia driver.

ps: i'm KDE user.
Comment 1 Evgeny Bobkin 2007-12-06 15:58:30 UTC
the brightness fn-keys do not work with nvidia drivers (100.14.19 and 169.04 beta)*

Comment 2 Evgeny Bobkin 2007-12-06 16:03:29 UTC
Created attachment 186218 [details]
nvidia-bug-report for 100.14.19
Comment 3 Evgeny Bobkin 2007-12-06 16:10:57 UTC
Created attachment 186221 [details]
nvidia-bug-report for 169.04 beta
Comment 4 Stefan Dirsch 2007-12-22 05:33:56 UTC
Could you verify, if this issue is still reproducable with release 169.07?

Driver download:
  http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_169.07.html
  http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_169.07.html

Installation instructions:
  http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html
Comment 5 Jan Ritzerfeld 2007-12-22 19:01:16 UTC
For me, the release 169.07 fixed the problem (Lenovo R61 8919-6VG, I did not open a separate bug report).
Comment 6 Stefan Dirsch 2007-12-22 19:23:53 UTC
Thanks for testing.
Comment 7 Evgeny Bobkin 2007-12-23 23:26:43 UTC
well, i reopen that bug...

i have seen a lot of posts that this problem has beed fixed for Levono notebooks, but looks like only for them, i still have it in 169.07 and it looks like i m not alone this that.

looks like nvidia boys do not really care...

have seen posts on http://www.nvnews.net that ppl have this issue on:
Sony VAIO FZ11S 
thinkpad T61p
samsung R60
and so on...

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep "(EE)"
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown
only gives this line.

Comment 8 Evgeny Bobkin 2007-12-23 23:28:47 UTC
oops forgot to reopen
Comment 9 Evgeny Bobkin 2007-12-23 23:31:03 UTC
Created attachment 188634 [details]
bug report for 169.07
Comment 10 Stefan Dirsch 2007-12-25 14:12:00 UTC
Sorry, didn't notice that this is another bug, which has been hijacked.
Comment 11 Jan Ritzerfeld 2007-12-25 15:06:57 UTC
Pardon? I stated explicitly that I am using a Lenovo and that I did not open a separate bug report for (apparently) the same issue with notebook brightness control and NVIDIA drivers.
Comment 12 Stefan Dirsch 2008-01-30 04:33:01 UTC
Could you verify, if this issue is still reproducable with release 169.09?

Driver download:
  http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_169.09.html
  http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_169.09.html

Installation instructions:
  http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html
Comment 13 Stefan Dirsch 2008-02-12 11:19:52 UTC
Still no response after 2 weeks. Therefore closing as NORESPONSE. Please
reopen once you can provide the required feedback. Thanks.
Comment 14 Sergey Ostashenko 2008-03-09 21:56:37 UTC
I'm using samsung R70 with late nvidia driver 168.12 and there is still no brightness control in X, so I do reopen this bug. 
Comment 15 Roland Hui 2008-04-14 21:22:03 UTC
I do not have access to a Samsung R70, however, I've reproduced a brightness issue on a Sony notebook and opened NVIDIA bug 410754.  Hopefully, resolution of bug 410754 will resolve what you're seeing also.
Comment 16 Stefan Dirsch 2008-05-28 14:32:39 UTC
I finally decided to no longer track proprietary NVIDIA driver bugs
against openSUSE. Therefore I'm closing these now as WONTFIX.

In case you're using our SLES/SLED products and can reproduce this
issue also on thesed products feel free to reopen. These are still
tracked, since customers of these products depend on the proprietary
driver for newer NVIDIA hardware.

Be aware that you need a privilleged account to track anything against
our SLES/SLED products. So if this not an option for you I suggest to
report the problem to the official NVIDIA driver feedback channels
(forum/email; see NVIDIA driver download site) and refer to this
bugreport.