Brightness changes when plugging and unplugging the charger

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Whenever I plug or unplug the laptop charger the brightness changes to a very low setting. Does anybody have an idea of to prevent these kinds of changes?

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Have you checked Gnome’s Power settings ?
https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/display-brightness.html.en

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Yeah, I’ve checked that. Nothing about changing brightness when the charger is plugged or unplugged.

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I think this yet another problem with some AMD chipsets.

I’m experiencing it in a HP Envy x360 too, along with:

  • Can’t put my laptop to sleep since s3 is not implemented and s2idle (modern standby) is not supported yet.

  • The 4-pin jack is not able to detect the mic in my headset, which seems a codec/pin problem.

There are probably more, let’s hope in a year or so our laptops have aged well.

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If it’s useful for you, I have a solution in a very quite unusual way, I have the same issue with a HP Pavilion and an AMD Radeon R5, I’ve tried everything in the Arch wiki and in Linux forums until accidentally unplugged my laptop when it was in black screen mode, after that, I’ve discovered that the :

  • Wait until your screen turns black by inactivity
  • Plug and unplug your laptop

I know it should be an AMD issue but hope if this casualty (I’ve been doing this for a few weeks and is working every time)

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My girlfriend’s laptop has this exact issue, it’s a Lenovo Ideapad 3 with a Ryzen 5 3500U iirc. Whenever she plugs or unplugs the charger, brightness goes to minimum. Doesn’t happen on other distros.