Brightness regulation not working

Hello!
I have a problem with fn shortcuts responsible for backlight brightness regulation. System is detecting that I’m using them but nothing really happens, only nice slider appears on the screen.

I tried to set GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_backlight=$VALUE" in /etc/default/grub then sudo update-grub, but It’s not working either - only error (same as here) from boot screen disapears.

I also tired to create something like macro with help of this post but it’s not working. Later on I double checked everything, I corrected the spotted error in adjust-brightness.service file and still nothing. Also i didn’t had ~/.config/systemd/user/ dir created, I think it’s worth mentioning.

xrandr --output eDP --brightness 0.5 command is working tho.

I’ve updated kernel to 5.11.4-1-rt11 but there was same situation on original 5.10.

inxi:

inxi -Fxz
System:    Kernel: 5.11.4-1-rt11-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.4 
           Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 82EY v: IdeaPad Gaming 3 15ARH05 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: NO DPK serial: <filter> UEFI: LENOVO v: FCCN13WW date: 06/29/2020 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 26.1 Wh (56.5%) condition: 46.2/45.0 Wh (102.7%) volts: 11.4 min: 11.4 model: SMP L19M3PF7 
           status: Discharging 
CPU:       Info: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 4800H with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 rev: 1 cache: 
           L2: 4 MiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 92668 
           Speed: 1397 MHz min/max: 1400/2900 MHz boost: disabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1397 2: 1398 3: 1397 4: 1397 5: 1397 
           6: 1397 7: 1397 8: 1397 9: 1397 10: 1396 11: 1397 12: 1396 13: 1397 14: 1397 15: 1397 16: 1397 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA TU117M vendor: Lenovo driver: nvidia v: 470.57.02 bus-ID: 01:00.0 
           Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Renoir vendor: Lenovo driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 05:00.0 
           Device-3: IMC Networks Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-3:2 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: modesetting resolution: 1920x1080~120Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.40.0 5.11.4-1-rt11-MANJARO LLVM 12.0.1) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.1.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: NVIDIA vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 
           Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A 
           bus-ID: 05:00.5 
           Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus-ID: 05:00.6 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.11.4-1-rt11-MANJARO running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no 
           Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
           Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.32 running: no 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 
           bus-ID: 03:00.0 
           IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Realtek RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Lenovo driver: rtw_8822ce v: N/A 
           port: 2000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 
           IF: wlp4s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-3:2 
           Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: down bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes 
           address: see --recommends 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 471.36 GiB used: 135.41 GiB (28.7%) 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZALQ256HAJD-000L2 size: 238.47 GiB temp: 34.9 C 
           ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: A-Data model: SU720 size: 232.89 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 233.24 GiB used: 92.27 GiB (39.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
           ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 148 KiB (0.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 
Swap:      Alert: No swap data was found. 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 42.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 334 Uptime: 2m Memory: 15.08 GiB used: 2.32 GiB (15.4%) Init: systemd Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 
           Packages: 1427 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 inxi: 3.3.06

Hello,

Is EOL = end of life and no longer in repositories. How did you updated that kernel and when?
Please check this as it might help

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Is EOL = end of life and no longer in repositories. How did you updated that kernel and when?
Please check this as it might help

Few weeks ago with system settings, I will try update later to something else.
Also I will try do thing from this post and I will let you know how it turned out.

You were right, that was kernel problem. Now I’m running 5.12.19-1-MANJARO x86_64 and everything works just fine. Also I left amdgpu.backlight=0 in /etc/default/grub. I do not know if it has any impact but I am writing if someone else had the same problem with brightness regulation in the case of AMD iGPU.

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