I cant change the screen brightness. The slider in battery and brightness doesn’t work and the buttons on my on the keyboard to adjust my brightness dont work either. I do not know the reason for this problem. Here is my graphics section in inxi -Fxxz
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Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: Dell
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-5.75 ports: active: LVDS-1
empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0046
Device-2: Microdia Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_1.3M type: USB
driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1.6:4 chip-ID: 0c45:6461
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 display-ID: :0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96
Monitor-1: LVDS-1 model: Seiko Epson 0x5441 res: 1366x768 dpi: 101
diag: 395mm (15.5")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics (ILK) v: 2.1 Mesa 22.1.4
direct render: Yes
There is two packages for this
xorg-xbacklight didnt work for some reason and it kept telling me “No outputs have backlight property” and acpilight seemed a hassle to install because i’m new to Linux but i have found another method. Here’s my solution:
I used an alternative package called light . its like xbacklight
You need to have yay or any other aur helper installed. if you do not have it type to following:
sudo pacman -S yay
after that type
yay light-git
then select the one named aur/light-git then install it
after that you can easily change the brightness through the terminal
To increase use: light -A <brightness level>
To decrease use: light -U <brightness level>
use light -h
for help
It is not a solution to link to a youtube video.
Please explain in textmode what you did to solve your issue.
Please share the complete inxi -Fazy
System:
Kernel: 5.15.57-2-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
root=UUID=d5f62ce4-c66c-4d67-b50e-44daba642345 rw
i915.enable_dpcd_backlight=0 quiet
resume=UUID=cb4185d1-f25c-458e-81e6-6d14df23566b udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.6 tk: Qt v: 5.15.5 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Portable System: Dell product: Inspiron N5010 v: A02
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Dell model: 0WXY9J v: A02 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI-[Legacy]: Dell v: A02 date: 04/09/2010
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 2.7 Wh (100.0%) condition: 2.7/48.8 Wh (5.5%) volts: 11.5
min: 11.1 model: Samsung DELL 7XFJJ05 type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: full
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i3 M 350 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Westmere
gen: core 1 built: 2010-11 process: Intel 32nm family: 6 model-id: 0x25 (37)
stepping: 2 microcode: 0x11
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB
L3: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1025 high: 1063 min/max: 931/2261 scaling:
driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1040 2: 964 3: 1033
4: 1063 bogomips: 18093
Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT
vulnerable
Type: mds status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode;
SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: Dell driver: i915
v: kernel arch: Gen-5.75 process: Intel 45nm built: 2010 ports:
active: LVDS-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
chip-ID: 8086:0046 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Microdia Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_1.3M type: USB
driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1.6:4 chip-ID: 0c45:6461 class-ID: 0e02
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 display-ID: :0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.21x7.99")
s-diag: 414mm (16.31")
Monitor-1: LVDS-1 model: Seiko Epson 0x5441 built: 2009 res: 1366x768
hz: 60 dpi: 101 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64") diag: 395mm (15.5")
ratio: 16:9 modes: 1366x768
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics (ILK) v: 2.1 Mesa 22.1.4
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Dell
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:3b56
class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.57-2-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.56 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Dell
Inspiron M5010 / XPS 8300 driver: bcma-pci-bridge v: N/A modules: bcma
pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 12:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:4727
class-ID: 0280
Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Dell
driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: e000
bus-ID: 13:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8136 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp19s0 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: wlp18s0b1 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB used: 127.81 GiB (42.9%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: HN-M320MBB
size: 298.09 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 0001 scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 48.57 GiB size: 47.5 GiB (97.81%) used: 14.38 GiB (30.3%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 512 MiB used: 511.6 MiB (99.9%) priority: -2
file: /swapfile
ID-2: swap-2 type: partition size: 4 GiB used: 1.22 GiB (30.5%)
priority: -3 dev: /dev/sda8 maj-min: 8:8
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 58.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): fan-1: 3320
Info:
Processes: 258 Uptime: 7h 13m wakeups: 1 Memory: 3.64 GiB used: 2.93 GiB
(80.6%) Init: systemd v: 251 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers:
gcc: 12.1.0 clang: 14.0.6 Packages: pacman: 1270 lib: 346 flatpak: 0
Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 default: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.20
Reyyan:
Inspiron N5010
Well, you already marked the solution, so posting the hardware specifications now seems … late.
Anyway. There is this https://askubuntu.com/questions/15169/dell-inspiron-n5010-brightness-issue
And updating the BIOS was the fix there, and since your laptop has
and there is a BIOS from 2011, might consider updating it too. It should help and even be able to use the Fn key combination to change the brightness under any linux distribution.
Cheers!
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