Brightness control fails in Ubuntu 14.04

Asked by Triyambakesh Mohanty

I have recently upgraded the laptop OS from LTS 12.04 to LTS 14.04 in Acer Aspire 5740. Earlier, the brightness control was controled by a plugin 'Kamal Mostafa mjgbacklight'. Soon after upgrade to 14.04, the brightness control fails. Kindly resolve.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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What is the output of :

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a

Thanks

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Triyambakesh Mohanty (triyambakesh) said :
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*-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 12
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:41 memory:f0000000-f03fffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:1800(size=8)
LSB Version: core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch:core-4.1-ia32:core-4.1-noarch:security-4.0-ia32:security-4.0-noarch:security-4.1-ia32:security-4.1-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
Linux triyambakesh-laptop 3.13.0-34-generic #60-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 13 15:49:09 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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OmgUbuntu has a guide on how to install the Intel driver installed. It may help

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Triyambakesh Mohanty (triyambakesh) said :
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Dear Actionparsnip, Thank you for guiding me in setting up the Intel Driver from OMGUBUNTU (http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/08/intel-graphics-installer-linux-updated-1-0-6). I have followed the instructions exactly what is given in the page (https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/2014/intelr-graphics-installer-1.0.6-linux) & downloaded - 'Graphics Installer 1.0.6 for Ubuntu* 14.04, 32-bit' that is compatible to my system. Installation was done with complete set up & execution of 'Signatures - Ubuntu*' in Terminal, given in the same web page. But, there is no respose. Still the brightness remains 100%.

I also tried setting up Brightness Indicator from the page OMGUBUNTU. This also didnot work. (http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/04/brightness-control-ubuntu). Kindly suggest me. Thanks again.

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Triyambakesh Mohanty (triyambakesh) said :
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I am facing problem during prolonged work on my laptop due to failure in brightness control. Please help me out solving this problem. Also my Battery gets exhausted very fast.

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Triyambakesh Mohanty (triyambakesh) said :
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I could not configure anything for brightness. Kindly, provide me with solution for this. Thanks.

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said :
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Triyambakesh Mohanty (triyambakesh) said :
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Thankyou very much Manfred, my problem got fixed solution given on http://itsfoss.com/fix-brightness-ubuntu-1310/ by Abhishek. Thanks a lot.

For intel_backlight

sudo touch /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf

sudo gedit /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf

Add lines in text:

Section "Device"
        Identifier "card0"
        Driver "intel"
        Option "Backlight" "intel_backlight"
        BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Save it. Log out and log in back.

Problem Solved. Thanks Manfred for providing me this link.

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Triyambakesh Mohanty (triyambakesh) said :
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Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.