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[Bug 1472897] Re: cannot adjust brightness E6530 15.04 fresh install

 

After hunting for solutions for hours, I have given up and installed
bumblebee. Suggested troubleshooting steps have a higher chance of being
attempted if instruction is given on how to switch X to reroute through
the nouveau driver (a way to toggle between bumblebee and nouveau).

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Title:
  cannot adjust brightness E6530 15.04 fresh install

Status in xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Press Fn + up/down arrow.

  Expected to happen: brightness goes up or down; notification in top
  right of brightness going up or down.

  Actually happened: brightness stays unaffected; notification does
  appear and respond correctly, but lies.

  Cannot adjust brightness using function key combo. Shows the
  notification as if I am adjusting it, but screen stays on max
  brightness. Brightness & Lock app doesn't adjust brightness either.

  When I switch to proprietary drivers, brightness adjustment does work.
  When I turn off the nvidia card and use the intel card, brightness
  adjustment works. But with the intel card only I don't have hdmi port
  support, so no triple monitor support. And with the proprietary
  drivers, I get horrible, horrible bugs, including one that made it
  impossible to get into my system until I modified bios settings
  related to the video card.

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