Pop os brightness stuck at maximum
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So I've encountered this problem every time I installed linux on my laptop. I've asked it before here , but that didn't go well.
Now I'v installed Pop OS (22.04) and I'm fully committed to it, it's not dual boot anymore and it's the only OS I currently run. I did try gaming on it and works just fine, I actually have no problem right now with it, except the brightness of course xd
The situation: Brightness of the screen is stuck at maximum (I think, it's really bright), the
I CAN change the brightness using
Also, the keyboard backlight works just fine, I didn't install any RGB related software and it has the default red color but the brightness level is working perfect. Changing the brightness of the keyboard backlight will return the display brightness to maximum, if I've used
Software: Pop OS 22.04,
actual_brightness
file has 100 in it, the brightness slider changes the brightness
file (both files on /sys/class/backlight/nvidia_0
). I CAN change the brightness using
xrandr --output DP-2 --brightness 0.5
for example, but it won't stay that way and none of the files I mentioned change when I use xrandr
.Also, the keyboard backlight works just fine, I didn't install any RGB related software and it has the default red color but the brightness level is working perfect. Changing the brightness of the keyboard backlight will return the display brightness to maximum, if I've used
xrandr
before and changed it.
What I have done:
I did dual boot Pop OS before wiping windows from the laptop, and in dual boot mode, I've changed the permissions of brightness
and actual_brightness
files (chmod 777
), and also tried to manually write numbers in them but it didn't work (Used nano and vim for it, in sudo
mode). I've searched for solutions but couldn't find working ones. There were somethings about older versions of nvidia drivers solving these problems, but:
1. I need up to date drivers, because I game on it and can't keep an outdated driver for gaming. Basically everything I need to install (steam, wine, lutris) will update the drivers or need up to date drivers.
2. This problem is not new, I had it every single time I've installed linux on this laptop (multiple times Ubuntu, I think I did manjaro one time and probably Pop OS before), and I think it's something related to how my hardware interacts with linux or something.
My specs: ASUS ROG GL503VS, Intel Corei7-7700HQ, Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070 (The only GPU on my laptop, and it is dedicated of course), 1920x1080 144hz GeSync capable display (I don't know if it helps at all). Software: Pop OS 22.04,
nvidia-smi
output:
$ nvidia-smi
Mon Nov 20 16:50:39 2023
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 545.29.02 Driver Version: 545.29.02 CUDA Version: 12.3 |
|-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+======================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Off | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A |
| N/A 60C P0 35W / 115W | 380MiB / 8192MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=======================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 2130 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 139MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2234 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 57MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 5027 G ...RunOnOsLogin,WebAssemblyTrapHandler 88MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 5593 G ...,WinRetrieveSuggestionsOnlyOnDemand 90MiB |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
And uname -r
output:
$ uname -r
6.5.6-76060506-generic
If any other information is needed, I can happily give it to you. I'm quite new to linux (despite many tries) and know a thing or two but not much at all. I really want to use it as my main OS, but I think I'm gonna lose my eyes in the process if I can't solve this problem XD. Many thanks in advance.
Asked by III_phr
(43 rep)
Nov 20, 2023, 01:25 PM
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