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Doesn't seem to work on a Vaio with Nvidia 330M and Intel #59

Open snoxu opened 11 years ago

snoxu commented 11 years ago

I have a Vaio Z with dual graphics. Intel card is disabled. Only 330M is enabled lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 330M](rev a2)

Installed nvidiabl and nvidiablctl from Archlinux AUR

sudo modprobre nvidiabl dmesg |grep -i nvidia

[ 4.861202] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. [ 4.939665] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 310.19 Thu Nov 8 00:52:03 PST 2012 [ 5.897408] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=9 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input11 [ 5.897578] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input12 [ 5.897759] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input13 [ 5.897898] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input14 [ 284.910415] nvidiabl: loading driver version 0.80 [ 284.910429] nvidiabl: Supported Nvidia graphics adapter 10de:0a2b:104d:905a detected [ 284.910507] nvidiabl: smartdimmer register at address 0xb261c084 mapped at address 0xffffc900055ea084 [ 284.910514] nvidiabl: backlight type is raw [ 284.910554] nvidiabl: backup register value 0x0 [ 284.910555] nvidiabl: autodetecting maximum [ 284.910556] nvidiabl: using value 0x0 as maximum [ 284.910557] nvidiabl: autodetecting off [ 284.910558] nvidiabl: using value 0x0 as off [ 284.910558] nvidiabl: autodetecting minimum [ 284.910559] nvidiabl: minimum is 5% of maximum [ 284.910560] nvidiabl: using value 0x0 as minimum

sudo nvidiablctl down

No change in brightness.

Any help is appreciated.

edit: On a side note I'm able to manually control screen brightness with nouveau drivers. So it seems those drivers are doing something right. Too bad there's no vdpau on nouveau

guillaumezin commented 11 years ago

As far as I can see, this is not the nvidia chip that is controlling your brightness (see maximum detected at 0), I will blacklist your laptop from the driver, your backlight is probably controlled by Intel driver or bios directly.

guillaumezin commented 11 years ago

Could you give me the output of these commands:

cat /sys/class/dmi/id/sys_vendor cat /sys/class/dmi/id/product_name