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Bug 463836 - =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.4 (i915) with backlight off after resume
Summary: =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.4 (i915) with backlight off after resume
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers
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Reported: 2013-03-30 10:50 UTC by Mark Dominik Bürkle
Modified: 2013-03-30 17:44 UTC (History)
0 users

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Runtime testing required: ---


Attachments
kernel .config for gentoo-sources-3.8.4 (config-3.8.4-gentoo,99.27 KB, text/plain)
2013-03-30 10:52 UTC, Mark Dominik Bürkle
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Description Mark Dominik Bürkle 2013-03-30 10:50:30 UTC
Hi,

when I suspend/resume, the display driver (i915 in gentoo-sources-3.8.4 or xf86-video-intel-2.20.13) sets the backlight state to off.
The extended function keys (fn + brightness-up) work so I can get a proper display.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. have a hybrid graphics laptop (here: Core i5-2430M and amd/ati HD6470M in a HP "Pavilion g6 1222sg" laptop)
2. install Gentoo Linux
3. use gentoo-sources-3.8.4, xf86-video-intel-2.20.13 with USE="-sna uxa" and ati-drivers-3.13_beta2
4. boot
5. let "udev process events", see the backlight being turned off (re-enable with fn+brightnessUp), wait for the X display to appear, log in
6. suspend+resume

Actual Results:  
the display backlight is turned off

Expected Results:  
the display should be a bright as before suspending

lapmdb-hpl ~ #>> lspci -nn | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0116] (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Caicos [Radeon HD 6400M/7400M Series] [1002:6760]

lapmdb-hpl ~ #>> emerge --info
Portage 2.1.11.55 (default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.8.4-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.8.4-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-2430M_CPU_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.1
KiB Mem:     6053988 total,   2361628 free
KiB Swap:   10485756 total,  10485588 free
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:15:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p37
dev-java/java-config:     2.1.12-r1
dev-lang/python:          2.7.3-r3, 3.2.3-r2
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.9
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.1-r1
sys-apps/openrc:          0.11.8
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.5
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.9.6-r3, 1.11.6
sys-devel/binutils:       2.22-r1
sys-devel/gcc:            4.6.3
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4-r1
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r4
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.6 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.15-r3
Repositories: gentoo seden local
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="${EPREFIX}/etc/gconf /etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="de_DE.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/seden /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 avx berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cdda cddb cdinstall cdparanoia cdr cgi cli cracklib crypt css cxx dbus dedicated dga dri dvd dvdr fam fastcgi ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif glut gnome gnutls gpm gsm gstreamer gtk gzip hddtemp iconv idn ipv6 java java6 javascript jpeg jpeg2k kerberos lame lash ldap lm_sensors mad matroska mbox mikmod mime mmap mms mmx mng mod modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib musepack ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ogg openal openexr opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl php png posix quicktime raw rdesktop readline recode samba sasl savedconfig sdl session sharedmem simplexml smp sound sse sse2 ssl subversion svg symlink syslog sysvipc tcl tcmalloc tcpd theora tiff tokenizer udev unicode usb vcd videos vim-syntax vnc vorbis wavpack wifi wmf x264 xcb xcomposite xml xosd xsl xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" APACHE2_MPMS="prefork" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="de en fr" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2 pypy1_9 jython2_5" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="arm" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="arm armeb" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel fglrx" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON

lapmdb-hpl ~ #>>
Comment 1 Mark Dominik Bürkle 2013-03-30 10:52:15 UTC
Created attachment 343740 [details]
kernel .config for gentoo-sources-3.8.4
Comment 2 Mark Dominik Bürkle 2013-03-30 10:53:25 UTC
might be a fault in xf86-video-intel-2.20.13, too...
Comment 3 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev 2013-03-30 10:56:46 UTC
Try 3.8.5, it contains

Revert "drm/i915: write backlight harder"
Comment 4 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-03-30 11:16:34 UTC
3.8.5 will soon be in the Portage tree.

Please let us know whether that one works.
Comment 5 Mark Dominik Bürkle 2013-03-30 17:44:40 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> 3.8.5 will soon be in the Portage tree.
> 
> Please let us know whether that one works.

Yes, gentoo-sources-3.8.5 correctly sets the brightness to values as before suspend/resume.

Tried with brightness=max and brightness=min(off+1), both worked correctly in suspend/resume.

Setting Status to resolved/fixed.