Bug 1217440

Summary:	nvidia 545.29.02 breaks backlight brightness control on the laptop
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed	Reporter:	Petr Valenta <petr>
Component:	X11 3rd Party Driver	Assignee:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P3 - Medium
Version:	Current
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Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE Tumbleweed
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Description Petr Valenta 2023-11-23 10:16:04 UTC

Hello,
after upgrading to latest nvidia (545.29.02) brightness control doesn't work on my Lenovo legion laptop.

There is already patch that fix this issue:
https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/files/13310810/0001-nvkms-initialize-brightnessType-in-_BACKLIGHT_BRIGHT.patch.txt

More info: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/80299

Workaround: downgrade nvidia packages

Thanks

Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2023-11-23 20:00:14 UTC

Fixed packages of driver update 545.29.06 are already on-the-way.

- Update to version 545.29.06
  * Fixed a regression that prevented setting backlight brightness levels.
  [...]

Comment 2 Stefan Dirsch 2023-11-23 20:00:35 UTC

Closing as fixed.