Brightness adjust problem

[jiytu]

Hi I recently switched from Win11 to Linux mint. I got several downsides like no wifi, low volume etc. now my unsolved matter is my "Brightness settings can't be adjust. I tried all the solutions that I could find here. But It seems I got my own problem. Maybe due to AMD driver needed ? Pls help.

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jiyuu@Mint-L:~$ inxi -G
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD driver: N/A
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: ati,vesa
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon gpu: N/A resolution: 1920x1080~77Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.6 256 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 22.2.5

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jiyuu@Mint-L:~$ killall Xorg
Xorg(1192): Operation not permitted
Xorg: no process found

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jiyuu@Mint-L:~$ sudo apt-get install fglrx-core
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package fglrx-core
jiyuu@Mint-L:~$ sudo apt-get install amd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package amd

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jiyuu@Mint-L:~$ inxi -Fxmz
System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-67-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.3.0
    Desktop: Cinnamon 5.6.8 Distro: Linux Mint 21.1 Vera
    base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 82VG v: IdeaPad 1 15AMN7
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0T76466 WIN
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: KSCN21WW date: 09/07/2022
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 29.8 Wh (72.3%) condition: 41.2/42.0 Wh (98.0%)
    volts: 12.0 min: 11.2 model: Sunwoda L21D3PF0 status: Discharging
Memory:
  RAM: total: 5.53 GiB used: 2.73 GiB (49.4%)
  RAM Report:
    permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: AMD Ryzen 3 7320U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64
    type: MT MCP arch: Zen note: check rev: 0 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 2 MiB
    L3: 4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 988 high: 1398 min/max: 900/6375 boost: enabled cores:
    1: 898 2: 869 3: 838 4: 834 5: 838 6: 838 7: 1398 8: 1397 bogomips: 38328
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A bus-ID: 04:00.0
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: ati,vesa
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon gpu: N/A resolution: 1920x1080~77Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.6 256 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 22.2.5
    direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    bus-ID: 04:00.1
  Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor
    vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A bus-ID: 04:00.5
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 04:00.6
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-67-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek vendor: Lenovo driver: rtw89_8852be v: N/A port: 2000
    bus-ID: 02:00.0
  IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-2:2
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: up address: <filter>
    bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.2
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 16.05 GiB (3.4%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Micron model: MTFDKCD512QFM-1BD1AABLA
    size: 476.94 GiB temp: 36.9 C
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 467.89 GiB used: 16.03 GiB (3.4%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 21.2 MiB (4.2%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 283 Uptime: 15m Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.3.0
  Packages: 2630 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 inxi: 3.3.13

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Hi I recently switched from Win11 to Linux mint. I got several downsides like no wifi, low volume etc. now my unsolved matter is my "Brightness settings can't be adjust. I tried all the solutions that I could find here. But It seems I got my own problem. Maybe due to AMD driver needed ?

Welcome to the forum, jiytu.

Tips for Troubleshooting Graphics Issues (including external monitors not working) which is pinned to the top of the Graphics Cards & Monitors forum explains the drivers for AMD are in the kernel. One does not separately load AMD graphic drivers.

Your system needs a newer kernel. The newer kernel will have the necessary drivers. You can install the latest 6.1-oem kernel with

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sudo apt-get install linux-oem-22.04c

and reboot. See if that addresses the issue.

Please also make sure you have run all the updates in Update Manager. Your system may also need newer linux-firmware packages.

[jiytu]

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
linux-headers-6.1.0-1007-oem linux-headers-oem-22.04c
linux-image-6.1.0-1007-oem linux-image-oem-22.04c
linux-modules-6.1.0-1007-oem linux-oem-6.1-headers-6.1.0-1007
Suggested packages:
fdutils linux-oem-6.1-tools
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-headers-6.1.0-1007-oem linux-headers-oem-22.04c
linux-image-6.1.0-1007-oem linux-image-oem-22.04c
linux-modules-6.1.0-1007-oem linux-oem-22.04c
linux-oem-6.1-headers-6.1.0-1007
0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 126 MB of archives.
After this operation, 755 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

Whoa I definitely did not see this for updating my system. Thank you ! how do i get to access for codes like this by self ? where should I look it out for ?

[Pjotr]

For the brightness you can try this progressive scheme:
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c ... y.html#ID4
(item 4 and further)

[jiytu]

...done.
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools:
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-1007-oem
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub:
Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub'
Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub.d/50_linuxmint.cfg'
Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub.d/init-select.cfg'
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-1007-oem
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-1007-oem
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-67-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-67-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-56-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-56-generic
Warning: os-prober will be executed to detect other bootable partitions.
Its output will be used to detect bootable binaries on them and create new boot entries.
Adding boot menu entry for UEFI Firmware Settings ...
done
jiyuu@Mint-L:~$ still can't do the brightness adjust stuff.

[jiytu]

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
# info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
GRUB_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_osi=Linux"


Done here no effect. Installed Light still nothing oh my gawwdd

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Done here no effect. Installed Light still nothing oh my gawwdd

It doesn't make sense to make random adjustments for brightness until we verify the proper graphics drivers are in place. I don't see where you did that. As I indicated in my post, there was no guarantee a newer kernel would be enough to get the driver to load. Please undo the changes you made from the website link and provide the output of

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inxi -Fxxxrz

and we can check to see if the driver did load.

[jiytu]

Done here no effect. Installed Light still nothing oh my gawwdd

It doesn't make sense to make random adjustments for brightness until we verify the proper graphics drivers are in place. I don't see where you did that. As I indicated in my post, there was no guarantee a newer kernel would be enough to get the driver to load. Please undo the changes you made from the website link and provide the output of

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inxi -Fxxxrz

and we can check to see if the driver did load.

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System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-67-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.3.0
    Desktop: Cinnamon 5.6.8 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0
    Distro: Linux Mint 21.1 Vera base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 82VG v: IdeaPad 1 15AMN7
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 v: IdeaPad 1 15AMN7
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0T76466 WIN
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: KSCN21WW date: 09/07/2022
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 24.2 Wh (59.2%) condition: 40.9/42.0 Wh (97.4%)
    volts: 11.7 min: 11.2 model: Sunwoda L21D3PF0 type: Li-poly
    serial: <filter> status: Discharging
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: AMD Ryzen 3 7320U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64
    type: MT MCP smt: enabled arch: Zen note: check rev: 0 cache: L1: 256 KiB
    L2: 2 MiB L3: 4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1868 high: 3328 min/max: 900/6375 boost: enabled cores:
    1: 838 2: 838 3: 1663 4: 3153 5: 2331 6: 3328 7: 1397 8: 1397
    bogomips: 38331
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1506 class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: ati,vesa
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon gpu: N/A display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x286mm (20.0x11.3")
    s-diag: 583mm (23")
  Monitor-1: default res: 1920x1080 hz: 77 size: N/A
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.6 256 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 22.2.5
    direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 04:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1640 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor
    vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 04:00.5
    chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 04:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
    class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-67-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek vendor: Lenovo driver: rtw89_8852be v: N/A pcie:
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 2000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:b852
    class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-2:2 chip-ID: 0bda:4853 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: up address: <filter>
    bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.2 sub-v: 8852 hci-v: 5.2 rev: b
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 19.72 GiB (4.1%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Micron model: MTFDKCD512QFM-1BD1AABLA
    size: 476.94 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
    rev: 1001V3LN temp: 36.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 467.89 GiB used: 19.7 GiB (4.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 21.2 MiB (4.2%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 87.5 MiB (4.3%) priority: -2
    file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: 2669 apt: 2662 flatpak: 7
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/amdgpu-proprietary.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/amdgpu.list
    1: deb https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu/5.4.3/ubuntu focal main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft-edge.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-dbgsym-repositories.list
    1: deb http://ddebs.ubuntu.com jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    2: deb http://ddebs.ubuntu.com jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http://kartolo.sby.datautama.net.id/linuxmint vera main upstream import backport
    2: deb http://mirror.rise.ph/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http://mirror.rise.ph/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http://mirror.rise.ph/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-source-repositories.list
    1: deb-src http://kartolo.sby.datautama.net.id/linuxmint vera main upstream import backport
    2: deb-src http://mirror.rise.ph/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb-src http://mirror.rise.ph/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb-src http://mirror.rise.ph/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rocm.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/5.4.3 focal main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf] http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main
Info:
  Processes: 301 Uptime: 4h 15m wakeups: 4997 Memory: 5.53 GiB
  used: 3.12 GiB (56.3%) Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers:
  gcc: 11.3.0 alt: 11/12 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: gnome-terminal
  inxi: 3.3.13

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  linux-headers-6.1.0-1007-oem linux-headers-oem-22.04c
  linux-image-6.1.0-1007-oem linux-image-oem-22.04c
  linux-modules-6.1.0-1007-oem linux-oem-6.1-headers-6.1.0-1007
Suggested packages:
  fdutils linux-oem-6.1-tools
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-headers-6.1.0-1007-oem linux-headers-oem-22.04c
  linux-image-6.1.0-1007-oem linux-image-oem-22.04c
  linux-modules-6.1.0-1007-oem linux-oem-22.04c
  linux-oem-6.1-headers-6.1.0-1007
0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 126 MB of archives.
After this operation, 755 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 

Whoa I definitely did not see this for updating my system. Thank you ! how do i get to access for codes like this by self ? where should I look it out for ?

Did you answer Y at the last step?

The data you just posted indicates the newer kernel is not being used. You still have the same kernel as when you originally posted which means there is no graphics driver loaded.

System:
Kernel: 5.15.0-67-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.3.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 5.6.8 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0
Distro: Linux Mint 21.1 Vera base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy

Please make sure to remove anything you used from these repositories and also remove the repositories. They will not work with the OEM kernels.

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Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/amdgpu-proprietary.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/amdgpu.list
    1: deb https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu/5.4.3/ubuntu focal main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rocm.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/5.4.3 focal main

[jiytu]

I Did typed Y for the process to continue, Uhm I don't know how would I do like removing anything I used from these repositories.

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I Did typed Y for the process to continue

If you only have Linux Mint installed, then I have no guesses as to why your kernel did not change, but the fact it did not change is a problem. What is the output of

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uname -r

Uhm I don't know how would I do like removing anything I used from these repositories.

Your original inxi output seems to indicate nothing was used from them, but I don't know why your kernel would not update and was just taking guesses as to what might be a problem.

You did not install grub-customizer, did you?

[jiytu]

I think will just reinstall everything to see if I can do better on the installation.

[jiytu]

jiyuu@Mint-L:~$ uname -r
6.1.0-1007-oem
jiyuu@Mint-L:~$

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jiyuu@Mint-L:~$ uname -r
6.1.0-1007-oem
jiyuu@Mint-L:~$

Was that before or after installation?

[jiytu]

I reinstalled everything and updated my machine. luckily no probs now. hehe Im enjoying this

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I reinstalled everything and updated my machine. luckily no probs now. hehe Im enjoying this

It sounds like the newer kernel and its newer graphics driver are now installed. If your issue is resolved, please go to your first post in this topic, click the pencil icon, and add [SOLVED] to the beginning of the title so others know you are no longer seeking help on this issue.