no brightness control in {455,460} after update from 450
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
OEM Priority Project |
New
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High
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Unassigned | ||
nvidia-graphics-drivers-455 (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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High
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Unassigned | ||
nvidia-graphics-drivers-460 (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
On my Lenovo X1 Extreme with GPU: NVIDIA Corporation GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile]:
WORKS FINE:
nvidia-driver-450: 450.102.
NO BRIGHTNESS CONTROL:
nvidia-driver-455: 455.38-
nvidia-driver-460: 460.32.
nvidia-driver-460: 460.39-
*WORKAROUND: See comment #11 (add nvidia drivers to initramfs).
*Note that 460 fixes it for a 20.04 ThinkPad P73 per comment #6, but not for my 18.04.5 Lenovo ThinkPad X1 per comment #5.
Updating to nvidia-driver-455 (or -460) results in loss of brightness control. On boot, the laptop display brightness is somewhat less than fully bright and cannot be changed. The brightness up/down keys do pop up the gnome gui brightness widget, and /sys/class/
Problem occurs with either version of nvidia-driver-455 (the archive or the ~graphics-
Normal functionality returns if I downgrade to any version of nvidia-driver-450.
Also observed: 455 and 460 temporarily display some pixel garbage while mode-switching during the graphic login sequence. Only a minor glitch, but note that 450 does not exhibit that issue either.
Note also that manually applying this to /lib/systemd/
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Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic
kernel: 5.4.0-54-generic #60~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Nov 6 17:25:16 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers-455 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → High |
description: | updated |
Changed in oem-priority: | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
tags: | added: oem-priority |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers-455 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
status: | In Progress → Confirmed |
Changed in oem-priority: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in oem-priority: | |
status: | Confirmed → New |
Same issue on Lenovo ThinkPat P76. Brightness control was working before.
$ uname -r
5.4.0-59-generic
$ lspci |grep -i vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU104GLM [Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile / Max-Q] (rev a1)
$ sudo lshw -c video
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0 ed000000- edffffff memory: c0000000- cfffffff memory: d0000000- d1ffffff ioport: 2000(size= 128) memory: ee080000- ee0fffff
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: TU104GLM [Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile / Max-Q]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
resources: irq:197 memory:
Downgrade to 450 works for me too.