I've had an issue with brightness control ever since I moved to Linux, on all distros (pop, fedora, now solus). The keyboard keys don't work and neither does the slider in the system.
I was using GNOME mostly until a couple of weeks back and I used to install an extension called Soft Brightness as a workaround for this. It would make the slider work at least even if the keys still didn't work. I'm not able to find something like that on Plasma.
Laptop: Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 ARH05. Ryzen 4600H processor with AMD integrated graphics and a discrete GTX 1650 mobile GPU.
6 Comments
ColdWater@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
Maybe driver issue?, my laptop brightness also does not work on stable release distros but it'll work on rolling release distros
absurdity_of_it_all@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
But Solus is rolling release.
ColdWater@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
OK then, if you go to plasma displaysettings you see the name of your display so what does it show?
absurdity_of_it_all@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
Display & Monitor says Built in Screen. The brightness slider here doesn't work either. What else can I check?
ColdWater@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
Odd, everything seem normal I thought it show some weird name in display setting, but you can try 3rd party brightness control listed here
absurdity_of_it_all@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
I remember trying all this on GNOME before finding the extension. But I'll check again, thank you