Brightness keys F4 and F5 not working on Dell XPS 15.6 Laptop

Question

Please provide me a solution how to fix this?

@SirCharlo A laptop's backlight is not controlled by the graphics card or graphics drivers. — Eliah Kagan, May 29 '12 at 05:25

SirCharlo · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-25T13:07:28.007

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Edit "/etc/default/grub" as root.

gksu gedit /etc/default/grub

Now, look for the line that looks like:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

Append "acpi_backlight=vendor acpi_osi=Linux" to the end of that line, before the end quotes, so that the line now looks something like this:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor acpi_osi=Linux"

Save and close the file, and run the following command:

sudo update-grub

Now, reboot, and test out the brightness keys. They should be working correctly now.

edited May 25 '12 at 13:07

answered May 25 '12 at 12:59

SirCharlo

That leaves my screen flickering unless it is on full brightness. – Rob Hyndman Nov 06 '12 at 02:06
Works on my Dell inspiron 3521 on Ubuntu 13.04 . Thanks :) – mac Jun 28 '13 at 05:25
I have Dell Inspiron 7520, this solved my problem, but the system became unstable. The brightness controls had some delay before actually changing the brightness, also when I pressed some brightness button the reaction was as if I pressed it twice. When I pressed those buttons quickly and chaotically the system could stuck, the mouse pointer speed reduced and the KDE even logged me off. So very weird behavior. – Vic Mar 04 '14 at 08:19

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 25 '12 at 11:44

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It's for the XPS 17, but maybe it works on the 15" model too.

answered May 25 '12 at 11:44

Timo

I didnt check ur solution,because the above one worked....still anyways thanks for the effort :) – Rahul May 28 '12 at 11:05

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