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I cannot change the brightness of my HP EliteBook 8760w. When I press the brightness keys, ubuntu shoes the meter going down and up, but the screen brightness does not change.

I am using nvidia drivers 367.57 for the Quadro 3000M.

user@laptop:~$ ls /sys/class/backlight/
acpi_video0
user@laptop:~$ cat /sys/class/backlight/*/brightness 
20
user@laptop:~$ cat /sys/class/backlight/*/max_brightness 
20
user@laptop:~$ sudo su -c "echo 5 > /sys/class/backlight/*/brightness"
user@laptop:~$ cat /sys/class/backlight/*/brightness 
5

Is there anything else I could try to change the brightness?

I tried changing /etc/default/grub to add additional parameters to acpi_backlight. The following happens:

(not defining)  only acpi_video0 exists and brightness does not work
video           only acpi_video0 exists and brightness does not work
vendor          no folder in /sys/class/backlight
native          no folder in /sys/class/backlight
feedc0de
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  • Edit /etc/default/grub , add the parameter acpi_backlight=vendor to the variable GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT save the file, run sudo update-grub and restart. Here are the references https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/backlight and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Debugging/Backlight. – Hölderlin Jan 22 '17 at 09:48
  • When I add that option, there is no folder in /sys/cclass/backlight at all! – feedc0de Jan 22 '17 at 17:13
  • Try one of the other parameters which are listed in the wiki of archlinux in section "Kernel command-line options". If you say "screen" do you men a external monitor or the display of your laptop? – Hölderlin Jan 22 '17 at 17:25
  • when i define acpi_backlight=vendor it behaves exactly like without defining. when defining it as vendor or native the acpi_video0 folder is missing completely. i am speaking of the built-in laptop monitor. I know the brightness worked years ago... on some ubuntu dist. – feedc0de Jan 22 '17 at 23:10
  • Try the solution from user:Dabor in this post but use a parameter where the acpi_video0 folder is not missing. What I don't understand that you said one comment before that the parameter vendor gives you no acpi_video0 folder as well. – Hölderlin Jan 22 '17 at 23:18
  • Ah sorry! My last comment is wrong. I cannot modify it anymore. Please see my update on the question! – feedc0de Jan 23 '17 at 06:58

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Worked on my Ubuntu 18.04.03:

sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall

And then restart

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