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Problem: Backlight function keys don't work in KDE, but brightness can be adjusted via "Display Brightness" GUI located in lower right power management icon.

Specs:

  • OS: RHEL 7
  • Window manager: KDE
  • Graphics card: NVIDIA Quadro M1000M
  • Laptop: HP ZBook Studio G3

Solutions attempted and failed:

  • Appending each of the following to grub line: acpi_backlight=vendor acpi_backlight=video acpi_backlight=native acpi_backlight= acpi_backlight=none
  • GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="acpi_osi=" does not make the function buttons work and also has a side effect of not allowing me to change the brightness from the GUI or with changing the value in /sys/class/backlight/. Major fail
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Unfortunately I was never able to get the function keys to lower the screen brightness.

Solution:

  • Get nux-desktop for centos 7 repo
  • Install xbacklight (testing xbacklight -10 and xbacklight +10 to validate it was going to work after install).
  • Disabled nux-desktop in yum
  • Setup keyboard shortcuts to lower/increase screen brightness. For some reason the 'Fn' button is not recognized in GNOME when setting up custom shortcut keys, so I had to use Ctrl + F5 and Ctrl + F6.

IMHO, this solution sucks, but it works.

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  • Fascinating... so it wasn't an issue with the kernel talking to the backlight via ACPI, but something between the keyboard and the kernel.
    – Hydraxan14
    May 19, 2017 at 22:45

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