Backlight control on XPS
This post is more of a reminder for myself on how I fixed an issue with Dell XPS 15.
The issue is that the Fn
key to control screen brightness (using F11
and
F12
) doesn't work and results in this error in the logs:
[42134.228185] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP.BRT6.LCD], AE_NOT_FOUND (20190816/psargs-330) [42134.228216] No Local Variables are initialized for Method [BRT6] [42134.228220] Initialized Arguments for Method [BRT6]: (2 arguments defined for method invocation) [42134.228222] Arg0: 000000008e36102a <Obj> Integer 0000000000000002 [42134.228232] Arg1: 00000000cd43b166 <Obj> Integer 0000000000000000 [42134.228247] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP.BRT6 due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20190816/psparse-529) [42134.228692] ACPI Error: Aborting method \EV5 due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20190816/psparse-529) [42134.229069] ACPI Error: Aborting method \SMEE due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20190816/psparse-529) [42134.229455] ACPI Error: Aborting method \SMIE due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20190816/psparse-529) [42134.229734] ACPI Error: Aborting method \NEVT due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20190816/psparse-529) [42134.229999] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.LPCB.ECDV._Q66 due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20190816/psparse-529)
The error has been reported many times in the last year.
The only thing that worked for me was using this: icc-brightness. It is basically a workaround the BIOS/Kernel issue, but it works very well.