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 Patrick DUPRÉ                                 | | email: pdu...@gmx.com
 Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | |
 Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale           | |
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> Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2016 at 10:06 PM
> From: "Samuel Sieb" <sam...@sieb.net>
> To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Subject: Re: brightness
>
> On 09/03/2016 12:54 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 (rev 
> > 06)
> > 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M] (rev a2)
> > lsmod
> > video                  40960  3 i915,msi_wmi,nouveau
> >
> Ugh, it's one of those hybrid systems.  Try looking into PRIME.  It's 
> the current method of dealing with these systems using open-source drivers.
> 
> > When I boot, I also use:
> > nomodeset vga=normal

I can run without vga=normal, but if I run without nomodeset, the graphics
never starts and I have to restart the machine.
But even without vga=normal, I get the same behavior.


> Do you really need this?  It is probably part of your problem.
> 
> > /sys/class/backlight
> > is empty
> >
> > None of the fn key works
> >
> That would explain why you have no backlight control.  Try booting 
> without the "nomodeset" and see if that makes any difference.  If not, 
> then see if you can find an existing bug report for your laptop.  You 
> didn't mention which one you have.
> 
> > I also try to run:
> > NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-352.63.run
> >
> If you really want to use the proprietary NVidia driver, get it from 
> rpmfusion.  At least then, it's easier to revert if necessary and it's 
> much more likely to work.

Do you mean:
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
?

The machine is a MSI GE62-6GD

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