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KDE Display Brightness Control Not Working on OpenMandriva

I am currently using OpenMandriva Lx ROME and I love it. It boots and loads really fast on my AMD Ryzen laptop. Unfortunately, KDE's brightness control is not working and I have to use xrandr to control the brightness manually.

The Simple Solution

After reading random forums about this not-really-uncommon issue, I've successfully solved the issue by these following simple steps:

  1. Using your favourite text editor, edit /etc/default/grub
    In GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
    remove acpi_backlight=vendor
    then, add amdgpu.backlight=0
  2. Update grub:
    sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
  3. Reboot the system. Now, the KDE's brightness control should work properly.



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