ISO: Setting screen brightness does not work on Acer TravelMate B 117 (Braswell)

sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.brightness just gets ignored.

% kldstat | grep acpi
35    1 0xffffffff841f2000     20f0 acpi_wmi.ko
36    1 0xffffffff841f5000     2b88 acpi_video.ko

xbacklight does not do anything either.

% sudo intel_backlight                       
Current backlight value: -2147483648% (0/0)

Is also not working.

How to set brightness here?

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  • Created 3 years ago
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A lot of newer backlight won’t work without drm modules loaded. In my testing acpi_video won’t work too on those laptops. intel_backlight is a piece of garbage that should never have existed. The correct way to deal with those backlight is to use drm-kmod and backlight(8) on FreeBSD >= 13.