Bug 203525

Summary:	brightness with function buttons Acer Aspire A315-41 notebook with AMD Ryzen 5 2500U
Product:	Drivers	Reporter:	Erik (erikjohansson)
Component:	Video(DRI - non Intel)	Assignee:	drivers_video-dri
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	alexdeucher
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	4.19.37 5.0.11 5.1	Subsystem:
Regression:	No	Bisected commit-id:
Attachments:	dmesg fixed 4.19.39 dmesg broken 4.19.35 dmesg fixed 4.19.37

Description Erik 2019-05-06 14:02:26 UTC

I got an Acer Aspire A315-41 notebook with AMD Ryzen 5 2500U and i have had problems with brightness not working out of the box (OTB) if i used function buttons.
The thing is that i found that it started to work with linux-4.19.37 (fixed) but it didn't work with linux-4.19.35 (broken).

It works from 4.19.37 but it doesn't work in later kernel series such as linux-5.0.11 or linux-5.1 and i think the fix should also be in newer kernels.
I started to bisect but linux-4.19.36 doesn't boot with my hardware and after many bisect skip and compiling i gave up.
Do anyone know what commit that could have fixed it?
Or why 4.19.36 won't boot on my hardware (if there was some known regression) so i can perform an bisect.

Comment 1 Alex Deucher 2019-05-06 14:07:05 UTC

Can you attach your dmesg outputs for both the working kernels and non-working kernels?

Comment 2 Erik 2019-05-06 15:39:54 UTC

Created attachment 282647 [details]
dmesg fixed 4.19.39

Comment 3 Erik 2019-05-06 15:40:32 UTC

Created attachment 282649 [details]
dmesg broken 4.19.35

Comment 4 Erik 2019-05-06 17:41:15 UTC

Created attachment 282653 [details]
dmesg fixed 4.19.37

Comment 5 Erik 2019-05-06 22:43:52 UTC

By adding commit b59dfdaef173677b0b7e10f375226c0a1114fd20 i was able to boot 4.19.36.
I tried 4.19.36 but it was broken.
4.19.36 broken and 4.19.37 fixed.
I then ran a bisect but i wasn't able to to find the commit that fixed it.
I don't know why the bisect went thru all steps without finding the fix.

Comment 6 Erik 2019-05-08 10:42:33 UTC

The bisect was working i only didn't trust it.
What causes the change in behavior wasn't caused by resent fixes, well it was but it wasn't.
What makes it work is bumping SUBLEVEL above 36.
I tried bumping SUBLEVEL of 5.1 and 5.1.36 was broken while 5.1.37 was working.

Comment 7 Erik 2019-05-08 14:21:35 UTC

Is there anything more i can do to find out what's going on?

Comment 8 Erik 2020-02-01 18:36:58 UTC

Since "echo 100 > /sys/class/backlight/amdgpu_bl0/brightness" works it's not a kernel problem but rather userspace.