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systemd/src/backlight
Mario Limonciello 9a224c307b backlight: Drop support for actual_brightness
Some AMD systems have support for features like custom brightness
curve or adaptive backlight management.  These features allow the
display driver to adjust the brightness based upon other factors
than just the user brightness request.

The user's brightness request is indicated in the 'brightness' file
but the effective result of the logic in the display driver is stored
in the 'actual_brightness' file.

This leads to problems when shutting the system down because the value
of 'actual_brightness' may be lower than 'brightness' and the wrong value
gets stored for the next boot.

For example if the brightness a user requested was 150, the actual_brightness
might be 130. So the next boot the brightness will be "set" to 130, but the
actual brightness might be 115. If the user reboots again it will be set to 115
for the next boot but the actual brightness might be 100. That is this gets worse
and worse each reboot cycle until the system eventually boots up at minimum
brightness.

Furthermore the kernel documentation indicates that the brightness and
actual_brightness files are not guaranteed to be the same values.

Due to this; drop the use of 'actual_brightness' when saving/restoring brightness
and instead rely only upon 'brightness'.

Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
2025-04-10 04:31:46 +09:00
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