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<body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:jani.nikula@intel.com" title="Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>"> <span class="fn">Jani Nikula</span></a>
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title="RESOLVED NOTOURBUG - Setting minimal brightness level on HP EliteBook Folio G1 and HP Elite x2 1013 G3 turn off backlight"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108618">bug 108618</a>
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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed"
title="RESOLVED NOTOURBUG - Setting minimal brightness level on HP EliteBook Folio G1 and HP Elite x2 1013 G3 turn off backlight"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108618#c3">Comment # 3</a>
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bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed"
title="RESOLVED NOTOURBUG - Setting minimal brightness level on HP EliteBook Folio G1 and HP Elite x2 1013 G3 turn off backlight"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108618">bug 108618</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:jani.nikula@intel.com" title="Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>"> <span class="fn">Jani Nikula</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to russianneuromancer from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=108618#c2">comment #2</a>)
<span class="quote">> Jani, if possible, could you please reconsider your resolution on this issue?
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> > The i915 kernel driver is not the place to work around hp_wmi hotkey issues.
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> Sure, but this two HP devices was just example of case when issue is more
> severe due to not working hotkeys. I just disabled backlight on GPD Win 2
> for example, just by decreasing brightness, but in GPD case I at least can
> enable it back by using working hotkeys. I guess many other vendors affected
> too.
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> Also, don't you think it would be easier to solve this on kernel driver
> level, instead of fix every desktop environment separately? Latter will take
> a few years in best case scenario.</span >
Experience has taught me going the "easy but wrong" route usually gets more
complicated over the years. The kernel driver will have to carry this type of
changes essentially indefinitely, and any further changes will need to take
them into account.</pre>
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