Hello everyone,
I have an HP Envy 4 with a 2nd Generation Intel chipset and Intel Core i3 inside. Only Fedora 19 is installed; no other operating systems exist on the machine.
The only way I can get the system to boot correctly is to use the VESA driver and nomodeset. Otherwise, the display will not light up once the first 7 seconds of booting the kernel have started; I see something about DRM shortly before and a few lines of Fedora (the init scripts, I think) and then everything goes blank.
Now, with Vesa on, everything works *great*, (and that includes everything, including trivial parts like Bluetooth), except for one problem: the brightness control.
Please read what I've tried so far, because I am seriously STUCK:
- Brightness controls in System Settings do not appear when I look for them (I have used Gnome 3 for 2 years now, and Gnome since 2009).
- xgamma and xbacklight do not work when installed.
- Adding the two lines "Device": Option "RegistryDwords" "EnableBrightnessControl=1" in my Xorg.conf does nothing.
- Adding acpi_backlight=vendor acpi_osi=Linux to Grub did absolutely nothing. (And yes, I know how to update grub on Fedora and others).
- Paths to the different display paths in /proc and /sys that I have seen by searching Google did absolutely nothing or the paths did not exist.
Now, I thought it was because firmware was missing. So I enabled RPMFusion on it and tried to install some extra libraries, etc. Still nothing. That led me to download the Intel Graphics Installer for Linux, which then complains that the distribution is not supported.
This was odd, because the installer (.rpm) was for Fedora 18 (64-bit) and I'm running Fedora 19 (64-bit) on the machine -- just one version later.
I'm totally stuck on this, and am really angry that one singular issue is keeping me from using a really great notebook that I wiped Windows off of. I've run Linux for years, solved most of my own issues, but I've never been closer to giving up on running it on a computer until now.
Can anyone help with this issue or can suggest a fix? Or, better yet, has anyone else experienced this issue?
Thanks for your time with this! :-)
I have an HP Envy 4 with a 2nd Generation Intel chipset and Intel Core i3 inside. Only Fedora 19 is installed; no other operating systems exist on the machine.
The only way I can get the system to boot correctly is to use the VESA driver and nomodeset. Otherwise, the display will not light up once the first 7 seconds of booting the kernel have started; I see something about DRM shortly before and a few lines of Fedora (the init scripts, I think) and then everything goes blank.
Now, with Vesa on, everything works *great*, (and that includes everything, including trivial parts like Bluetooth), except for one problem: the brightness control.
Please read what I've tried so far, because I am seriously STUCK:
- Brightness controls in System Settings do not appear when I look for them (I have used Gnome 3 for 2 years now, and Gnome since 2009).
- xgamma and xbacklight do not work when installed.
- Adding the two lines "Device": Option "RegistryDwords" "EnableBrightnessControl=1" in my Xorg.conf does nothing.
- Adding acpi_backlight=vendor acpi_osi=Linux to Grub did absolutely nothing. (And yes, I know how to update grub on Fedora and others).
- Paths to the different display paths in /proc and /sys that I have seen by searching Google did absolutely nothing or the paths did not exist.
Now, I thought it was because firmware was missing. So I enabled RPMFusion on it and tried to install some extra libraries, etc. Still nothing. That led me to download the Intel Graphics Installer for Linux, which then complains that the distribution is not supported.
This was odd, because the installer (.rpm) was for Fedora 18 (64-bit) and I'm running Fedora 19 (64-bit) on the machine -- just one version later.
I'm totally stuck on this, and am really angry that one singular issue is keeping me from using a really great notebook that I wiped Windows off of. I've run Linux for years, solved most of my own issues, but I've never been closer to giving up on running it on a computer until now.
Can anyone help with this issue or can suggest a fix? Or, better yet, has anyone else experienced this issue?
Thanks for your time with this! :-)
