Devuan bug report logs - #617
initscripts: brightness init script sets brightness to zero, thus blanking laptop display

Package: initscripts; Maintainer for initscripts is Devuan Developers <devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org>; Source for initscripts is src:sysvinit.

Reported by: Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 16:22:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in version 2.96-7+devuan1

Fixed in version 3.06-4devuan3

Done: dak@devuan.org

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From: Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>
To: 617@bugs.devuan.org, devuan developers internal list <devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org>, Olaf Meeuwissen <paddy-hack@member.fsf.org>
Cc: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] bug#617: initscripts: brightness init script sets brightness to zero, thus blanking laptop display
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 16:52:32 +0200
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Olaf Meeuwissen - 12.10.21, 13:14:17 CEST:
> Hi,
> 
> Martin Steigerwald writes:
> > Dear Mark.
> > 
> > Mark Hindley - 11.10.21, 19:06:44 CEST:
> >> The brightness initscript seems to save
> >> /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness to
> >> /var/lib/initscripts/brightness when it is stopped.
> >> 
> >> On your system, what does the
> >> /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness contain?
> > 
> > I can check tomorrow again. However… after I wrote "512" to the
> > "/var/lib/initscripts/brightness" file, brightness is set correctly
> > after reboot. So I am not sure I can reproduce the original
> > condition after the update anymore.
> > 
> > So or so, I think it would be good to ensure a minimum brightness
> > level, as a completely blank display can only be fixed with a live
> > Linux, SSH access or some other out of band management access.
> 
> Does this mean that even switching to the console (Ctrl-Alt-F1, etc)
> doesn't give you a screen where can see what you're doing?

Yes. I tried via Ctrl-Alt-F1 on the laptop and via SSH with "chvt 1". 
Nothing.

Ciao,
-- 
Martin

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Devuan bug report logs - #617 initscripts: brightness init script sets brightness to zero, thus blanking laptop display

Devuan bug report logs - #617
initscripts: brightness init script sets brightness to zero, thus blanking laptop display