Manjaro ARM 19.12 Official Release - PineBook Pro
could be that: there is a new brightness scale with dts changes. first set the brightness to 100%, try 60% for "normal" usage.
cd /sys/class/backlight/edp-backlight
su (for me, sudo did not work)
cat br*
echo 3000 >brightness (or more, me 3200)
(I'm not 100% sure, funct-F2 didn't work, after this it did)
(03-13-2020, 09:58 PM)wdt Wrote: cd /sys/class/backlight/edp-backlight
su  (for me, sudo did not work)
cat br*
echo 3000  >brightness    (or more, me 3200)
(I'm not 100% sure, funct-F2 didn't work, after this it did)

Can’t read the display, so dim that I can’t even see the mouse cursor!

I can get a terminal up with shortcut keys but still not able to read anything, it will probably be easier to reload my old version from the SD card...

Thanks for trying...
(03-13-2020, 07:45 PM)crocky Wrote: Just did the updates to the system and now things are really dark, can’t read a thing... Might have to plug the power in.... Hope that fixes it!

(03-13-2020, 07:45 PM)crocky Wrote: Just did the updates to the system and now things are really dark, can’t read a thing... Might have to plug the power in.... Hope that fixes it!

That did not do any good...

The capital M that first appears on the screen is bright for a split second then it goes very dull.. At the login screen it is very faint and I can’t read it...  Huh

After the updates, my screen came back very dim as well, but I was able to correct it using the keyboard (Fn-F2)
toggle to a tty
login
type your command and hit enter
profit
Here's my problem-- after that big round of updates, every so often when I'm browsing the web, when clicking a link or entering a URL, the screen locks. It happens in Chromium and qutebrowser, but not Firefox. I'll note that both Chromium and qutebrowser are built on webkit.
(03-13-2020, 09:58 PM)wdt Wrote: cd /sys/class/backlight/edp-backlight
su  (for me, sudo did not work)
cat br*
echo 3000  >brightness    (or more, me 3200)
(I'm not 100% sure, funct-F2 didn't work, after this it did)

got it working!

cd /sys/class/backlight/edp-backlight
su
enter the root password
cat br*
200
echo 3000 > brightness
cat br*
3000

I had to turn on the Power Management keys to get the keyboard function key to work, Xfce Power Manager - Display

thanks
i use brightnessctl: brightnessctl s 100%
Hello Everyone,
I see many have this brightness reduced after kernel was updated to 5.6.
Here is a Solution.
Please increase the default brightness from the Power Management App in your respective DE.
For XFCE
Go to XCFE Power Management > Display > Increase the Brightness and Apply it.
I had documented it on Manjaro Forum though.
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/screen-dim-o...=spikerguy

For KDE-Plasma
Go to Energy Saving > Screen Brightness > Increase it to around 50% and apply it.
This will get set for every boot.

Thanks.
Manjaro ARM Team.
Devices: Pinebook Pro & PinePhone.
5.6.0-0.4-MANJARO-ARM

LibreOffice:
Version: 6.4.1.2
Build ID: 6.4.1-3
CPU threads: 6; OS: Linux 5.6; UI render: default; VCL: kf5;
Locale: en-US (en_US.utf8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded

When working with documents in Writer, I get random pastes of what appears to be in my clipboard. I likely pasted the text once, but it shows up in multiple random locations in the document. I can go through and clean them up (delete them), and I swear they pop up elsewhere! I can go to Manjaro's clipboard and clear it, and they still seem to creep in.

I have found a similar post regarding LibreOffice, and they pointed to hardware, or OS issues.

Anyone else see these issues? I have not noticed this happening in any other application, but then again, I don't write a lot of text in any other application.
Dennis Hoshield
PBPro/ANSI/Manjaro


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