4
Dell Inspiron brightness constantly changing (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/laptops@lemmy.world
2 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/47508691

When my laptop is on battery, the brightness changes depending on what's on the screen.

It changes when I maximize or minimize a window, when I open or close a tooltip, when the visual bell goes off in my terminal, when I move my mouse onto something, when I'm watching a video with no input.

It is extremely annoying and I would like it to stop happening.

All the solutions I have seen only work for a Dell Inspiron with Intel CPU, and mine is AMD.

System statsHardware: Dell Inspiron 15 with AMD Ryzen 7 CPU, 16GB RAM, AMD Radeon graphics.

Software: Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) with Linux 6.12.43 kernel and KDE Plasma 6.3.6 desktop

all 2 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Spitballing here, but I had a similar problem with an older Dell. I found an adaptive screen backlight setting hidden in the BIOS setup, but I don't recall what they named it. Evidently this was some hardware bullshit and fiddling with screen brightness settings in the OS didn't impact it in way whatsoever. Disabling it in the BIOS cured it of being annoying.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •