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Thread: Kali 2016.2 x64 install brightness FN keys and slider not working

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    Question Kali 2016.2 x64 install brightness FN keys and slider not working

    Hello,

    After installing Kali 2016.2 last night on my laptop the brightness fn keys are not working and neither is the slider. When I open the display control it shows the message could not get screen information. Under system details it also shows nothing for Graphics.

    I can adjust the brightness in a terminal with the following command xrandr --output eDP-1 --brightness 0.7

    With Kali 2016.1 x64 I do not have this problem however I am running it from an an encrypted usb flash drive in legacy mode.

    I decided to put 2016.2 on my ssd drive using uefi boot. I had some initial problems with the installer. I had created a usb installer using Rufus but it would not boot via uefi. In the forums I found a post saying that there was a second partition in the iso file and was able to boot the usb installer via uefi after extracted the efi img partition from the iso and put efi folder on the usb installer.

    There were two odd things about the install even though I booted to a usb flash drive to install it would not continue the install without the cdrom present and seemed to get most if not all the files from the cdrom.

    After the install the efibootmgr did not have any entries but I was able to use the laptops uefi to boot the efi file installed on the hard disk and then corrected the problem using apt-get install --reinstall grub-efi-amd64

    Im not sure if the install didnt go properly or what. Everything else seems to be working so far.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.
    Thanks

    Additional Details
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    Kali Version - Kali 2016.2
    Kali Architecture - 64 bit
    HP 450 g1 laptop 16GB RAM, 1TB Sandisk SSD,

    Hybrid Video card details via lspci -vnn | grep VGA -A 12

    00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0416] (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
    DeviceName: 512
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [103c:1942]
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 34
    Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
    Memory at a0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
    I/O ports at 5000 [size=64]
    [virtual] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
    Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
    Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
    Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features
    Kernel driver in use: i915
    Kernel modules: i915
    --
    01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Mars [Radeon HD 8670A/8670M/8750M] [1002:6600] (rev ff) (prog-if ff)
    !!! Unknown header type 7f
    Kernel driver in use: radeon
    Kernel modules: radeon


    lots of these errors in syslog - gnome-terminal-[13296]: GtkScrollbar 0x11fa2a0 is drawn without a current allocation. This should not happen.

    errors in dmesg - [ 110.720197] radeon 0000:01:00.0: VCE init error (-110) --- This error shows up when I boot to the encrypted flash drive also so Im not sure its related.

    xrandr info

    xrandr -q | grep " connected"
    eDP-1 connected primary 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 194mm

    # xrandr --verbose
    Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1366 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192
    eDP-1 connected primary 1366x768+0+0 (0x78) normal (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 194mm
    Identifier: 0x74
    Timestamp: 10152455
    Subpixel: unknown
    Gamma: 1.0:1.0:1.0
    Brightness: 0.70
    Clones:
    CRTC: 0
    CRTCs: 0 1 2
    Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000
    0.000000 1.000000 0.000000
    0.000000 0.000000 1.000000
    filter:
    _MUTTER_PRESENTATION_OUTPUT: 0
    EDID:
    00ffffffffffff000daebc1500000000
    251601049023137802d1f5935d599026
    1d505400000001010101010101010101
    010101010101d81d56df50002130432d
    480058c21000001ae41356df50002130
    432d480058c21000001a000000000000
    00000000000000000000000000000002
    000c4cff0a3c6419111d640000000026
    scaling mode: Full aspect
    supported: None, Full, Center, Full aspect
    Broadcast RGB: Automatic
    supported: Automatic, Full, Limited 16:235
    audio: auto
    supported: force-dvi, off, auto, on
    1366x768 (0x78) 76.400MHz +HSync -VSync *current +preferred
    h: width 1366 start 1433 end 1478 total 1589 skew 0 clock 48.08KHz
    v: height 768 start 772 end 780 total 801 clock 60.03Hz
    1366x768 (0x79) 50.920MHz +HSync -VSync
    h: width 1366 start 1433 end 1478 total 1589 skew 0 clock 32.05KHz
    v: height 768 start 772 end 780 total 801 clock 40.01Hz
    1360x768 (0x7a) 84.750MHz -HSync +VSync
    h: width 1360 start 1432 end 1568 total 1776 skew 0 clock 47.72KHz
    v: height 768 start 771 end 781 total 798 clock 59.80Hz
    1360x768 (0x7b) 72.000MHz +HSync -VSync
    h: width 1360 start 1408 end 1440 total 1520 skew 0 clock 47.37KHz
    v: height 768 start 771 end 781 total 790 clock 59.96Hz
    1024x768 (0x7c) 133.475MHz -HSync +VSync DoubleScan
    h: width 1024 start 1100 end 1212 total 1400 skew 0 clock 95.34KHz
    v: height 768 start 768 end 770 total 794 clock 60.04Hz
    1024x768 (0x7d) 65.000MHz -HSync -VSync
    h: width 1024 start 1048 end 1184 total 1344 skew 0 clock 48.36KHz
    v: height 768 start 771 end 777 total 806 clock 60.00Hz
    960x720 (0x7e) 117.000MHz -HSync +VSync DoubleScan
    h: width 960 start 1024 end 1128 total 1300 skew 0 clock 90.00KHz
    v: height 720 start 720 end 722 total 750 clock 60.00Hz
    928x696 (0x7f) 109.150MHz -HSync +VSync DoubleScan
    h: width 928 start 976 end 1088 total 1264 skew 0 clock 86.35KHz
    v: height 696 start 696 end 698 total 719 clock 60.05Hz
    896x672 (0x80) 102.400MHz -HSync +VSync DoubleScan
    h: width 896 start 960 end 1060 total 1224 skew 0 clock 83.66KHz
    v: height 672 start 672 end 674 total 697 clock 60.01Hz
    960x600 (0x81) 77.000MHz +HSync -VSync DoubleScan
    h: width 960 start 984 end 1000 total 1040 skew 0 clock 74.04KHz
    v: height 600 start 601 end 604 total 617 clock 60.00Hz
    960x540 (0x82) 69.250MHz +HSync -VSync DoubleScan
    h: width 960 start 984 end 1000 total 1040 skew 0 clock 66.59KHz
    v: height 540 start 541 end 544 total 555 clock 59.99Hz
    800x600 (0x83) 81.000MHz +HSync +VSync DoubleScan
    h: width 800 start 832 end 928 total 1080 skew 0 clock 75.00KHz
    v: height 600 start 600 end 602 total 625 clock 60.00Hz
    800x600 (0x84) 40.000MHz +HSync +VSync
    h: width 800 start 840 end 968 total 1056 skew 0 clock 37.88KHz
    v: height 600 start 601 end 605 total 628 clock 60.32Hz
    800x600 (0x85) 36.000MHz +HSync +VSync
    h: width 800 start 824 end 896 total 1024 skew 0 clock 35.16KHz
    v: height 600 start 601 end 603 total 625 clock 56.25Hz

    <snip>

    VGA-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
    Identifier: 0x75
    Timestamp: 10152455
    Subpixel: unknown
    Clones:
    CRTCs: 0 1 2
    Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000
    0.000000 1.000000 0.000000
    0.000000 0.000000 1.000000
    filter:
    HDMI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
    Identifier: 0x76
    Timestamp: 10152455
    Subpixel: unknown
    Clones:
    CRTCs: 0 1 2
    Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000
    0.000000 1.000000 0.000000
    0.000000 0.000000 1.000000
    filter:
    aspect ratio: Automatic
    supported: Automatic, 4:3, 16:9
    Broadcast RGB: Automatic
    supported: Automatic, Full, Limited 16:235
    audio: auto
    supported: force-dvi, off, auto, on

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    Thank you haolevu

    Anyone know if there is anyway to find out if the display control showing the message could not get screen information and no graphics listed Under system details is the same issue? Everything Ive looked up points to X should autodetect it so perhaps its related to this same bug?

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