The DRM Graphics Driver Changes Coming For Linux 4.16

[HeadsUpHigh]

If you press the brightness down button multiple times, nothing happens, until a moment the screen goes completely black and vica versa for the brightness up button.

The exact behavior is described in the (stalled) bugreport: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103781

Yea I have that too by default on fedora with my hd4600( haswell)

[ArthurBorsboom]

If you press the brightness down button multiple times, nothing happens, until a moment the screen goes completely black and vica versa for the brightness up button.

The exact behavior is described in the (stalled) bugreport: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103781

[FireBurn]

When I enabled fastboot by i915.fastboot=1 on 4.15-rc1 the brightness keys of the laptop responded different (unwanted behavior) than before.

Does anybody else notice this behavior?

Could you describe the behaviour?

[ArthurBorsboom]

When I enabled fastboot by i915.fastboot=1 on 4.15-rc1 the brightness keys of the laptop responded different (unwanted behavior) than before.

Does anybody else notice this behavior?

[phoronix]

Phoronix: The DRM Graphics Driver Changes Coming For Linux 4.16

With being past the cutoff of new features to be merged to DRM-Next for targeting the upcoming Linux 4.16 kernel merge window, here is a recap of the prominent changes to the Direct Rendering Manager drivers for this next kernel cycle...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.16-DRM-Highlights