Kernel 6.1 breaks brightness control

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I updated my kernel to 6.1 and after rebooting my laptop Toshiba satellite L750, I noticed that the brightness is too high so I decided to decrease it, but it didn’t work, not with the GUI because it didn’t exist and not with he hardware options

After some digging on the problem I read an old blog that said kernel 6.1 breaks brightness control for old laptops, so I decided to reboot it and use an older kernel, 6.0 and the brightness control worked again.

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Also old iMacs like mine, but I can use ddcutil. The man page says:

RESTRICTIONS
       ddcutil does not support with laptop monitors, which do not implement DDC/CI.

This sentence isn’t very clear, but https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/brightness-issue-fedora37/78985/3 has a way to see if ddcutil can be used to control brightness on your system.

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Hi Mohammad - I had a similar issue pop up on my machine, although mine is an AMD (yours appears to be Intel based on the model?) - for mine, adding amdgpu.backlight=0 to the end of the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line in the file /etc/default/grub (using sudoedit from the terminal) did the trick, but it may be different for devices with Intel CPUs/integrated graphics?

Some of the parameters listed in the “Kernel command-line options” section of this page might be helpful to try?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/backlight#Kernel_command-line_options