I would like to change brightness on my external Dell U2713HM monitor via DDC/IC (DDC Wikipedia), it's connected via DisplayPort. I have the integrated Intel HD4000 graphics.
When I run sudo get-edid, I get:
get-edid: get-edid version 2.0.0
Performing real mode VBE call
Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f00 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
Function supported
Call successful
VBE version 300
VBE string at 0x11100 "Intel(R) Sandybridge/Ivybridge Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS"
VBE/DDC service about to be called
Report DDC capabilities
Performing real mode VBE call
Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
Function supported
Call successful
Monitor and video card combination does not support DDC1 transfers
Monitor and video card combination supports DDC2 transfers
0 seconds per 128 byte EDID block transfer
Screen is not blanked during DDC transfer
Reading next EDID block
VBE/DDC service about to be called
Read EDID
Performing real mode VBE call
Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x0
Function supported
Call successful
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EDID claims 1 more blocks left
*********** Something special has happened!
Please contact the author, Matthew Kern
E-mail: pyrophobicman@gmail.com
Please include full output from this program (especially that to stderr)
Reading next EDID block
VBE/DDC service about to be called
Read EDID
Performing real mode VBE call
Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x0
Function supported
Call successful
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PT�K���qO�@��V^���)P0 5UP!�GK0KD281826L
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EDID claims 1 more blocks left
EDID blocks left is wrong.
Your EDID is probably invalid.
The important part is probably:
Monitor and video card combination supports DDC2 transfers
The brightness keys on my keyboard are working properly, since I see the backlight-change-notification in Ubuntu 12.10.
What can I do to get my brightness adjusted via software?
Thank you for your answers.
Best Answer
You find the necessary files here: https://packages.debian.org/unstable/ddccontrol
which I had to install. Then I had to run the following commands:
Now I can change the brightness to a value (here 53) representing the backlight level of my external monitor without the On-Screen-Display with the command:
Now I still need to get my special brightness keys from my keyboard linked to the brightness command (with paying attention to the max. brightness level). Any idea how to do that?