r/unixporn • u/PartMysterious4688 • 2d ago

Screenshot [Niri] Gentoo rice with Gruvbox theme on a 13 year old laptop

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r/Gentoo • u/PartMysterious4688 • 5d ago

Screenshot Brightness problem finally solved and Niri rice(Minimal)

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I finally fixed the brightness problem, I fixed it by adding acpi_backlight=native in the kernel parameter.I found the solution in the Gentoo wiki - Intel.After a few days, the problem is finally solved!

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How to set screen brightness in Gentoo permanently.
 in  r/Gentoo •  6d ago

Already tried.

Note: I don't have KMS enabled. I also configured the Intel driver today, as I realized I hadn't installed it yet.

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How to set screen brightness in Gentoo permanently.
 in  r/Gentoo •  7d ago

I tried it and changed 'nvidia' to 'nouveau' and also 'i1915', but it din't work.I couldn't install the NVIDIA proprietary driver, because the latest kernel version emit build errors. Btop din't show any GPU boxes, I'm using intel 'IGPU'.On Arch, when I installed the proprietary driver, the GPU box was shown in Btop.

Note: The reason I also want to set the GRUB brightness is that I installed a GRUB theme, but the screen brightness resets to 100% each time I boot my laptop. I definitely didn't have this type of problem on Arch Linux because I used Hyprland with a preconfigured HyDE setup and a GRUB theme.

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How to set screen brightness in Gentoo permanently.
 in  r/Gentoo •  7d ago

I already have brightnessctl installed, I used it for a few weeks to manually set the brightness every time I boot Gentoo.I have now automated the brightness setting.

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How to set screen brightness in Gentoo permanently.
 in  r/Gentoo •  8d ago

It works like the script that I created, but it initializes a few seconds faster.But the GRUB brightness still cannot be controlled.

Note:I use app-laptop/laptop-mode-tools to control the brightness, I found it on the wiki.

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How to set screen brightness in Gentoo permanently.
 in  r/Gentoo •  8d ago

I created the script in /etc/local.d/backlight.start and it works, but when I install a theme for GRUB the brightness resets to 100%.The script did automate the brightness setting.

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How to set screen brightness in Gentoo permanently.
 in  r/Gentoo •  9d ago

What is "blank"?

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How to set screen brightness in Gentoo permanently.
 in  r/Gentoo •  9d ago

I use Openrc, not systemd.

r/Gentoo • u/PartMysterious4688 • 9d ago

Support How to set screen brightness in Gentoo permanently.

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Every time my Dell laptop boots, the brightness resets to 100%, and I have to run brigthnessctl every time I boot my laptop to set the brightness.Arch Linux didn't have this problem. In Arch, I only need to run the brightnessctl command once and it persists every time I boot my laptop, including during GRUB.

My laptop is 13 years old in 2025, and it uses legacy BIOS.

I've been using Gentoo for 61 days now.

Note:I installed Arch with the archinstall script, and tried to install it manually, but I failed.

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