Auto brightness adjustment

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Hello, I am using msi modern 15. My screen brightness keeps auto adjusting I have tried everything but nothing seems to work. sometimes in low ambient light conditions screen goes full dim and vice versa. Even if I manually adjust the brightness after few seconds it will sart auto adjusitng itself. How can I turn this feature off

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Comical that it sounds like it's working but inverted.

"I have tried everything" doesn't help a ton so let's start with the most obvious that you have disabled idle dimming in your monitor power management. Also does this happen all the time or just when on AC or Battery?

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No, that’s the right way around. Don’t want it going full brightness when it’s dark and dark in bright sunshine.

Is there a setting in the bios? This could be feature of the laptop itself (I honestly don’t know though, just spit-ballin’)

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BIOS won't have anything, this is a top level feature you need a config to set to your liking. Which kinda comes back to what I said about inverted. I want my screen up in the dark. This is also contingent if you're one of those whacko's that runs white/bright UI. This is where you need to set your levels. Normally you want max insane BURN MY EYES OUT in sun light but max dim if you're battery is low but also this is subjective because we don't know if the screen is dim on max bright or ripping through your eyes with the power of a thousand suns. I had a ToChiba laptop that on max brightness was worthless heh.

Either way he just asked to disable it which in theory should be the idle time before dim sliders. I've never seen a config to actually set the correct limits and levels of this feature though in Linux.

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There will likely be a KDE setting for it (there’s a setting in KDE for pretty much everything) - check the power and display settings areas.

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Idle dimming is disabled on both battery and AC. It happens on both ac and battery.

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I have searched for a way to turn off auto brightness or something but couldn't find the option.

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