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Google Pixelbook (Eve, 2017): brightness changes don't reach the panel
Reported by Sha01in · filed Oct 2, 2026 · open at source
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- 1 · What is claimed?
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- 2 · What does it affect?
- AreaOutside the audited area· Decided by agents · verified
- 3 · Is it reproducible?
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- 4 · What remains unclear?
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- 5 · What happens next?
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Original report
System details
Google Pixelbook (Eve, 2017), Core i5-7Y57 / HD 615, Omarchy 4.0.4, linux-omarchy 7.2.5-3, original Google firmware booting through RW_LEGACY (UEFI)
What's wrong?
Got Omarchy running on my original 2017 Pixelbook and it's great, except brightness. Changing it updates /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight, but the panel stays exactly as bright as it was.
To see it on an Eve:
omarchy brightness display 30%cat /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightnessshows the new value. The panel doesn't change.
Booting with i915.enable_dpcd_backlight=1 fixes it: i915 drives the panel's eDP DPCD (AUX) backlight instead, and brightness changes reach the panel.
Before and after on my Eve, stepping brightness to 20% and back to 100%:
intel_backlight (20% → 100%) | Panel | |
|---|---|---|
| Stock | 300 → 1500 (max 1500) | doesn't change |
| With the fix | 6553 → 32767 (max 32767) | dims and brightens |
Would you take a PR? It's ready on a branch:
omarchy-hw-google-pixelbook-eve: exact DMI match (vendorGoogle, productEve)install/hardware/google/fix-pixelbook-eve-backlight.sh: a limine cmdline drop-in, same asfix-asus-ptl-display-backlight.sh- a migration for existing Eves, modeled on 1786482992: writes the drop-in, rebuilds the boot image, asks for a reboot. It skips a machine already booted with any
i915.enable_dpcd_backlight=value, a marker stops a second user from rebuilding again, and a failed rebuild stays pending. test/shell.d/pixelbook-eve-backlight-test.sh, with stubbed DMI and sudo
Branch: https://github.com/Sha01in/omarchy-upstream/tree/add-google-pixelbook-eve-backlight
I tested the migration for real on my Eve: removed my own drop-in, rebuilt and rebooted (brightness broken), then ran the branch's migration under bash -euo pipefail like omarchy-migrate. It wrote the drop-in, rebuilt the UKI, set reboot-required and the marker, and after the reboot the "with the fix" row above is the result. With my old drop-in in place it no-ops. Not tested: a fresh install.
On a stock install the Eve's brightness keys send F5/F6, not brightness keys. That's a separate Chromebook keyboard question.
Audio, status only: the AVS driver's renamed cards (AVS I2S <codec>) don't match the Google-Eve-1.0 profiles in alsa-ucm-conf 1.2.16.1, so no UCM profile loads. alsa-project/alsa-ucm-conf#571, open since June 2025, adds profiles for the new names. On a scratch copy here they load, with one jack-name miss, which I've reported there. Meanwhile snd_soc_avs obsolete_card_names=1 brings back the old card names, and with the stock profiles the speakers, built-in mic and headphones (stereo, auto-switch on plug-in) all work here. The stock profile has the same headset-mic jack name bug, which I've sent upstream as alsa-project/alsa-ucm-conf#866. I'll open a separate issue for that one-liner.
If anyone else has an Eve, confirming the brightness fix would help.
AI disclosure: I worked this out with Claude Code (Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5) and reviewed everything it changed.
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### System details Google Pixelbook (Eve, 2017), Core i5-7Y57 / HD 615, Omarchy 4.0.4, linux-omarchy 7.2.5-3, original Google firmware booting through RW_LEGACY (UEFI) ### What's wrong? Got Omarchy running on my original 2017 Pixelbook and it's great, except brightness. Changing it updates `/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight`, but the panel stays exactly as bright as it was. To see it on an Eve: 1. `omarchy brightness display 30%` 2. `cat /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness` shows the new value. The panel doesn't change. Booting with `i915.enable_dpcd_backlight=1` fixes it: i915 drives the panel's eDP DPCD (AUX) backlight instead, and brightness changes reach the panel. Before and after on my Eve, stepping brightness to 20% and back to 100%: | | `intel_backlight` (20% → 100%) | Panel | |---|---|---| | Stock | 300 → 1500 (max 1500) | doesn't change | | With the fix | 6553 → 32767 (max 32767) | dims and brightens | Would you take a PR? It's ready on a branch: - `omarchy-hw-google-pixelbook-eve`: exact DMI match (vendor `Google`, product `Eve`) - `install/hardware/google/fix-pixelbook-eve-backlight.sh`: a limine cmdline drop-in, same as `fix-asus-ptl-display-backlight.sh` - a migration for existing Eves, modeled on 1786482992: writes the drop-in, rebuilds the boot image, asks for a reboot. It skips a machine already booted with any `i915.enable_dpcd_backlight=` value, a marker stops a second user from rebuilding again, and a failed rebuild stays pending. - `test/shell.d/pixelbook-eve-backlight-test.sh`, with stubbed DMI and sudo Branch: https://github.com/Sha01in/omarchy-upstream/tree/add-google-pixelbook-eve-backlight I tested the migration for real on my Eve: removed my own drop-in, rebuilt and rebooted (brightness broken), then ran the branch's migration under `bash -euo pipefail` like `omarchy-migrate`. It wrote the drop-in, rebuilt the UKI, set `reboot-required` and the marker, and after the reboot the "with the fix" row above is the result. With my old drop-in in place it no-ops. Not tested: a fresh install. On a stock install the Eve's brightness keys send F5/F6, not brightness keys. That's a separate Chromebook keyboard question. Audio, status only: the AVS driver's renamed cards (`AVS I2S <codec>`) don't match the `Google-Eve-1.0` profiles in alsa-ucm-conf 1.2.16.1, so no UCM profile loads. alsa-project/alsa-ucm-conf#571, open since June 2025, adds profiles for the new names. On a scratch copy here they load, with one jack-name miss, which I've reported there. Meanwhile `snd_soc_avs obsolete_card_names=1` brings back the old card names, and with the stock profiles the speakers, built-in mic and headphones (stereo, auto-switch on plug-in) all work here. The stock profile has the same headset-mic jack name bug, which I've sent upstream as alsa-project/alsa-ucm-conf#866. I'll open a separate issue for that one-liner. If anyone else has an Eve, confirming the brightness fix would help. AI disclosure: I worked this out with Claude Code (Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5) and reviewed everything it changed.
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- Out of scopeDecided by agents · verified · 2026-10-09 20:51 UTC