XUbuntu 16.04 Screen Brightness Controls Not Working
Open the grub file using following command in terminal
add
Save the file /etc/default/grub by pressing "Ctrl o"
Exit the file /etc/default/grub by pressing "Ctrl x"
Update the grub using following command
Open the grub file using following command in terminal
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
add
acpi_osi=Linux at the end of the following line as below
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
TO
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux"
Save the file /etc/default/grub by pressing "Ctrl o"
Exit the file /etc/default/grub by pressing "Ctrl x"
Update the grub using following command
sudo update-grub
Run the following command to check the graphics card
ls /sys/class/backlight/
it will list something like following
acpi_video0 acpi_video1 intel_backlight nv_backlight
if intel_backlight listed, then it is intel graphic card. while nv_backlight is for nvidia
Now create following file by running the mentioned command
sudo nano /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
Add following lines as it is
Section "Device"
Identifier "card0"
Driver "intel"
Option "Backlight" "intel_backlight"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection
Save the file by pressing "Ctrl O"
Exit the file by pressing "Ctrl X"
Now reboot the machine by running following command
reboot
It worked for me...hopefully it will do the task for you as well.