Package: xbacklight Version: 1.2.1-1 Followup-For: Bug #833508 Dear Maintainer,
same problem here. I can manually write to /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness fine. I use xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20160706-1. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-rc7-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages xbacklight depends on: ii libc6 2.23-4 ii libxcb-randr0 1.11.1-1 ii libxcb-util0 0.3.8-3 ii libxcb1 1.11.1-1 xbacklight recommends no packages. xbacklight suggests no packages. -- no debconf information

