[SOLVED]Two Questions About Acer Swift X Computer

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Wow. That sounds like a nice rig. Did you look at systemctl --failed and also look through sudo dmesg and see if there is any errors relating to the backlighting. On my HP i used this kernel parameter and i also disabled a service that shows up in dmesg related to amdgpu_b10

You could try the following kernel parameter also and see if it works. There are a number of these parameters for this and depends on manufacturer.

acpi_backlight=video

Edit: Don’t forget to run sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg after adding the kernel parameter in the default grub command line.

Also here is the enable magic sysrq key

[Tip] Enable Magic SysRq Key (REISUB)

The Linux kernel authors have provided a very nice feature of issuing low-level commands to the kernel directly, regardless of the state the system is in. This is called the “Magic SysRq Key”, because these commands are issued by pressing the SysRq key on the keyboard (if you can’t find it, typically, it shares the same physical key as the Print Screen key, but on some laptops it can be elsewhere). A common use is to reboot when the computer freezes and becomes unresponsive due to some software…