Macbook keyboard highlight does not work. Keys fn+F8, fn+F9, fn+F10 have no action.
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This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle. Changing version to '12'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
I am seeing the same problem. It seems that I can turn the keyboard light on by doing manually (as root): echo 200 > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/leds/smc::kbd_backlight/brightness So kernel knows how to do this but something above it does not.
For MacBook Pro, Keys are F5 and F6. Saw this solution posted on a forum and it seems to do the trick. From http://www.thelinuxdaily.com/2010/04/fedora-13-goddard-on-macbook-aluminum-51-guide/. Credit should go to LoveThePenguin81 1) As su, make the backlight accessible to all users chmod a+w /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/leds/smc\:\:kbd_backlight/brightness 2) As su, create a shell file in /usr/bin. Call it keylight. Inside the file write: #!/bin/bash current=$(cat /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/leds/smc\:\:kbd_backlight/brightness) new=$(($current$1)) if [ $new -ge 255 ]; then new=255 fi if [ $new -lt 0 ]; then new=0 fi echo $new > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/leds/smc\:\:kbd_backlight/brightness 3) As su, make the new file executable chmod a+x keylight 4) As a normal user, If everything is fine exit super user. You should be able to change the light issuing commands of the kind ‘keylight +25′ or dimming it with ‘keylight -50′ 5) Implement this in your gnome dektop (KDE must have something similar). Uing graphic interface system>preferences>keyboard shortcut click on add create a “keyboard backlight up” and set its command “keylight +25″ create a “keyboard backlight dw” and set its command “keylight -25″ 6) assign the shortcuts to f6 (XF86KbdBrightnessUp) and f5 (XF86KbdBrightnessDown)
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Still not working on F14
true.
Works in F15, but it randomly resets to a middle value, even though it was dimmed to none. Also happens when screen goes blank as part of power save, and then comes back.
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