MacbookPro8,1 13 2011 keyboard backlit

[Member vita_cell]

Hi, I can’t enable or control keyboard’s backlit light, while it works out of the box with any other GNU/Linux distribution. I tryed to boot with legacy kernel, live usb. Lunix version I am using is 5.10.142-antix.
I have installed Antix 22 64bits runit.

[Moderator caprea]

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The keyboard backlight folder sits in /sys/class/leds
On my thinkpad it is called tpacpi::kbd_backlight, yours is called differently, just look for kbd
There’s a max_brightness file in the folder with a number. Here on mine it is 2.
With the command
echo 2 | sudo tee /sys/class/leds/tpacpi::kbd_backlight/brightness
the backlight can be turned on
With
echo 0 | sudo tee /sys/class/leds/tpacpi::kbd_backlight/brightness

I can turn it off.

You need to change the commands for your situation.If this works you can use a key combination for the commands.

[Member vita_cell]

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It works, but why in this GNU/Linux distribution the only one that shortcuts for keyboard brightness on keyboard don’t work? Maybe because here is no power manager or it’s just very basic?

EDIT: Ok, just installed xfce power manager, and that fixed the whole problem. Maybe not good idea to install that on Antix, but I see no better solution.

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