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["Peter S." <stoto@xxxxxxxxx>]

However i am able to control the brightness width the following command:

sudo echo 180 | sudo tee
/sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/leds/smc::kbd_backlight/brightness

Where 180 is the brightness, it goes from 0 to 255.

Any way to bind it to the keyboard backlight keys?

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[Jaunty] MacBook 5.1 keyboard backlight not supported
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/337945
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Status in Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL): New
Status in Mactel Support: In Progress
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
The keyboard backlight on the MacBook 5.1 is not supported as of Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.04) Alpha 5. This is supported in Intrepid (Ubuntu 8.10) by the Mactel PPA packages hal-applesmc, hid-dkms, and possibly nvidia-bl-dkms, though I installed the nvidia-bl-dkms package for Jaunty.