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[Νίκος Αλεξανδρής <nikos.alexandris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not a fix but, for the time being, should be useful: set  "on_threshold
= 0". The ambient light sensor does not work anyway (the way it should,
or does it? -- mbp5,1 here).


--- /etc/pommed.conf ---

        # ambient light thresholds for automatic backlight (0 - 255)
        on_threshold = 0

--- /etc/pommed.conf ---

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Keyboard backlight never remains off with nvidia-bl-dkms 0.15 series on MacBook 5.1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/519462
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Status in Mactel Support: New

Bug description:
In Ubuntu  9.10 Karmic Koala, using nvidia-bl-dkms 0.15 series from the Mactel PPA, the keyboard backlight on my MacBook 5.1 will never remain completely off, by attempting to dim it all the way using the F5 keyboard dim key. It will decrease until the keyboard light turns off, and then it will turn back on within two seconds. It returns to brightness setting of 100, as confirmed by
cat /sys/class/leds/smc\:\:kbd_backlight/brightness

This bug is reproducible without using the backlight keys, with 
echo 0 | sudo tee -a /sys/class/leds/smc\:\:kbd_backlight/brightness