I did not install X on this machine since the screen is half broken.  (i
just use it as a server and acces it via ssh but screen consume power for
nothing so i want somehow to turn it off).
I can install x and then try again xbacklight. This will be my next try...
Thanks again,
Laurent.

2016-11-08 14:02 GMT+01:00 <to...@tuxteam.de>:

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> On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 11:49:40AM +0100, Laurent Debian wrote:
> > Hi and thanks for your ideas
> >
> > Unfortunately there is no directory  /sys/class/backlight on my system.
> > After a
> >
> > > locate backlight
> > >
> > I juste had the following files as seemingly relevant.
> >
> > > /var/lib/systemd/backlight/pci-0000:02:00.0:backlight:nv_backlight
> > > /var/lib/systemd/backlight/platform-applesmc.768:leds:
> smc::kbd_backlight
> > >
> > Which were both at 100 but an echo 0 > ....  had no effect on the
> backlight
> > (tough it tuned to 0 the value of in the  files )
> > Any ideas where I should start to look at ?
>
> Hm Sorry. Are you able to change backlight under X? Perhaps there are clues
> to be extracted from that?
>
> regards
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