Still not working on my Sony Vaio S (11.10 Beta 2). Always worked with 11.04 and stopped working somewhere between Beta 1 and Beta 2.
There are no keys on the Sony to switch this on and off (to my knowledge). The keyboard backlighting is activated on keypress and if the ambient low detected is low (I believe). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/849110 Title: Regression: keyboard backlight hotkeys no longer work Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: They keyboard backlight control hotkeys on my Macbook Pro (3,1) no longer function properly in 11.10. This is a regression from 11.04, and I believe a regression from 11.10 beta 1. There are 3 keys on the keyboard: Keyboard backlight toggle Keyboard backlight down Keyboard backlight up In 11.04, the keyboard backlight up/down keys adjusted the keyboard backlight as expected, and the corresponding OSD notifications worked as well. The 'keyboard backlight off' never functioned properly. At some point after 11.10 beta 1, the keyboard backlight hotkeys stopped functioning properly. The keyboard backlight is no longer controllable using the hotkeys. Pressing any of the 3 hotkeys results in the 'full backlight' OSD being displayed, with no change to the actual keyboard backlight. I can still control the keyboard backlight manually from a command line. For example, to turn the keyboard backlight on to 100% then off: echo 255 | sudo tee -a /sys/class/leds/smc\:\:kbd_backlight/brightness echo 0 | sudo tee -a /sys/class/leds/smc\:\:kbd_backlight/brightness ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: gnome-power-manager 3.1.90-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.17-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.22.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Sep 13 11:34:14 2011 GnomeSessionIdleInhibited: No GnomeSessionInhibitors: None GnomeSessionSuspendInhibited: No InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta amd64 (20100901.1) MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBookPro3,1 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-11-generic root=UUID=4b3d81ed-fb5d-4946-97c0-ec537e1bfa3f ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-02 (11 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 03/05/08 dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc. dmi.bios.version: MBP31.88Z.0070.B07.0803051658 dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag dmi.board.name: Mac-F4238BC8 dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc. dmi.board.version: PVT dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset Tag# dmi.chassis.type: 2 dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc. dmi.chassis.version: Mac-F4238BC8 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMBP31.88Z.0070.B07.0803051658:bd03/05/08:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookPro3,1:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-F4238BC8:rvrPVT:cvnAppleInc.:ct2:cvrMac-F4238BC8: dmi.product.name: MacBookPro3,1 dmi.product.version: 1.0 dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc. gnome-power-bugreport: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/849110/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
