Public bug reported:

Hi,

gsd-backlight-helper seems to make a wrong decision on which backlight
to modify/the correct node is missing. The hotkeys for changing the
screen brightness don't work on MacBook Air using nouveau.

gsd-backlight-helper sets
/sys/devices/virtual/backlight/apple_backlight/brightness which doesn't
change anything.

manually setting the brightness like this

# echo 15 > /sys/class/backlight/nv_backlight/brightness

works well

Package: gnome-settings-daemon           
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 3.4.2-0ubuntu0.1

leaf# strace ./gsd-backlight-helper --set-brightness 15 2>&1 | tail
open("/sys/devices/virtual/backlight/apple_backlight/type", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) 
= 4
read(4, "platform\n", 4096)             = 9
close(4)                                = 0
close(3)                                = 0
getuid()                                = 0
geteuid()                               = 0
open("/sys/devices/virtual/backlight/apple_backlight/brightness", O_WRONLY) = 3
write(3, "15", 2)                       = 2
close(3)                                = 0
exit_group(0)                           = ?

** Affects: ubuntu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  Unable to adjust backlight brightness

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