Macbook Pro Kali Keyboard Backlight Brightness [Archive]

rets34

2018-07-02, 16:26

I've got Kali 4.16.0 installed on an Early 2013 13" Macbook Pro. When I'm booted into GNOME, I can change the screen brightness and it shows the UI pop-up shwoing the brightness level, however if I try to change the keyboard backlight level I also get the UI pop-up but the level does not change.

I can use
echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/smc::kbd_backlight/brightness
to change the backlight brightness.

rets34

2018-10-12, 13:01

Three months later and I have Gnome 3.30.1, and Kali 4.18 and the same issue is still happening.

atdtphreaker

2018-10-12, 20:30

Same issue here...

alkimista

2018-10-18, 23:20

I've got Kali 4.16.0 installed on an Early 2013 13" Macbook Pro. When I'm booted into GNOME, I can change the screen brightness and it shows the UI pop-up shwoing the brightness level, however if I try to change the keyboard backlight level I also get the UI pop-up but the level does not change.

I can use
echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/smc::kbd_backlight/brightness
to change the backlight brightness.
oh men thanks, With that command I wrote a script and assigned it to the keyboard

rets34

2018-11-07, 04:26

Problem was fixed for me after upgrading to 2018.4.

Mister_X

2018-11-10, 21:45

In general, it takes "a bit of time" (and sometimes quite a bit) for kernel and drivers to catch up for recent Macs.