Macbook Pro Kali Keyboard Backlight Brightness

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2018-07-02
rets34

Macbook Pro Kali Keyboard Backlight Brightness

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

Code:

echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/smc::kbd_backlight/brightness

to change the backlight brightness.
2018-10-12
rets34

Three months later and I have Gnome 3.30.1, and Kali 4.18 and the same issue is still happening.
2018-10-12
atdtphreaker

Same issue here...
2018-10-18
alkimista

Quote:

Originally Posted by rets34

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

Code:

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
2018-11-07
rets34

Problem was fixed for me after upgrading to 2018.4.
2018-11-10
Mister_X

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