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I have dual-booted my Macbook Pro with Ubuntu 12.04 . Whenever i log-in to Ubuntu, it does so with full screen brightness and keyboard backlight at full . How do i get rid of this? How can i tweak the start-up setting for screen brightness and disable keyboard backlight at start-up?

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see also askubuntu.com/questions/137355/… – naught101 Oct 12 '12 at 11:26

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To fix the screen brightness on my Macbook I stopped the apple_bl kernel module from being loaded. This seem to fix this for me.

  1. Create a file called: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-applebl.conf

  2. In the above file add the line:

     blacklist apple_bl

  3. Reboot.

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I tried this, but it still reboots with maximum brightness. – hektor May 26 '12 at 15:34
OK i read the question wrong. My install also always starts at full brightnesss. But I usually use suspend. Can you control the brightness using the keys? – Tim May 29 '12 at 2:43
Yep i can use the keys to control the brightness. – hektor May 29 '12 at 13:02
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Has been a long time that you asked this question. I had a similar problem and solved it this way:

http://blog.christian-hufgard.de/keyboardscreen_backlight_settings_ubuntu_12_04-2012-07-30

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Keyboard backlight is only partially implemented, I think. It's working for unity, but in KDE there's no UI for it. You can manually change the keyboard backlight brightness on the command line. I don't have a mac, so I'm not sure what the exact command is, but for my samsung, the command is 

echo 5 > /sys/class/leds/samsung\:\:kbd_backlight/brightness

(you have to do this as root, you can use sudo -s)

For the mac, have a look in /sys/class/leds, and see what's there.

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