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Re: how to turn off backlight in console (without any X server)



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On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 11:49:40AM +0100, Laurent Debian wrote:
> Hi and thanks for your ideas
> 
> Unfortunately there is no directory  /sys/class/backlight on my system.
> After a
> 
> > locate backlight
> >
> I juste had the following files as seemingly relevant.
> 
> > /var/lib/systemd/backlight/pci-0000:02:00.0:backlight:nv_backlight
> > /var/lib/systemd/backlight/platform-applesmc.768:leds:smc::kbd_backlight
> >
> Which were both at 100 but an echo 0 > ....  had no effect on the backlight
> (tough it tuned to 0 the value of in the  files )
> Any ideas where I should start to look at ?

Hm Sorry. Are you able to change backlight under X? Perhaps there are clues
to be extracted from that?

regards
- -- t
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