Ubuntu
gnome-settings-daemon package

  1. Bug #1203592
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 1203592

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Sérgio Faria (sergio91pt) wrote :

To complement what aisthesis said, now, in Ubuntu 14.04, the kb backlight works.
It gets "triggered" only via the luminosity sensor, not the fn keys.

I don't recommend removing that blacklist, as its known to brick the laptop in UEFI mode (atleast in old BIOS versions).