Not sure if this is helpful, but (assuming you are talking about the screen brightness not the keyboard backlit feature) http://askubuntu.com/questions/262003/brightness-not-working-on-lenovo worked for me on a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon with Ubuntu 13.04.
Not sure if this is helpful, but (assuming you are talking about the screen brightness not the keyboard backlit feature) http:// askubuntu. com/questions/ 262003/ brightness- not-working- on-lenovo worked for me on a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon with Ubuntu 13.04.