** Description changed:

- In Ubuntu  9.10 Karmic Koala, using nvidia-bl-dkms 0.15 series from the
- Mactel PPA, the keyboard backlight on my MacBook 5.1 will never remain
- completely off, by attempting to dim it all the way using the F5
- keyboard dim key. It will decrease until the keyboard light turns off,
- and then it will turn back on within two seconds. It seems to return to
- about mid-brightness.
+ In Ubuntu  9.10 Karmic Koala, using nvidia-bl-dkms 0.15 series from the 
Mactel PPA, the keyboard backlight on my MacBook 5.1 will never remain 
completely off, by attempting to dim it all the way using the F5 keyboard dim 
key. It will decrease until the keyboard light turns off, and then it will turn 
back on within two seconds. It returns to full brightness, as confirmed by
+ cat /sys/class/leds/smc\:\:kbd_backlight/brightness

** Description changed:

- In Ubuntu  9.10 Karmic Koala, using nvidia-bl-dkms 0.15 series from the 
Mactel PPA, the keyboard backlight on my MacBook 5.1 will never remain 
completely off, by attempting to dim it all the way using the F5 keyboard dim 
key. It will decrease until the keyboard light turns off, and then it will turn 
back on within two seconds. It returns to full brightness, as confirmed by
+ In Ubuntu  9.10 Karmic Koala, using nvidia-bl-dkms 0.15 series from the 
Mactel PPA, the keyboard backlight on my MacBook 5.1 will never remain 
completely off, by attempting to dim it all the way using the F5 keyboard dim 
key. It will decrease until the keyboard light turns off, and then it will turn 
back on within two seconds. It returns to brightness setting of 100, as 
confirmed by
  cat /sys/class/leds/smc\:\:kbd_backlight/brightness
+ 
+ This bug is reproducible without using the backlight keys, with 
+ echo 0 | sudo tee -a /sys/class/leds/smc\:\:kbd_backlight/brightness

-- 
Keyboard backlight never remains off with nvidia-bl-dkms 0.15 series on MacBook 
5.1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/519462
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Status in Mactel Support: New

Bug description:
In Ubuntu  9.10 Karmic Koala, using nvidia-bl-dkms 0.15 series from the Mactel 
PPA, the keyboard backlight on my MacBook 5.1 will never remain completely off, 
by attempting to dim it all the way using the F5 keyboard dim key. It will 
decrease until the keyboard light turns off, and then it will turn back on 
within two seconds. It returns to brightness setting of 100, as confirmed by
cat /sys/class/leds/smc\:\:kbd_backlight/brightness

This bug is reproducible without using the backlight keys, with 
echo 0 | sudo tee -a /sys/class/leds/smc\:\:kbd_backlight/brightness



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