Keyboard light does not shut off when lid to Laptop is closed

[FormBurden]

Hi there,

been using this awesome distro for a bit now, and got to say I'm impressed.

An issue I've run into is when I close the lid the keyboard lights that are on do not shut off, so the battery drains faster. Is there a setting somewhere where I can disable this? I tried looking into both Keyboard settings for something but to no avail, couldn't find anything. Even in the lid options for when on power or off power. Nothing.

All my device stats are below, but a simple run-down. My device is a MacBook Pro 2014 edition, full install, no duel-boots. Everything works fine for the most part, so this distro does work well on MacBooks.

Anything I can do? Or maybe this could be a bug.

Thanks!

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System:    Host: <filter> Kernel: 5.10.0-10-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.10.0-10-amd64 
           root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet gfxsave video=1600x900 splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 
           Distro: MX-21_x64 Wildflower October 20  2021 base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Apple product: MacBookPro11,1 v: 1.0 serial: <filter> Chassis: 
           type: 10 v: Mac-189A3D4F975D5FFC serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Apple model: Mac-189A3D4F975D5FFC v: MacBookPro11,1 serial: <filter> 
           UEFI: Apple v: 429.0.0.0.0 date: 12/02/2020 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 42.4 Wh condition: 64.1/71.5 Wh (90%) volts: 11.5/11.3 
           model: SMP bq20z451 type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Discharging cycles: 238 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-4278U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Haswell 
           family: 6 model-id: 45 (69) stepping: 1 microcode: 26 L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 20798 
           Speed: 900 MHz min/max: 800/3100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 971 2: 944 3: 934 4: 971 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
           Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: spec_store_bypass 
           mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, 
           STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
           Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics vendor: Apple driver: i915 v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0a2e 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: intel resolution: 1680x1050~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Iris Graphics 5100 (HSW GT3) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.5 
           compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio vendor: Apple driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:03.0 chip ID: 8086:0a0c 
           Device-2: Intel 8 Series HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
           chip ID: 8086:9c20 
           Device-3: Broadcom and subsidiaries 720p FaceTime HD Camera driver: N/A 
           bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 14e4:1570 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-10-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Broadcom and subsidiaries BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter 
           vendor: Apple driver: wl v: kernel port: efa0 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 14e4:43a0 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 113.00 GiB used: 7.51 GiB (6.6%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Apple model: SSD SD0128F size: 113.00 GiB block size: 
           physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 1.5 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 321 scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 106.60 GiB size: 104.37 GiB (97.91%) used: 7.33 GiB (7.0%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/dm-0 
           ID-2: /boot raw size: 512.0 MiB size: 487.2 MiB (95.16%) used: 185.8 MiB (38.1%) 
           fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 5.61 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap swappiness: 15 (default 60) 
           cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/dm-1 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 60.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
Info:      Processes: 242 Uptime: 5h 48m Memory: 7.68 GiB used: 2.73 GiB (35.5%) Init: SysVinit 
           v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Shell: quick-system-in 
           running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36 

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[jodumont]

Hey; I don't have a straight answer for you but, I have the same kind of device MacBookPro 8,1 where it took me a while to figure the LID behavior and where I resolved it by playing in the /etc/systemd/logind.conf configuration: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/sy ... .conf.html
Otherwise; by looking for "MacBook Pro keyboard backlight" I found this https://askubuntu.com/questions/26248/h ... on-macbook
I hope that help you

[FormBurden]

Hey; I don't have a straight answer for you but, I have the same kind of device MacBookPro 8,1 where it took me a while to figure the LID behavior and where I resolved it by playing in the /etc/systemd/logind.conf configuration: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/sy ... .conf.html
Otherwise; by looking for "MacBook Pro keyboard backlight" I found this https://askubuntu.com/questions/26248/h ... on-macbook
I hope that help you

No worries, I appreciate the links though. Will see what I can do.

[Huckleberry Finn]

Welcome to the forum ,

You can try the 5.14 kernel from "MX Package Installer" - Popular Apps tab.

(Just to make it clear: in Power Manager closing the lid is set to 'suspend' ? )
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What happens if you just suspend (then close the lid) ?

Or suspend with:

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sudo pm-suspend

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Just btw. : gfxsave is for live session only and the correct sysntax is gfxsave=xxx

"Set the current bootloader settings as the defaults. Valid values: custom, menus, both, reset" .


(You can remove that with "MX Boot Options")
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Meanwhile, maybe there's an Fn + F key to switch On/Off etc..
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Also try after installing this:

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sudo apt update ; sudo apt install laptop-mode-tools -y

Reboot.