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#1 2019-03-25 01:54:28

myk.robinson
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Registered: 2015-12-26
Posts: 32

Keyboard Backlight Assistance

Hello -

I have a Samsung Spin 7 notebook, running Arch with Gnome.

I am trying to get the keyboard backlight working by following this guide in the wiki

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Keyboard_backlight

When I tried to test by running the command, i get an error that i need help troubleshooting:

[mykrobinson@SAMSUNG-ARCH bin]$ kb-light.py + 2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/kb-light.py", line 26, in <module>
    print(kb_light_set(int(sys.argv[2])))
  File "/usr/local/bin/kb-light.py", line 11, in kb_light_set
    current = kbd_backlight.GetBrightness()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 70, in __call__
    return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 145, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface “org.freedesktop.UPower.KbdBacklight” on object at path /org/freedesktop/UPower/KbdBacklight

The no such interface part is a good clue, but i am not sure where to start with this, since the wiki article states that this is hardware agnostic and seems to suggest it should "just work"

Thanks for any assistance you might be able to provide

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