I also can confirm that the keyboard backlight turns absolutely off in Ubuntu 12.04 if very bright light hits the ambient light sensor directly.
Tomasz Chmielewski (mangoo-wpkg) found out that the keyboard brightness can customized manually by change the value (1 - 8) in /sys/devices/platform/samsung/leds/samsung\:\:kbd_backlight/brightness source: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/902332 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/901409 Title: Ambient Light Sensor doesn't work on Samsung 700z3a To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/901409/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
