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I have an Asus laptop, and the keyboard backlight comes on full at startup. I formerly used the instructions here to issue a sudo command to turn it off. Basically, the steps were:

  1. gksudo gedit /etc/rc.local
  2. put echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/asus::kbd_backlight/brightness before exit 0
  3. Save and sudo chmod +x /etc/rc.local

On upgrade to 15.04, this stopped working. And I can't seem to fix it. Any ideas???

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  • This covers the same ground as http://askubuntu.com/questions/623566/ . – JdeBP May 17 '15 at 12:14
  • @MBWD refer here [http://askubuntu.com/questions/366578/start-asus-laptop](http://askubuntu.com/questions/366578/start-asus-laptop-ux32vd-with-keyboard-backlight-off) – Ravan Aug 24 '15 at 06:07

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This is because of the new systemd. try:

systemctl enable rc-local.service

To check status:

systemctl status rc-local.service

make sure that /etc/rc.local is executable and has #!/bin/sh in the first line.

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  • Oh. That makes sense. FYI to future readers. When I entered `systemctl enable rc-local.service.` I got: `The unit files have no [Install] section. They are not meant to be enabled using systemctl. Possible reasons for having this kind of units are: 1) A unit may be statically enabled by being symlinked from another unit's .wants/ or .requires/ directory. 2) A unit's purpose may be to act as a helper for some other unit which has a requirement dependency on it. 3) A unit may be started when needed.` But when I checked the status, it did say active. Restarting now to see if if worked. – Rsync May 17 '15 at 16:13
  • It did not work. Here is the text of `rc.local` file: `!/bin/sh -e sleep 15s echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/asus::kbd_backlight/brightness exit 0` It is executable. – Rsync May 17 '15 at 16:47
  • Unfortunately, it still is not working -- even though `rc-local.service` has a status of `active (exited)`. Here is what I now have in the rc.local file: `#!/bin/sh -e` `(sleep 10 && echo 562 > /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness)` `(sleep 5 && echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/asus::kbd_backlight/brightness)` `exit 0` – Rsync May 23 '15 at 19:55
  • This worked under 16.04. First `systemctl enable rc-local.service`. Then paste this into `/etc/rc.local` --- `#!/bin/sh -e (sleep 20 && echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/asus-nb-wmi/leds/asus::kbd_backlight/brightness) exit 0`. Then make `/etc/rc.local` executable with `sudo chmod a+x /etc/rc.local`. Finally, to check enter `systemctl status rc-local.service`. If all is working it should show green and active. – Rsync May 30 '16 at 02:01