Erratic keyboard brightness using a Powerbook G4 and MacOS 10.5.8

[Baldung99]

This problem is driving me insane. The keyboard backlight will suddenly shut completely off and refuses to turn back on until I physically cover up the ambient light sensors. I don't really mind the screen dimming on its own. But the keyboard? Sometimes I can't see my keys when I type in my room, because, one, my eyesight is getting worse and two the main light is up and behind me and my desklamp is an old incandescent one and I absolutely do NOT any more heat at this point. So I'm forced to wrestle with the brightness.

I have already found a way to disable the screen auto-dim function but not the keyboard equivalent. I just want to manually control when the backlight turns on, is that so much to ask.

For what it's worth, I think I've used AuroraTrim and I've also used TimeMachine to backup the current installation of Leopard I'm using from an older drive if that's relevant.

 

[B S Magnet]

This problem is driving me insane. The keyboard backlight will suddenly shut completely off and refuses to turn back on until I physically cover up the ambient light sensors. I don't really mind the screen dimming on its own. But the keyboard? Sometimes I can't see my keys when I type in my room, because, one, my eyesight is getting worse and two the main light is up and behind me and my desklamp is an old incandescent one and I absolutely do NOT any more heat at this point. So I'm forced to wrestle with the brightness.

I have already found a way to disable the screen auto-dim function but not the keyboard equivalent. I just want to manually control when the backlight turns on, is that so much to ask.

For what it's worth, I think I've used AuroraTrim and I've also used TimeMachine to backup the current installation of Leopard I'm using from an older drive if that's relevant.

You’re gonna want to grab Lab Tick 0.9.4 to be able to override that.

You’ll also want to de-select the adjust keyboard backlight adjustment box under the keyboard system prefs, as the built-in ambient lighting adjumentments will try to override Lab Tick’s control and vice-versa, causing outright back light flicker.