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I have Asus ROG GL-752 notebook and I just installed Ubuntu 16.04.1. I suffered until I almost died from many driver issues, especially with Nvidia, but with some struggle I managed to make things to work properly.

After spending all the day trying to find fixes, I still struggle from one driver. Previously under Windows 10, the OS installed by the manufacturer originally, the backlight turns off automatically after some seconds or maybe minutes of inactivity. Once a button is hit, the backlight turns on again. Under Ubuntu, the backlight doesn't turn off, except if I turn it off by hotkeys fn + f3.

I have a similar issue as this user: Keyboard backlight keeps going on in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

My wishful thinking had me wandering in this path: 

/sys/devices/platform/asus-nb-wmi/leds/asus::kbd_backlight/power

where I found a file named autosuspend_delay_ms, my gut tells me this is the thing that needs to be fixed, I don't really know. The file is empty when opened via nano as a root user.

*How to automatically turn off the backlight of the keyboard after x time of inactivity?

direprobs
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The keyboard backlighting problem was finally fixed for me in 17.04 on my Toshiba Satellite. You might try updating to 17.04, or at least booting to the Ubuntu Live DVD 17.04 and see if it works for you.

heynnema
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