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Goftrey

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May 20, 2011
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I've just updated my fully working 13" MBP (Mid-2009) from PB3 to PB4, and it's completely knackered the backlit keyboard. It's not showing up in System Prefs under Keyboard at all. Display brightness and the actual F5/F6 function keys still work though.

SMU and PRAM reset hasn't fixed it.

Anybody else with this issue?
 

ABC5S

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Does not show in my system Pref either, but I use the keyboard brightness keys to adjust it, and that still works
 

got556

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Jul 7, 2013
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Not working in mine either w/ both PB4 and PB5. Mid 2009 MBP here also. Worked fine in Mavericks.
[RESOLVED]

Had to uncheck adjust keyboard brightness in low light and now it works fine.
 
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NathanA

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[RESOLVED] Had to uncheck adjust keyboard brightness in low light and now it works fine.
The way I read them, I think the other two people in this thread were saying that the checkbox you mentioned doesn't even show up in their Keyboard System Preferences panel. It's as if OS X does not recognize that their Mac has a backlit keyboard.

Works fine here on both PB4 and PB5, but I have 2012 rMBP.

-- Nathan
 
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