ARCH LINUX MACBOOK AIR 203 UPDATE

I love Arch as a whole, but it's very frustrating to have these issues with the MBA in particular. I'm going to try booting into a black screen and then SSHing into the machine to see if any errors come up when starting, but as of right now it's a work in progress and I haven't been able to find much help about it. I get no errors for loading the backlight module during the boot if it doesn't bug out completely. In the case that the backlight is working, I no longer can adjust it the way I did before, so it's stuck on one brightness. Right now the way I deal with this is just restarting my computer over and over until the backlight is working.

ARCH LINUX MACBOOK AIR 203 UPDATE

After a recent kernel update (4.x something, I forget the exact one), my computer will often boot and the backlight will be completely off and I can't change it. However, recently my issues have been getting worse. Occasionally, the permissions for writing to those files would reset and I would just have to change them again to get them working. I just bound those scripts to my brightness keys and had everything working as intended.

I avoided the problem by never suspending my computer and changing the lid close behavior.ДЄdditionally, in order to change the brightness, I had to write my own scripts to write to the brightness file. There was a kernel module 'fix' that was designed for the previous MBAs that did not work for me.

If I suspended it, upon waking it back up, the backlight had only two settings 0% or 100%. When I first installed Arch on my MBA about a year ago, I couldn't suspend my computer (still can't).

Arch linux macbook air 203