acpicbkbd(4)

acpicbkbd4

Chromebook keyboard backlight

Usage

acpicbkbd* at acpi?

Overview

The acpicbkbd driver enables adjustment of the keyboard backlight level on Chromebook laptops with supported hardware. Backlight levels can be retrieved and modified with the wsconsctl(8) variable keyboard.backlight.

Releases

Unchanged in 21 releases since OpenBSD 6.1.

  1. 6.1–8.0

History

The acpicbkbd driver first appeared in OpenBSD 6.0.

Authors

The acpicbkbd driver was written by joshua stein ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.