Thread: Get rid of Kindle Paperwhite's backlight
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Old 11-28-2013, 06:55 PM   #149
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Originally Posted by knc1 View Post
It will be under /sys/devices and/or /sys/platform

Watch out for using find in /sys sub-tree - - lots of recursive links there.

Start just by eyeballing the directories and contents from the above starting places - it will be named something similar.
Got it. I changed the FL variable in all two scripts to

/sys/class/backlight/max77696-bl/brightness

then it seems to work.

I don't have the time right now to adjust the script so it will work on both Paperwhite versions but shouldn't be a big deal (e.g. check if the first file exist (then it's a Paperwhite 1) if not check for the brightness file (then it's a Paperwhite 2) - in all other cases it's not a Paperwhite at all)
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