Basic backlight control with intel_backlight
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A basic tool to increase and decrease intel backlight percent.

Build

You'll need make and some C compiler installed.

make

That's it.

Usage

Copy the backlight-control file to /usr/local/bin/ or somewhere similar. Then run backlight-control to get the current brightness as a percentage, or backlight-control +1 to increase brightness by 1 percent, or backlight-control -1 to decrease brightness by 1 percent. Or higher numbers for higher percentages at a time.