It does build on systems having /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/max_brightness, which is the intended use case. This issue has been addressed in 2018 already. mowar, you should really take the time to at least do minimal research before filing deletion requests. Literally the only two comments are about this. On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 12:25 AM <notify@aur.archlinux.org> wrote:

mowar46198 [1] filed a deletion request for backlight_control [2]:

Doesn't build

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/mowar46198/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/backlight_control/