As 1) currently we can control brightness levels on illumos only on some Toshiba laptops 2) this code knows nothing about illumos, we disable blacklight helper to avoid warnings like: ** (mate-power-backlight-helper:82740): WARNING **: failed to find any devices: Error opening directory '/sys/class/backlight': No such file or directory --- mate-power-manager-1.18.1/src/gpm-backlight-helper.c.1 2018-01-11 12:08:34.614360138 +0000 +++ mate-power-manager-1.18.1/src/gpm-backlight-helper.c 2018-01-11 12:38:20.646912292 +0000 @@ -160,6 +160,10 @@ gchar *filename_file = NULL; gchar *contents = NULL; +#if defined(__sun) && defined(__SVR4) + return GCM_BACKLIGHT_HELPER_EXIT_CODE_FAILED; +#endif + const GOptionEntry options[] = { { "set-brightness", '\0', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_INT, &set_brightness, /* command line argument */