Unlike my older Dell, there was NO way to make the light stay on. They\’d come back on only I would either touch a key or \”hover\” my hand over the middle of the alphabet part of the keyboard.

NOTHING that I did, though, would keep the lights on any longer. Long-story-short, after I had the laptop for a few days, I had one BIG complaint and nothing I could do would fix it: the 5558\’s keyboard light kept turning off after 10 sec AND there are only a couple brightness levels and they\’re controlled with the F10 key and you go from Off, to bright, to low, to Off, etc. I bought it over a year ago and I was used to the backlit keyboard on my previous Dell, where you could turn it on, and change it to different levels of brightness. I have had my Inspiron 5558 signature edition.