[SOLVED] Asus g75vw keyboard light

Death On Wings · 02-03-2015, 03:32 PM

Hello
I have an Asus G75vw and everything works fine except the keyboard shortcuts and the baklit keyboard.

How am i supose to get this to work? The shortcuts ( FN keys) is not susch a big pain in the ass but the light on the keyboard sure is nice to have when you sit in a dark room and searching for pr0n

Any sugestions how to get this working?

Using slackware 14.1 atm

Death On Wings · 02-03-2015, 04:03 PM

Could this be of any help?

Code:

bash-4.2# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
i2c_dev                 5843  0 
ipv6                  292446  72 
asus_nb_wmi             6592  0 
uvcvideo               71742  0 
videobuf2_vmalloc       2912  1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_memops        1879  1 videobuf2_vmalloc
videobuf2_core         27437  1 uvcvideo
videodev              102061  2 uvcvideo,videobuf2_core
cpufreq_ondemand        8799  0 
lp                      9851  0 
ppdev                   5862  0 
parport_pc             19332  0 
parport                30389  3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
ath3k                   6877  0 
btusb                  16152  0 
bluetooth             220548  3 ath3k,btusb
joydev                  9751  0 
fuse                   73848  1 
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     29622  4 
snd_hda_codec_via      19806  1 
nvidia               8317050  45 
intel_powerclamp        8391  0 
coretemp                5870  0 
kvm_intel             126236  0 
kvm                   363491  1 kvm_intel
asus_wmi               16202  1 asus_nb_wmi
crc32_pclmul            2883  0 
crc32c_intel           14113  0 
sparse_keymap           3074  1 asus_wmi
ath9k                  87291  0 
ath9k_common            1951  1 ath9k
ath9k_hw              369458  2 ath9k_common,ath9k
snd_hda_intel          34861  1 
snd_hda_codec         143196  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_via,snd_hda_intel
ghash_clmulni_intel     4333  0 
ath                    15545  3 ath9k_common,ath9k,ath9k_hw
snd_hwdep               6388  1 snd_hda_codec
mac80211              429423  1 ath9k
psmouse                81058  0 
serio_raw               4585  0 
drm                   229054  2 nvidia
mperf                   1163  0 
snd_pcm                76009  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
evdev                   9648  8 
cfg80211              380228  3 ath,ath9k,mac80211
snd_page_alloc          7098  2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
agpgart                27267  1 drm
snd_timer              18614  1 snd_pcm
snd                    58630  9 snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_via,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
atl1c                  34906  0 
microcode              13140  0 
rfkill                 15522  4 cfg80211,bluetooth,asus_wmi
soundcore               5354  1 snd
mei_me                  7728  0 
i2c_i801               13860  0 
ehci_pci                3688  0 
xhci_hcd               88528  0 
mei                    42963  1 mei_me
ehci_hcd               39275  1 ehci_pci
i2c_core               20936  5 drm,i2c_i801,i2c_dev,nvidia,videodev
lpc_ich                12841  0 
thermal                 8644  0 
wmi                     8243  1 asus_wmi
video                  11451  1 asus_wmi
processor              27543  0 
thermal_sys            22993  4 video,intel_powerclamp,thermal,processor
freq_table              2628  2 cpufreq_ondemand,thermal_sys
battery                11579  0 
hwmon                   1337  3 coretemp,thermal_sys,asus_wmi
button                  4696  0 
ac                      4311  0 
loop                   18479  0

Code:

bash-4.2# dmesg | grep asus
[    3.893441] asus_wmi: ASUS WMI generic driver loaded
[    3.894472] asus_wmi: Initialization: 0x1asus_wmi: BIOS WMI version: 7.9
[    3.894915] asus_wmi: SFUN value: 0x6a0877<6>[    3.895031] ehci-pci 0000:00:1a.0: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[    3.902315] input: Asus WMI hotkeys as /devices/platform/asus-nb-wmi/input/input6
[    4.004275] asus-nb-wmi: probe of asus-nb-wmi failed with error -5
[    8.013156] asus_wmi: Initialization: 0x1
[    8.013179] asus_wmi: BIOS WMI version: 7.9asus_wmi: SFUN value: 0x6a0877
[    8.013805] input: Asus WMI hotkeys as /devices/platform/asus-nb-wmi/input/input15
[    8.075721] asus_wmi: Backlight controlled by ACPI video driver

Update:

I found this guide
http://esausilva.com/2013/06/07/keyb...cow-asus-n56v/

And i got the light on the keyboard working with the command.

Code:

 echo 10 | tee asus\:\:kbd_backlight/brightness

But i still cant get it to work with the FN keys and it wont light up at boot as the guide said it wold. What am i doing wrong here?

WhiteWolf1776 · 02-03-2015, 05:44 PM

I used kde, custom shortcuts using the function keys marked for the keyboard lights

light on:

Code:

echo 2 > /sys/class/leds/asus\:\:kbd_backlight/brightness

light off:

Code:

echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/asus\:\:kbd_backlight/brightness

Death On Wings · 02-04-2015, 12:53 AM

Is there any way to do this in fluxbox?

WhiteWolf1776 · 02-04-2015, 08:04 AM

I'm sure there is... but not having to go through hell to get a button to work is one of the reasons i run kde.

you should be able to take those commands, possibly modifying permissions on what they touch, and put them into a script you can alias to run, making it simple as well.

My personal opinion... esp on a laptop... kde is well worth it's.. weight.

genss · 02-04-2015, 09:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Death On Wings

Is there any way to do this in fluxbox?

in ~/.fluxbox/keys
something like

Code:

None Shift Mod1 b :Exec echo 2 > /sys/class/leds/asus\:\:kbd_backlight/brightness

where "None" means global and "Shift Mod1 b" means shift+alt+b
(add some different button to turn it off, ofc)

don't know how fluxbox will deal with ">" so you may need to make a script and put it instead of the echo stuff
but it should work

Death On Wings · 02-04-2015, 10:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WhiteWolf1776

I'm sure there is... but not having to go through hell to get a button to work is one of the reasons i run kde.

you should be able to take those commands, possibly modifying permissions on what they touch, and put them into a script you can alias to run, making it simple as well.

My personal opinion... esp on a laptop... kde is well worth it's.. weight.

Have not used kde since i installed my first Linux dist (mandrake) and that must be 2001-2002. I gues i can give it a try and see if it runs better now

Can i run the script in startup if i just ignore the hotkeys?

WhiteWolf1776 · 02-04-2015, 10:57 AM

Don't see why not, just add it to system settings->startup and shutdown.. I do something similar to make this huge track pad stop taking input for a second after i stop typing.

Death On Wings · 02-04-2015, 11:46 AM

Just added your command to the rc.local so i had the lights on before i started up X.
Thank you so much for the help

Code:

echo 3 > /sys/class/leds/asus\:\:kbd_backlight/brightness

WhiteWolf1776 · 02-04-2015, 01:04 PM

Happy to help. If you don't mind, go up to the top and mark this as solved so it gets into the right group.

Happy Slackin'