Re: [gentoo-user] keyboard lighting control?

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 February 2011 23:05:50 Stroller wrote:
>> On 21/2/2011, at 8:20pm, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> >> ...
>> >> You didn't say which groovy new laptop's keyboard you are trying to make
>> >> light up, so I can only guess that SENSORS_APPLESMC may well do the
>> >> trick for you,
>> >
>> > Ah, if that makes a difference is a Asus G73JW. Assuming I enable that
>> > kernel option is there a user space app that will allow my 83 year old
>> > gaming mom to turn the lights off and on?
>>
>> SENSORS_APPLESMC
>> SENSORS_APPLE
>> APPLE
>> Mac
>>
>> No, I don't think so.
>
> It seems my message didn't make it to the list, but once the Asus declaration
> was made by the OP, I suggested differently of course:
>
> ===================================================
> I see ... in that case you should try instead enabling:
>
> CONFIG_ASUS_LAPTOP
>
> I think that Fn+F3/F4 adjusts the keyboard backlight.  Look at the help page
> in make menuconfig.
>
> HTH.
> ===================================================
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>
Providing some feedback, enabling the ASUS_LAPTOP option at least
enabled the lights and made a couple of the function key work, how it
seems that most function keys so far do nothing that I can determine.

The acpi4asus link provided by Paul is likely part of the solution
also but the instructions make a point of writing your own config file
and nowhere to be found yet are any examples of what to put in that
file. (But I really haven't looked much either.)

Anyway, the machine is working well enough to ship off to my mom so I
think she'll be pretty happy with it. Wish I had one of these babies.
Quite nice.

Cheers,
Mark