From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PsQcP-0005XP-Bp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 02:07:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EFEE01C02E for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 02:07:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 771FD1C012 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:19:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb17 with SMTP id 17so84835wwb.10 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:19:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=FZpGZwhVEvbD9T742mJlr71PPRsiGDdrxK7whr0r9lY=; b=w1MMx+n2uRnRV4opQaRNX3PYRKjcQ9LbUam/ebPWats/jBMPdWaPf8oK47xjzTigqj IzSOwB+dtJnx9woJWrOnvbPofp7q60BWA3D35Kyxe+YZi839FXZmD2NHriA4JKc9TwzS EZPe6Hq40MYrYeSlu8UqPLQA+M6bc5DhLmgaQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Ekx015OZzhPAT57g57tFchQoR7m2Ak9cIUqOhO3ANi0OTX4wocuACa6X5IcGKfNM8A pOcslguXBn5Bb3G9elBLW2xEw4XHXEXIKFxOf1TFmDykTXmK6AfahpfaxSisf/B8Tk5B Qqb9bfKN+i3qUsU87erR2J8L/LOIeQc4yda3M= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.19.139 with SMTP id n11mr132082wen.78.1298510346548; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:19:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.90.136 with HTTP; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:19:06 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201102232332.48803.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <201102232332.48803.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:19:06 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] keyboard lighting control? From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Mick Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 2a6c325e4ca18b55e5555627f9fc6966 On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Mick 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 m= ake >> >> 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 declara= tion > was made by the OP, I suggested differently of course: > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D > I see ... in that case you should try instead enabling: > > CONFIG_ASUS_LAPTOP > > I think that Fn+F3/F4 adjusts the keyboard backlight. =C2=A0Look at the h= elp page > in make menuconfig. > > HTH. > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D > -- > 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