On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@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
