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‎07-05-2017 03:12 PM

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Product: 15-an000na
Operating System: Linux

Trying to work out how to turn on the built in keyboard backlight in linux.

Looked in /sys/class/leds and there is nothing there that looks like it would cover the KB if anyone has any ideas how i can get round this.

is the hardware the same as is used in any other machine?

any suggestions greatly apprechiated in advance.

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‎07-05-2017 03:26 PM - edited ‎07-05-2017 03:27 PM

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I found this about writing a script that controls the D-bus input and the backlight for Linux

 

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Keyboard_backlight

 

And this:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rur_QAoVZmw

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