AlienFX Lite (Linux + Windows AlienFX tool)

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I have a feeling that it is something very little and foolish...

mark@Alienware:~$ sudo java -jar AlienFXLite-0.4b.jar -s
Unable to access jarfile AlienFXLite-0.4b.jar

Any help? BTW, do I have to move the .jar file somewhere specific, or just leave it on my desktop? (using m11x)

 

Hello,

First of all I would like to thank you for this great tool.
It's especially usefull to me because I have a problem with my AlienXF card. It broke down when i updated a version of CC. I don't remember whoch version it was, but i do remember it was the first one i got from the Dell website .
Anyway i red long and in many places and tryed many things. Now I know nothing is physically wrong with the AlienFX card, but somehow the software got really screwed up. No reflashing of any newer version of CC worked and the card was undetectable by any software, up to a few days ago when at work we had some fire drill and they torned off the power, and we all left the building. When i came back inside, the power turned on and a few of the lights on my M17x R1 were on. Well it's now detectable by the LED TESTER and your application. The CC still doesn't work on it. Now i still have a problem. Your AlienFX Lite(0.04b) application works on my system (win7 x64) with the glitches mentioned by other users - only being able to apply once, then restart needed, communication error sometimes. However non of that matters to me . It is able to do what i need it to do. Set the lights on on some color ( /cheer). However it has no keyboard zones. It just has one keyboard field.

Is there some intended reason why this would happend ?
Does the application try to detect what laptop i have ? If so that might be the problem, because as i said the card went "nuts"

Any thoughts please ?

And I just want to add one more thing. This forum helped me a lot with my problem and I am extremely thankfull.

 

Wattos, fantastic app you've got here. It worked great for about one week, and then as i was playing around w it, it crashed. now every time i launch the .4b i receive the error message

" The application was unable to communicate with the alienfx device. The device is not present, or the application lacks sufficient rights to access the device."

now im stuck w absolutely no light, bar the alien head power button flashing constantly. and the back lid occasionally works to the profile i set it using ur software while on battery.

Ive reinstalled java and the application to no avail. i am running as administrator. Does anyone know of any possible solutions?? Any help will be Immensely appreciated.

ps my computer is an alienware m15x ripley model, windows 7 ultimate 32 bit.

 

Is it possible to import CC themes or share themes that you make with Fxlite?

 

If I wanted to run this in Snow Leopard, how would I go about doing so?

 

Is it just me or does the alienware head not change color? Everything else does except that one.

nvm, I realized my problem.

 

Thanks for this, I hate Alienware's applications for their slow, bloated GUI's. Using a M11X R2.

What I'd love to see though is a way to switch theme by running the .prof file. So I can make AutoHotKey do some automatic profile switching.
That and some smoother transitions.
How come you can only put in two command blocks for the power button? Is it a system limitation?

 

Same problem, does anyone know how to fix it?
My computer is an Alienware m11x, ubuntu 10.10 64 bit.

 

can i make this auto start on linux without the sudo command?

 

You don't need sudo if you have read and write access to the usb device. You can have this set automatically using a udev rule. I'd give you the rule, but I'm not running Linux on mine right now. I forgot, does it give an error with a device path when you run it and you aren't sudo? You can also just add chmod 766 /sys/dev/whatever to the rc.local file if you don't want to mess with udev.

 

what rule are you talking about?
yeah im having an error if i put the commands without a sudo...

 

Hi Guys, I'm using Asus G51v but i want to use this app on my laptop...so Can you show me What i gonna do to use it on my laptop....!!!! please

 

Sorry, this is for Alienware ONLY, the ASUS keyboard doesn't use the same tech.

 

so. What is software support for keyboard Asus Laptop

 

There isn't any. Your laptop is completely different, using a completely different system. As far as I know, your laptop's lights physically can't change colour.

 

wattos thank you so much for the application.

is there anyway it could be run in 32-bit linux?

 

I'm running in 32bit Ubuntu just fine. It's better than the official windows alienfx tool. Now I can have a blue/green pulsating power button with red eyes flashing on HDD access

 

Does it work with M17x R3?

 

It doesn't work with mine. It cannot find the AlienFX controller.

 

Same here; I really wish it would work for the R3 as there's a really nice light purple that is only achieved in the middle of a morph step that I want to have as a constant color.

 

wattos thanks for the neat source codes, i learned a lot

 

Is there anyway to develop this for the M17x R3...

 

I used this and as soon as i did the AW logo on my screen went out. I went into command center and i cant turn it back on. Any thoughts. - M11xr2

 

Hello, I've been looking everywhere ever since I got my M17X, is there any way I can make my keyboard flash when I get an IM from aim. I saw elsewhere on this forum that you,Wattos, mentioned writing a similar thing for the windows live messenger, just wondering if this was possible for aim?

 

Gotta Slight Problem. I haven't had time to read through this whole thread as i will after i post this but after i followed instructionsi get no logo light or keyboard light anymore. running windows 7 64bit. Also don't get any of the extra buttons like in the tutorial video, Actually i don't even get a command center. wierd....hope nothin fried..lol

 

almost forgot... i have the m17x r1. and what i meant by extra buttons is after i programmed the code i right clicked and ran as admin and the console was very stripped compared to the video's tutorial. hmmmm....please reply

Well after careful review i'm starting to wonder if it was even worth posting because the hard reset didn't work and no one has replied to anyone else with these identical issues so either a)we screwed our sh#$ up and nothing we can do bout it like disclaimer tells us in 1st place or b) no one is listening to us anymore cause we're screwed....either way lmao cause i just trashed 5k unit.....dueces....!!!!!!!!!

Well, after 3 hard reset/power drains I'm convinced it's fried. I do remember at first when I executed the shortcut as admin the lights powered down at that point. Keyboard and Logo under the display screen. I think my last option is a complete partition reformat yada yada yada...dunno...all of these brains and no answers. Well guess tis my fault anyhow.....lol

 

Don't suppose you could shoot me a direct link to that 0.4b....seems all i can get is 0.1 or am i really just a newb..hehe

 

I'm not one for bumping but its just one of those small bugs that annoys. Doesn't seem like anyone else has had this problem. I'm thinking I may have to call up my warranty and just say the lights died.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
DeeVu

 

Unfortunately it's not working on the M14x, is there any info i could provide to make it work?

Using Ubuntu 11.04 X64.

 

is this project dead?

 

Looks like it.

 

Someone asked in an earlier post about AlienFX Lite-0.4b and how they could obtain it. Check the link below, good luck!

MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service

or

http://www.4shared.com/file/k6nNb-ew/AlienFXLite-04b.html

or email me and I'll send it to you, thanks hope this helps.

 

is 0.4b supposed to work with M17xR3 ?

if no, does anybody plan to add support for it ?

if no, it would be nice to post a Howto so that anybody can add support for present and future versions of Alienware machines.

 

Just tried your awesome FXLite, Wattos! +More than deserved rep)

 

I patched it to work with the m14x

You can download it from here
MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service

http://scarmiglione.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/alienware-fx-en-m14x-para-gnulinux/

 

It tells me it can't find the main class. I checked the manifest file, and everything is in order, so I don't know what's up. Any ideas?

 

I just installed it and had the same problem. It sounds like your shortcut isn't created right. You can't just run the alienFe.jar file... Your short cut has to run the javaw.exe file (with the working directrory set to Java) - Just like a prior post on this thread said btw.

1. Find the Javaw.exe file (where you installed java).
2. Right Click and drag to create a shortcut. Now shortcut is setup properly.
3. modify the short cut properties' "Target" setting to add the following command line options:
Either...
-jar [alienfxlight.jar with full path]
or
-jar [alienfxlite.jar with full path] -s

Second option just starts as a service.

BTW +REP TO THE AUTHOR!

What is this xxxlite software that has more functionality than the original??!??!!! Great Software!

• Left and Right front panel are independently controlled
• More controll over the power light (more states possible)
• More colors possible (I can create a dim almost black color for my night-time scheme)
• Eats far less resources than the original AlienFX

Thanks Again!

 

Thank you mate ! It's working for my m14x on Fedora 15 (my NVIDIA also thanks to bumblebee)

 

Hey ismaelpsp, can you describe what you did to make it work for m14x. So that if we get the source for 0.4b we can make it work for m14x. Turning the lights "off" by making them black still seems to drain battery, where as 0.4b has an off feature

 

thanks man it's really appreciated.
rep+

 

Very neatttt.

 

Hello,

I read all the thread. Thank you to Wattos for is work!

Unfortunately, it doesn't work on my m11x r3...
tried lsusb

ID: 0187c : 0522

Then I look into the source file main.ccp of AlienFXlite.0.4b

Do someone think that if I change : "

#define ALLPOWERFULL_M11X_ALIENFX_PID 0x514
#define ALLPOWERFULL_M11X_ALIENFX_VID 0x187c

with

#define ALLPOWERFULL_M11X_ALIENFX_PID 0x 522
#define ALLPOWERFULL_M11X_ALIENFX_VID 0x187c

????

 

Great job on this Wattos!

One question: whenever I boot the computer, it starts with the FX Lite profile, but then jumps back to the normal Command Center colors, and I have to manually change it back to the FX Lite color scheme, seemingly because FX Lite doesn't run on startup and CC takes over. Is there a way to either have FX Lite run on startup or simply override CC to prevent this from happening?

Thanks!

 

When you run this, should the normal Alienfx program be completely closed out? When I'm trying to set my grill colors, it seems to only light one up or both will light up and one will go out. I have a m11x r1.

 

Forgive me if this has been answered already, but can someone point me to the source for AlienFX-0.4b ?

 

source code for version 0.4b

Download jAlienFX.zip from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way

 

Hey everybody !

I'm developping a new driver as Wattos don't have time anymore !
In order to do it more easily and for a lot of people to join the construction of it, it is made in python !

So far, I have been able to get the Comand Center NON ADVANCED functionnality to work for an M11XR3 187c:0522 !

This driver intend to be an universal AlienFX Control Center ! Indeed, the support for M11X, M15X, ect ! would be really neat !

So it will be coded in a way that makes it easy to add new computer as well as new functionality !

Check it out there : https://code.google.com/p/pyalienfx/

Any help is more than welcomed !

 

Would welcome it xqua. I get the fx lite is a little buggy. Don't click apply too many times in a row! lol

 

Hello everybody,

Update : New version beta realeased, new GUI, Advanced functionnality possible !
Check it out here ! : https://code.google.com/p/pyalienfx/

to hankaaron57 : I see you have a M17X ! can you try my driver and give your comments please !

 

I will be more than happy to try it tomorrow.


*Edit: you only have a tar uploaded? No windows-ready file? I guess I can still try it on Mint then.