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    g73jh backlight music

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by dead4ngel, May 30, 2011.

  1. dead4ngel

    dead4ngel Notebook Consultant

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    dead4ngel, May 30, 2011
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    That's awesome! I'm interested too.
     
    Aldosterone, May 30, 2011
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    that is neat lol, but could be mistaken for faulty keyboard lights :D
     
    Gurista Pirate, May 30, 2011
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    Probably not in windows. You could do this in linux because the keyboard lights are exposed in sysfs so you can control them with scripts or through any app that can write the file. But in windows I don't know of a 3rd party utility to control the keyboard lights.
     
    ALLurGroceries, May 30, 2011
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    I'm sure if someone was interested enough that had the skillset they could do it.

    Hell someone wrote a script for the G50 oled so I don't see a reason why this wouldn't be possible.
     
    nadcicle, May 30, 2011
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    true. i have been searching for ages. aint found nothing on a windows app that does this. its not faulty lights either because there are loads of videos up. If you find anything let me know. thanks
     
    dead4ngel, May 30, 2011
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    bump :)

    anyone got any info on this?
     
    dead4ngel, Jun 27, 2011
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    It might be possible using this RW - Read & Write

    But you will need a Programmer and lotf of Soda to figure it all out I am sure.

    I use RW to make the fans go to 100%, so I am sure there are other things that could control the lights ....

    I am just toss this out for someone smarter than me to mess with.
     
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    aw. thanks anyway.
     
    dead4ngel, Jun 27, 2011
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    And how ? its can works under windows 7 ? i want to have same - lights in music beat :(
    Have anyone script to Winamp or something like that?
     
    Damian_jo, Jul 10, 2011
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    Probably not as smoothly as the MBP, since the lighting for the keyboard seems to be in 2-3 steps (using some sort of super-low transistor count IC, I'm sure) rather than a rheostat that gradually increases the voltage.
     
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    English please lol
     
    dead4ngel, Jul 11, 2011
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    The MBP gets a nice smooth increase in kb backlighting - asus has 4 settings - off, low, med-low, med-high, and high.

    Usually means the voltage is slowly being increased for the MBP to increase the light at a steady rate - the SMDs are good for that, no plastic for diffusion, so you can use a really small amount of juice. voltage increases on diodes are tricky though ... i'm not 100% how the mbp backlighting works, I havn't actually looked at one - but asus keyboards dont adjust smoothly.
     
    DCx, Jul 11, 2011
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