keyboard backlight control on clevo P775DM3(-G)

Hi there ,
Im trying to figure out how to make it work under my Arch linux (last build).
https://bitbucket.org/tuxedocomputers/clevo-xsm-wmi
The Arch proper modules didnt work . Also the last provided by tuxedo seems not work. Any of you , maybe , succeeded to make it work?
Unfortunately when i type "dmesg | grep clevo" no model is displayed.
As reported my model should be compatible :
P775DM3(-G) Clevo P775DM3(-G) TUXEDO XUX707
But my brand is Santech so i didnt know if some small customization can make the difference for the final building.
I reported the request for add my model but unfortunately still nothing happens.
https://bitbucket.org/tuxedocomputers/clevo-xsm-wmi/issues/33/p7xxdm3-g-clevo-p775dm3-model-support
Tnx anyway.

 

Hi there,
I finally figured out how to make this work:
Finally... thanks to the community. Im using arch so having problems compiling from the source here provided https://bitbucket.org/tuxedocomputers/clevo-xsm-wmi/overview I managed doing so:
Installing the module and the utility provided on Aur.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/clevo-xsm-wmi-dkms/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/clevo-xsm-wmi-util/
Then I downloaded the source from here and uncompressed the tuxedoxxx.zip and modified as follow. I found that the description of my model in dmidecode have a "dash - " before the "parenthesis ( " and not after as stated in the clevo-xsm-wmi.c file.
So as suggested by devstructor devstructor here : https://bitbucket.org/tuxedocomputers/clevo-xsm-wmi/issues/41/pa71hp6-not-working I added the following lines between the model listed near the end of the file.

Code:

{
       .ident = "Clevo P7xxDM3-(G)",
        .matches = {
            DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "P7xxDM3-(G)"),
        },
        .callback = clevo_xsm_dmi_matched,
        .driver_data = &kb_full_color_ops,
    },

After this i changed always in the same file clevo-xsm-wmi.c this as suggested by bolog here https://bitbucket.org/tuxedocomputers/clevo-xsm-wmi/issues/20/sager-np8174-not-working :

Code:

CLEVO_XSM_DEBUG("%0#4x  IN : %0#6x\n", method_id, arg);

status = wmi_evaluate_method(CLEVO_GET_GUID, 0x01,
   method_id, &in, &out);

changed to:

Code:

CLEVO_XSM_DEBUG("%0#4x  IN : %0#6x\n", method_id, arg);

status = wmi_evaluate_method(CLEVO_GET_GUID, 0x00,
   method_id, &in, &out);

After those small modifications I copied the modified module substituting the module provided in Aur: sudo cp clevo-xsm-wmi.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/input/keyboard/clevo-xsm-wmi.ko

Now the back light work.

 

Hello there,

Tuxedo computers have been refactoring the code of late, and you should be using this version: https://github.com/tuxedocomputers/tuxedo-keyboard

Their documentation is a work in progress, but I'd recommend taking the DKMS route: https://gist.github.com/Brainiarc7/...ght-control-by-tuxedo-keyboard-wmi-handler-md


Steps:

mkdir -p ~/clevo && cd clevo
git clone https://github.com/tuxedocomputers/tuxedo-keyboard
cd tuxedo-keyboard
make clean
sudo cp -R . /usr/src/tuxedo_keyboard-1
sudo dkms add -m tuxedo_keyboard -v 1
sudo dkms build -m tuxedo_keyboard -v 1
sudo dkms install -m tuxedo_keyboard -v 1

Perhaps an Arch maintainer should create this package for the AUR? That'd be awesome