keyboard backlight

Keyboard backlighting for typing in the dark, for coolness and/or for gaming. For controlling individual LED lights, there's xset (different from xsetroot): led xset led named "Scroll Lock" x11/xset is also used for controlling power management (DPMS) for monitors (standby/suspend/on/off)...

Upgraded to 14 last year with no issues, but recent pkg upgrades breaks brightness buttons on ASUS UX461(F). kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin: could not load firmware image, error 2 i915_kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin: could not load firmware image, error 2 Keyboard backlight buttons are working but: ACPI Error...

The idea of this thread is to help anybody still not quite satisfied with his current keyboard on his quest for the perfect kb. Or at least a better one. What I like to see here is any keyboad, or manufacturer, offering something new, not listed here yet so far, best revolutionary, even exotic...

Hi, all Does anyone know to control RGB light on Asus Tuf 15 laptop keyboard. I tried with acpi_asus_wmi_load="YES" but that seems it is not helping in anything. Maybe I don't know how to use them. uname -a FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE #0 releng/13.0-n244733-ea31abc261f: Fri Apr...

I had bought this keyboard just before Covid from Amazon. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/fnatic-mini-streak-rgb-wired-gaming-mechanical-cherry-mx-silent-red-switch-keyboard-with-rgb-back-lighting-black/6354338.p?skuId=6354338 (Yeah, that' s Bestbuy, but whatever). Anyway, when I got it, I liked...

Im looking to get a new 60% mechanical keyboard or is a 65% keyboard a better idea Some of the features im looking for are a backlight keyboard, wired usb that works with Freebsd Does anyone have any recommendations in the £120 price range I came across the Ducky ONE2 Mini RGB Backlit Silent...

Anyone happen to attempt installation of a current version of FreeBSD on one of these? (https://www.asus.com/us/Laptops/ASUS-TUF-Gaming-FX505DY/Features/). The build seems like it might make for a nice durable little laptop. Primary concern is trying to determine what may (or may not) be...

I always have to workaround problems with new media- and gaming-keyboards or mouses. I can't run them well enough for office-usage or gaming. I can't configure my keyboard-illumination and no media-keys are working, special keys are also not running. Very similiar to mouses, the old mouse-driver...

It's been a while since I've been on FreeBSD, and I am thinking about putting it on the laptop I have now, but I really like my backlit keyboard and I don't want to lose that functionality. I searched the laptop compatibility page but mine isn't there and I'm not sure how to go about knowing...

I have a Cooler Master Devastator keyboard. It allows you to toggle its LED back-lighting with Scroll Lock. I have recently installed FreeBSD in a VM (VirtualBox on Windows 10) so I can explore a Unix-like OS. It uses Scroll Lock to control console scrolling. The problem I run across is that...

I wanted to create this thread as someone with a Macbook Pro 11,3 and try to get everything working as far as a laptop is concerned. That means; suspend and wake up, internal wifi, keyboard backlight, function keys, power management to get decent battery life and on this device the internal...

Hello everyone! Supernewbie here, but I have with Google, the handbook and by searching the forums solved almost every issue I had. Except for these - I have a backlight issue, that makes X (and for me KDE) almost black. And solve it after every boot with help of a flashlight to my screen...

Is it possible to control ThinkPad LEDs? I'm using FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT on ThinkPad T430. The driver acpi_ibm is supposed to provide such functionality. Under /dev/led I have: ahci0.0.fault ahci0.0.locate ahci0.1.fault ahci0.1.locate ahci0.4.fault ahci0.4.locate em0 thinklight I have no idea...

I have been struggling to find a way to control the Macbook keyboard backlight brightness under FreeBSD. After stumbling across this man page, I enabled the asmc kernel module and attempted to change some of the values using sysctl. However, there don't seem to be any MIBs related to smc: #...

Hi, I'm considering switching from Gentoo/Arch Linux to FreeBSD. I own an Asus Zenbook Prime UX31A with following webcam: ID 04f2:b330 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Asus 720p CMOS webcam I couldn't find the exact model in the wiki (there is a similar one, "CNF7129", though) - does anyone have...

Does anyone know if it is possible to control the keyboard backlight on the ASUS G53SW? (it should be the same as the G73 if that helps). I realize that freebsd FreeBSD is not linux but if it helps I can control the backlight in linux v3.0+ by writing a number to a file under /sys. cat...