On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 15:20:25 +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > > On Thursday 17 November 2016 15:13:59 Takashi Iwai wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:21:23 +0100, > > > > Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 13:19:16 +0100, > > > > > > Pali Rohár wrote: > > > > Anyway, keyboard backlight control in kernel is implemented from > > > > program smbios-keyboard-ctl provided and supported by Dell. I do > > > > not see any update to that program in upstream git repository. > > > > > > > > http://github.com/dell/libsmbios/blob/master/src/bin/smbios-keybo > > > > ard-ctl > > > > > > I'll give it a try shortly later. > > > > Tried the latest git version now, and it didn't work. > > At setting the mode via smbios-keyboard-ctl --set-mode, it always > > return an error like: > > > > Set Trigger Failed. Failed to write config > > Error Return Code : cbRES1: 0x-2 cbRES2: 0xA000000 cbRES3: 0x0 > > > > The error code is same no matter which mode is to set. > ... > > > > 2) smbios-keyboard-ctl is not working too -- in this case please > > > > report bug to that libsmbios project and Dell needs to fix it > > > > So the latter case. > > I'm going to ping smbios maintainer. > > Ok. Ideally also open public bug report on github tracker so other > people can find some information about it...
FYI, I found one there and now put my comment: https://github.com/dell/libsmbios/issues/3 Takashi
