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I have this cheap backlit keyboard from Krom: "Krom Kombat". On windows the backlight works fine without issues without any driver installation. On Linux (tried on 3 distros) it doesn't.
But the weird thing is that when I was on the "live cd environment" (on arch only, didn't try it during install on any other distro), I could turn the backlight on, but it would freeze the keyboard until I turned them off again (the on/off is the scroll lock key).
I have checked around on google and arch forums and found mostly stuff about laptob keyboards and usually the solutions involved a /sys/class/leds file, but I don't even have the leds folder on my arch installation.
Any ideas?
Thanks for reading.
Last edited by flpmorais (2015-03-16 12:24:36)
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"xset led 3" to turn it on
"xset -led 3" to turn it off
also
"sudo xmodmap -e 'add mod3 = Scroll_Lock'" ##This makes the scroll lock key turn the backlight on and off (but does not override "xset led 3").
Found answers here: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s … ion/241299 (Comment #15 by RickB); comment #20 has a script rick made to start kb backlight on boot.
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