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Re: 19 mk 6 mint auto backlight

Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 5:11 pm
by kode-niner
SHEEPMAN! wrote:Welcome Nick....it's all yours.

What the... Eeeeh, I guess I didn't get the memo about your name change! :lauging:

Anyway,. this is my line of thinking. Use lshw or some other utility to identify the hardware involved, then hope to find a kernel module to enable it. As far as I know, most of these are ACPI.

Re: 19 mk 6 mint auto backlight

Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 5:38 pm
by SHEEPMAN!
I've been all over the place on this and it's a little hard since I don't own a MK6. :)

Let me check my PM, Shawn and I had some stuff in there....

Something Shawn found:
https://github.com/victorenator/als/arc ... .zip###hot link yields this:

Re: 19 mk 6 mint auto backlight

Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2017 10:23 am
by Shawn
Zorin live on a CF 19 mk6.

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Re: 19 mk 6 mint auto backlight

Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2017 3:33 pm
by SHEEPMAN!
Permission denied is a signal that systemd got involved.

Systemd does that with Gobi cards is where I learned this.

What to do with ALS is beyond me at this point.

Good post Shawn.

From a NBR PM of mine.
From terminal: systemctl stop gpsd.socket
Releases systemd hold on Gobi cards so Gobi GPS works. THIS JUST FOR INFORMATION. There is a little more to it then that. :)

Re: 19 mk 6 mint auto backlight

Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2017 11:49 am
by kode-niner
SHEEPMAN! wrote:Permission denied is a signal that systemd got involved.
Looks like the results of a find command run as a user and not as root or sudo'ed.

To the OP, have you had any trouble compiling https://github.com/danieleds/Asus-Zenbo ... Controller or https://github.com/victorenator/als/archive/master.zip ? The latter being one that also showed up in my searches, as well as Shawn's.

Re: 19 mk 6 mint auto backlight

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 3:46 pm
by tgambob
Sorry it took so long in getting back to yall the weather broke and work went nuts. I did not have any luck, the Asus controller broke my mint somehow. I no longer have sound or any control over the screen brightness, the buttons on the front work and show a Lil box on screen but no matter what setting the back light is off so I can barely read it. I may trash this install and start over now that I know a Lil more, I probably did something dumb most likely this or the auto screen rotation I was trying with the gps lol if it has accelerometer and gyroscope why not use them.