~Toughbooktalk~

Hi I was wondering if anyone else with a 19 mk6 running mint had luck with the ambient light sensor? I have kinda given up on my front buttons and my luck with screen calibration worked somewhat. The thing that bugs me the most is the auto back light, turns out I kinda got used to it. Any advice or direction on this one?

I have a MK6 on order, but not in hands yet. I know Shawn has one and I think is using Zorin. He'll chime in soon I would think. The Mk 6 is similar to newer CF-31's so Sheepman might have some insight. Have you tried booting any other distributions of Linux yet i.e. Debian based such as MX-16, LMDE2, etc.?

I only have mint and Kali (light sensor does not seem to work on either) along with Windows on this machine. I will make a USB of Zorin and try that. Kali runs my touch screen much better then mint.

Is light sensor a USB device? We want to find the backlight in dmesg to see how the kernel is dealing with it.

First we need to find out what the critters name is.

does away with need for capitalization. i as in IDA.

This may require a line by line read of dmesg.

Systemd might be grabbing control and not letting it go as it does with the gobi card gps (Gobi2000).

Give LMDE2 a try.....or LinuxMint 17.3???

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/backlight Might be worth a read for some clues. Writing a .conf is probably the answer once we know the naming convention.

Zorin is Ubuntu. Look for answers in the Ubuntu forums.

Jeff

I must be doing something wrong I actually lost the whole command line with the second piece of code. The dmesg by itself gave me a bunch of code I have been looking through. I found alot of usb errors listed though. Sorry kinda learning linux as I go along

maybe some info from this win7 driver

SystemInterfaceMgrApp_v11.01l11_191_192_W732_ss11114

Maybe connected to hotkeys
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[Startup]
AppName=System Interface Manager
ProductGUID=943622A3-F5E9-464F-A025-90D02F3B8ACE
CompanyName=Panasonic
ErrorReportURL=http://www.installshield.com/isetup/Pro ... rorCode=%d : 0x%x&ErrorInfo=%s
MediaFormat=0
LogMode=1
Resource=_Setup.dll
SmallProgress=N
SplashTime=5
CheckMD5=Y
CmdLine=
ShowPasswordDialog=N
EngineVersion=12.0.0.58855
EngineBinding=1
[Languages]
Default=0x0009
count=2
key0=0x0009
key1=0x0011
-------------------------------------
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Panasonic\Hotkey Appendix]
"MenuString_JP"="Hotkey設定(&S)"
"MenuString_US"="Hotkey &Settings"
"MenuString_SC"="热键的设定(&S)"

lshw (list hardware). Might need to install it.

this

https://github.com/danieleds/Asus-Zenbo ... Controller

Welcome Nick....it's all yours.

thank you. I had stumbled upon that asus link about 20 minutes ago. I was working backwards from a thread I found about disabling it. Ubuntu Forums
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2203589.

I will try this method in a few minutes. I'm trying to teach myself all this stuff as I go.

Once all this stuff gets ironed out someone should compile a toughbook version lol