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| From | Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: "Setting old previous keyboard state failed" error on Dell E7270 |
| Date | 2016-11-17 15:30 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <sEvRo-1Pv-13@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <sEt3c-8sS-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <sEvRo-1Pv-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <sEvRo-1Pv-17@gated-at.bofh.it> |
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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... -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@gmail.com
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"Setting old previous keyboard state failed" error on Dell E7270 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> - 2016-11-17 12:30 +0100
Re: "Setting old previous keyboard state failed" error on Dell E7270 Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-11-17 15:30 +0100
Re: "Setting old previous keyboard state failed" error on Dell E7270 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> - 2016-11-17 18:10 +0100
Re: "Setting old previous keyboard state failed" error on Dell E7270 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> - 2016-11-17 15:40 +0100
Re: "Setting old previous keyboard state failed" error on Dell E7270 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> - 2016-11-17 15:40 +0100
Re: "Setting old previous keyboard state failed" error on Dell E7270 Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-11-17 19:10 +0100
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