Keyboard Backlight not working asus G73SW

[vidcollector]

I have been searching different forums to see how to get the keyboard backlight working on my asus laptop.

I am running
cat /etc/*-release
LSB_VERSION=lsb-3.1-ia32:lsb-3.1-noarch
DISTRIB_ID=PCLinuxOS
DISTRIB_RELEASE=
DISTRIB_CODENAME=
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="PCLinuxOS"
PCLinuxOS release 2012 (PCLinuxOS) for i586
PCLinuxOS release 2012 (PCLinuxOS) for i586
PCLinuxOS release 2012 (PCLinuxOS) for i586
PCLinuxOS release 2012 (PCLinuxOS) for i586
PCLinuxOS release 2012 (PCLinuxOS) for i586

I keep the distro upto date with update notifier turn on

The keyboard lights up on bootup.

Can any one help?

Thanks

Paul

[vidcollector]

I have downloaded some scripts from
https://github.com/ktoso/g73-keyboard-backlight-sh

I have made the scripts executable

However there are folders in the sripts that don't exit on my machine and attempt to create them fails with "could not make folder, when using Konquerer in super user mode.

However is the /sys/class/leds folder the correct folder or should /sys/class backlight be the right folder

So 2 questions

Paul

[coffeetime]

I have been searching different forums to see how to get the keyboard backlight working on my asus laptop.

Which Asus laptop do you have in mind? N series? You can try to add to kernel boot acpi_backlight=vendor, but I think you'll have to wait until we reach kernel 3.5/3.6

>vidcollector

/sys/class/backlight should be the right one

[vidcollector]

May laptop is an ASUS G73SW, which file do I need to place

kernel boot acpi_backlight=vendor?

[horusfalcon]

I have been searching different forums to see how to get the keyboard backlight working on my asus laptop.

Which Asus laptop do you have in mind? N series? You can try to add to kernel boot acpi_backlight=vendor, but I think you'll have to wait until we reach kernel 3.5/3.6

>vidcollector

/sys/class/backlight should be the right one

This is for keyboard backlighting? 

Wow... what a nice feature.  I use a Saitek Eclipse Limited Edition Red, myself.  Works well without extra drivers, and I like the red lighting.

Later On,
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