19 mk 6 mint auto backlight

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19 mk 6 mint auto backlight

#1 Post by tgambob »

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?

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Re: 19 mk 6 mint auto backlight

#2 Post by UNCNDL1 »

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.?
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Re: 19 mk 6 mint auto backlight

#3 Post by tgambob »

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.

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Re: 19 mk 6 mint auto backlight

#4 Post by SHEEPMAN! »

Is light sensor a USB device?

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lsusb

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dmesg | grep backlight -i
We want to find the backlight in dmesg to see how the kernel is dealing with it.
:pat: First we need to find out what the critters name is. :pat:

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-i
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.

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Re: 19 mk 6 mint auto backlight

#5 Post by tgambob »

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

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Re: 19 mk 6 mint auto backlight

#6 Post by Shawn »

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
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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)"
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Re: 19 mk 6 mint auto backlight

#7 Post by kode-niner »

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

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lshw -short
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Re: 19 mk 6 mint auto backlight

#8 Post by Shawn »

Life will beat you into submission.

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Re: 19 mk 6 mint auto backlight

#9 Post by SHEEPMAN! »

Welcome Nick....it's all yours.
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Re: 19 mk 6 mint auto backlight

#10 Post by tgambob »

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

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