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Wuensch · ‎01-09-2013

Hey All,

I don't know if this is the appropriate spot for this question, but I figured I would ask. I have a G74SX laptop that I dual boot Win 8 and Linux Mint KDE on. I was wondering if anyone has had luck getting the back lit keyboard to work on Linux Mint KDE 14? I had Ubuntu 12.04 installed a little while ago and the back lit keyboard worked great.

I've done a bunch of looking around, but have turned up mostly dead ends. Anyone had any success getting around this issue? Thanks!

xeromist · ‎01-09-2013

Moved to notebook area since this is a notebook question.

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fostert · ‎01-09-2013

Check out this thread:
http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?10749-Linux-drivers-and-atk-for-linux&country=&status=
Works perfectly on my G74 running Debian.

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G74SX-CST1-CBIL, i7 2630QM 2GHz
32GB DDR3 RAM @1333MHz
GTX560M 3GB DDR5 (192 bit)
17.3" LED 1920x1080
Sentelic TP, BIOS 203
Debian Linux Wheezy (Testing) Kernel 3.2, NVIDIA 295.40

Zygomorphic · ‎01-10-2013

Somebody put out a driver for the ASUS laptops, and the commands necessary to enable it are in the thread that @fostert linked to.

Thanks, @fostert! 🙂

I am disturbed because I cannot break my system...found out there were others trying to cope! We have a support group on here, if your system will not break, please join!
http://rog.asus.com/forum/group.php?groupid=16
We now have 178 people whose systems will not break! Yippee! 🙂
LINUX Users, we have a group!
http://rog.asus.com/forum/group.php?groupid=23

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