Now, as you can see below (line 12), backlight is now being controlled by the video driver leds]# dmesg | grep asus Now, to enable the keyboard backlight, run the below command as root leds]# modprobe asus-nb-wmi The below directory is where the settings for the keyboard backlight are supposed to be stored. asus-nb-wmi: probe of asus-nb-wmi failed with error -5 input: Asus WMI hotkeys as /devices/platform/asus-nb-wmi/input/input10 asus_wmi: ASUS WMI generic driver loaded
You see, after updating the kernel to version 3.9.x and running the below command I found an error with asus-nb-wmi (see line 7) leds]# dmesg | grep asus I did my research and was able to find the solution for this problem. After updating to (I believe) kernel version 3.8.x the keyboard backlight stopped working, bummer. When I first installed Fedora 18 ‘Spherical Cow’ in my new ASUS N56V, the keyboard backlight was working perfectly. Backlit keyboards are pretty usual these days, beside being cool looking, they are very useful at night.
