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Keyboard LED control for the Clevo PA70ES

8 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 8 comments · first 2019-11-18 · latest 2026-07-04

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  1. …engineer it and write a free software replacement! I did this for my Clevo laptop's keyboard LEDs: https://github.com/matheusmoreira/ite-829x Still one of my most satisfying projects and I use it to this day. These manufacturer apps are so…
  2. …was so terrible I reverse engineered it and made my own Linux free software replacement. https://github.com/matheusmoreira/ite-829x It seems some Tuxedo laptops have the same keyboard. Maybe Tuxedo users will find it useful.
  3. …they sell. Years ago I reverse engineered the keyboard's features and wrote a user space driver. https://github.com/matheusmoreira/ite-829x I interacted with Tuxedo quite a few times back then while I was figuring this stuff out. They even…
  4. …to keep stuff in user space whenever possible. This is my driver in case anyone's interested: https://github.com/matheusmoreira/ite-829x I just remembered something else. They used to be on bitbucket instead of github. In 2018 I messaged…
    comment by matheusmoreira · 2023-11-13 · in Tuxedo Pulse Gen 3
  5. …free time and attention. For example, I wrote a user space driver for my laptop's keyboard LEDs: https://github.com/matheusmoreira/ite-829x I just wanted to turn them off because they default to bright blue lights. Then I thought it'd be…
    comment by matheusmoreira · 2022-07-02 · in Open source is not about you (2018)
  6. …project in case anyone wants to see how it works or create a custom version for their own hardware: https://github.com/matheusmoreira/ite-829x It was just a matter of figuring out what data the manufacturer's application sends to the…
  7. …for the keyboard LEDs. If it's the same model, maybe they'd be interested in taking a look at it: https://github.com/matheusmoreira/ite-829x I found a WMI driver in their repositories but it doesn't match the way my keyboard works:…
  8. …protocol?) I used hidapi-libusb to create a small program that sends those bytes to the keyboard: https://github.com/matheusmoreira/ite-829x/blob/master/ite-8... This user space driver gave me access to most of my keyboard's functionality…
    comment by matheusmoreira · 2019-11-18 · in Writing userspace USB drivers for abandoned devices