Asus Keyboard Backlight Not Working

[adia...@gmail.com]

I just bought an Asus Zenbook 3 and was able to successfully install Qubes. Really enjoying it so far. I'm having trouble getting the keyboard backlight to work.  I tried xset commands, configurations in xfce, and even tried to turn it on manually via the asus::kbd_backlight configuration folder. Unfortunately, that folder does not exist.  Does anyone have any ideas what else I can try?

I'd like to get the FN+F3 and FN+F4 shortcuts to work, but I"ll settle for jsut turning the LEDs on. I am often working in dark rooms and if I can't figure it out I'll probably end up switching distributions, which I really don't want to do. I really like Qubes so far.

[awokd]

adia...@gmail.com:

You might try to poke around in /sys/class/ and see if the keyboard
backlight control is surfaced somewhere in there, unless that is what
you mean by asus::kbd_backlight folder.

[Church870]

1. Yea, the other LED controls are in /sys/class/leds/, but asus::kbd_backlight is missing. I did a bunch of find commands for any config file or folder that had backlight, keyboard, kbd, asus, or anything similar and didn't find it either. I tried to create the folder, but wasn't able to. I might just be out of luck unless there's some package somewhere I can download that creates the directory.

[Church870]

Just hoping to bump this... I really enjoy Qubes so far, but the lack of keyboard backlight is kind of a deal breaker... :(