Keyboard backlight buttons on samsung laptop.

Dragseth Roy Einar roy.dragseth at uit.no
Thu Feb 13 20:07:03 UTC 2014


Do anyone know how to get the keyboard backlight buttons to work?

On my samsung laptop the keys Fn+F7 and Fn+F8 triggers this 
message from the kernel

[56921.236060] atkbd serio0: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, 
code 0x96 on isa0060/serio0).
[56921.236073] atkbd serio0: Use 'setkeycodes e016 <keycode>' to 
make it known.
[56921.442785] atkbd serio0: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, 
code 0x97 on isa0060/serio0).
[56921.442796] atkbd serio0: Use 'setkeycodes e017 <keycode>' to 
make it known.

Do anyone know what <keycode> should be so that KDE will pick up 
and interpret these buttons to adjust the keyboard backlight?  System 
Settings already have entries for adjusting keyboard backlight so it 
seems to only be a question of mapping them correctly.

I can manipulate the backlight by doing 

echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/samsung/leds/samsung\:
\:kbd_backlight/brightness


Regards,
Roy.


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