From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932414AbcKQO2V (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Nov 2016 09:28:21 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f54.google.com ([74.125.82.54]:36848 "EHLO mail-wm0-f54.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750714AbcKQO2S (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Nov 2016 09:28:18 -0500 From: Pali =?utf-8?q?Roh=C3=A1r?= To: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: "Setting old previous keyboard state failed" error on Dell E7270 Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 15:20:25 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.13.0-101-generic; KDE/4.14.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Matthew Garrett , platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gabriele.mzt@gmail.com References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3839890.tfXPiRF4cS"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201611171520.26866@pali> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart3839890.tfXPiRF4cS Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thursday 17 November 2016 15:13:59 Takashi Iwai wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:21:23 +0100, >=20 > Takashi Iwai wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 13:19:16 +0100, > >=20 > > Pali Roh=C3=A1r wrote: > > > Anyway, keyboard backlight control in kernel is implemented from > > > program smbios-keyboard-ctl provided and supported by Dell. I do > > > not see any update to that program in upstream git repository. > > >=20 > > > http://github.com/dell/libsmbios/blob/master/src/bin/smbios-keybo > > > ard-ctl > >=20 > > I'll give it a try shortly later. >=20 > Tried the latest git version now, and it didn't work. > At setting the mode via smbios-keyboard-ctl --set-mode, it always > return an error like: >=20 > Set Trigger Failed. Failed to write config > Error Return Code : cbRES1: 0x-2 cbRES2: 0xA000000 cbRES3: 0x0 >=20 > The error code is same no matter which mode is to set. =2E.. > > > 2) smbios-keyboard-ctl is not working too -- in this case please > > > report bug to that libsmbios project and Dell needs to fix it >=20 > So the latter case. > I'm going to ping smbios maintainer. Ok. Ideally also open public bug report on github tracker so other=20 people can find some information about it... =2D-=20 Pali Roh=C3=A1r pali.rohar@gmail.com --nextPart3839890.tfXPiRF4cS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAlgtvKoACgkQi/DJPQPkQ1Jq2QCgzYOEhcxzPn4XG+mOXcQQWAAJ 80AAn29SAZShW0pc4J5UigKEB59W+o9S =p2XC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3839890.tfXPiRF4cS--