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tuxmark5 / ApexCtl

An utility to enable extra macro keys on Steelseries Apex keyboards
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0
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Apex M500 support #48

Closed fasel closed 7 years ago

fasel commented 7 years ago

Hi,

i got an Apex M500 keyboard and apexctl seems not to support it. It complies fine but i'm not able to set the brighttness. They M500 does not have multimedia key but they backlight is quite bright so i'd like to dim it. Any chance to make it work? I run Ubuntu 16.04.1 dmesg output:

[102838.531378] usb 1-1.2: USB disconnect, device number 5
[102842.064019] usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-pci
[102842.158480] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=1038, idProduct=1607
[102842.158483] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[102842.158484] usb 1-1.2: Product: SteelSeries Apex M500 Gaming Keyboard
[102842.158485] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: SteelSeries
[102842.159625] input: SteelSeries SteelSeries Apex M500 Gaming Keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.0/0003:1038:1607.0007/input/input45
[102842.212437] hid-generic 0003:1038:1607.0007: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [SteelSeries SteelSeries Apex M500 Gaming Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:1a.0-1.2/input0
[102842.213653] hid-generic 0003:1038:1607.0008: hiddev0,hidraw3: USB HID v1.11 Device [SteelSeries SteelSeries Apex M500 Gaming Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:1a.0-1.2/input1
[102842.214952] input: SteelSeries SteelSeries Apex M500 Gaming Keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.2/0003:1038:1607.0009/input/input46
[102842.268317] hid-generic 0003:1038:1607.0009: input,hidraw4: USB HID v1.11 Device [SteelSeries SteelSeries Apex M500 Gaming Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:1a.0-1.2/input2
[102842.269299] input: SteelSeries SteelSeries Apex M500 Gaming Keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.3/0003:1038:1607.000A/input/input47
[102842.324637] hid-generic 0003:1038:1607.000A: input,hidraw5: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [SteelSeries SteelSeries Apex M500 Gaming Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:1a.0-1.2/input3
[103106.516076] /dev/vmmon[0]: HostIFReadUptimeWork: detected settimeofday: fixed uptimeBase old 18445260569967027436 new 18445260569965808884 attempts 1
fasel commented 7 years ago

just noticed that there are special keys on the F-keys that let you dim the backlight.