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I have converted an Acer 317 17" Chromebook to "BookwormPup64 10.0.5", which is excellent. The only problem is lack of control of the Keyboard backlighting, which sometimes turns off. I can start it again by booting with a Mint Cinnamon 21 USB, then with BP64. I need code for the terminal to switch the LEDS on. Or, the location of the file/code which controls the status of the LEDS. Any suggestions re the backlighting will be much appreciated.

CPU: Intel (R) Pentium (R) Silver N6000 @ 1.10GHz
RAM: 8GB Motherboard: rev5 / Magolor (Google)

I tried many Linux OS's, Mint, MX-23, etc. Mint used to go up to 80c on YouTube. MX was much better, but BookwormPup runs at 45c on YouTube, which is lower than the original Chrome OS. It is also very fast, & stable. I used firmware by "Mr Chromebox" to convert it.

Something to try.

Using the menu ->Setup ->Pupcontrol ->Hardware ->Input devices ->keyboard advanced configuration ->keyboard model

There are two models you could try using.

acer laptop

chromebook

They may work better or maybe make a specific switch on the keyboard to work to control lighting.

May need to restart X server or reboot to get change to be used.

Note:
BookwormPup64 is now at version 10.0.8
It has a lot of improvements that are not in 10.0.5

Best to do this by booting some other install of Puppy, so this install is not being used.
You could update to it by downloading the 10.0.8 ISO.
In Rox click on the ISO to show contents.
Replace all the files in the frugal install of v10.0.5 with the same files in the 10.0.8 ISO.
Now boot using it.

The old save should work OK.
Only stuff that is kernel specific will need to be reinstalled for the kernel in v10.0.8

Thanks for the suggestions.
I back up with "Macrium", so it doesn't matter if it goes pear shaped
I have a USB with FatDog 64 on it. I could use Roxy in that.

P.S. No luck with the LEDS.
I have another question. How can I install "Simplified Chinese" as a second language so that Google Translate can be used in the Browser?

Make a new topic for that new question.

It is really best to only talk about one issue or question in a topic.

No limit on number of topics.

Keep this topic about the original issue in the first post.

Please edit out the new question when you make a new topic for it.

Mzee wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2024 9:01 am

I have converted an Acer 317 17" Chromebook to "BookwormPup64 10.0.5", which is excellent. The only problem is lack of control of the Keyboard backlighting, which sometimes turns off... Any suggestions re the backlighting will be much appreciated.

@Mzee For the X11 desktop of BW64 you could try the following xset commands to enable/disable keyboard backlighting:

Turn on keyboard led backlight: xset led on
Turn off keyboard led backlight: xset led off

xset man page: https://linux.die.net/man/1/xset