how to switch off all the lights

[amwink]

My laptop (ASUS ROG Strix Scar II GL504GW-ES012T according to the order, keyboard 0xb05-0x1866 according to hardinfo) running Ubuntu 18.04, kernel 5.3.0-45, is mainly for work use so I would like to turn the backlight and the ROG symbol on the lid off altogether.

After downloading and compiling rogauracore I ran $ rogauracore black and $ rogauracore single_static 000000 respectively (both followed by a reboot).

Unfortunately that leaves the backlight and the symbol in slowly varying 'rainbow' mode. According to the readme.md file this model would be supported so I had high expectations. Should I have done something differently or does rogauracore not work for this model (GW-ES012T)?

[CarwynNelson]

I believe I have the same laptop model as you. I have been trying to get this working for quite a while now, and I recently discovered that rogauracore starts working if I boot into windows and then back into my ubuntu partition.

I'm not sure if this is of any help.

Also, if I do a full reboot back into linux it no longer works. Very strange.

[MidhunSureshR]

Hello,

I see a lot of people having difficulty getting their backlight features working. If you are interested in reversing the backlight yourself using wireshark and viewing the actual URB packets that are being issued, you should review my powerpoint presentation (as a slideshow) from my original project repo.

Additionally the steps that I used to find the device id is mentioned here.