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Razer Blade 15 Keybord backlight, not working (linux) [SOLVED]

  • 24 November 2019
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I'm running a linux disro (Arch), and I'm having an issue restarting my keyboard backlight. The laptop went to sleep and it froze when waking up and had to be shutdown. The keyboard backlight has been off since. The kdb_backlight directory is missing in /sys/class/leds as well, and I currently have tickets open in
NewbieCorner for this issue
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1874499#p1874499

and in openrazer's github for not being able to start polychromatic
https://github.com/openrazer/openrazer/issues/953

Does anyone have any ideas? Can I just redownload the kbd_backlight directory somewhere? Can openrazer and polychromatic fix this? Can I fix it from the command line?
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This fixed it.
https://github.com/openrazer/openrazer/ … ard-driver

Razer doesn't have the kbd_backight layout other keyboards have. This should probably be noted in the wiki
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Razer_Blade

code:
ls /sys/bus/hid/drivers/razerkbd/<version containing device_type, matrix files, etc>
echo -n "2" > matrix-effect-spectrum
cat matrix_brightness
0 # verifies led is turned off
echo -n "255" > matrix_brightness
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