On Wednesday 11 April 2007, Khoa Ton wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings all; >> >> I just bought and installed one of those Saitek illuminated keyboards, >> and it shows up in dmesg as: >> >> usb 3-3.3: new low speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 10 >> usb 3-3.3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice >> input: Chicony Saitek Eclipse II Keyboard as /class/input/input5 >> input: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [Chicony Saitek Eclipse II Keyboard] on >> usb-0000:00:02.2-3.3 >> input: Chicony Saitek Eclipse II Keyboard as /class/input/input6 >> input,hiddev96: USB HID v1.11 Device [Chicony Saitek Eclipse II >> Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:02.2-3.3 >> >> The default background illumination is blue, but it apparently takes a >> winderz utility of some kind to make it switch to green or red. Is >> there such a utility for linux yet? I just checked the KDE control >> panel and it knows nothing about this. > >I have this keyboard running with a USB KVM switch connected to a > Windows Vista and FC5 computers. Works great, nice feel, and the > lighting really helps in the dark. I didn't know that you can control > the illumination in software, and wouldn't want to add more always on > utilities in Windows to do so anyway. The illumination can be manually > changed with a rocker switch in the upper right corner of the keyboard. > It's labeled with a half white half black circle, to the right of the > mute icon. You can also use the light bulb knob located in the same > vicinity to control the illumination intensity. > >Also, the different illuminations are are dark, blue, red, and > blue+red=purple. > http://techgage.com/article/saitek_eclipse_ii_illuminated_keyboard/ > >Khoa Thanks. I'd managed to find that button after someone else said there might be one, so I feel sorta stupid. That's not what I'd call 'clearly marked', but when I got around to looking at the booklet again, it did have a pointer to it, but I must have assumed it was pointing at the brightness knob or something equally dumb. One of those 'Duh' moments... -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) not properly grounded, please bury computer
