PH717 with linux keyboard animation does not stop

krom

Hello there.
I'm using only linux on this laptop.
After some work, everything works fine with Ubuntu 19.10
- self kernel build needed for eth driver
- original Nvidia drivers are for dual display
- one hidden BIOS setting needed to disable RAID on mSATA disks   
Anyway that annoying keyboard animation can't be disabled in BIOS.  

Here is a short script to disable it:

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#!/usr/bin/perl

use USB::LibUSB;

my $ctx = USB::LibUSB->init();

my $handle = $ctx->open_device_with_vid_pid(0x0d62,0x9a1a);

sub hsend {

 my @data=@_;

 my $i,$sum=0,$dp;

 

 for($i=0;$i<7;$i++){

  printf "%02x ",$data[$i];

  $sum+=$data[$i];  

 }

 $sum=(0xff - $sum) % 0x100;

 printf "sum=%02x\n",$sum;

 $data[7]=$sum;

 $dp=pack("c*",@data);

 print unpack('H*',$dp),"\n";;

 

 $handle->control_transfer_write(0x21,9,0x0300,0x0003,$dp, 1000);

}

print "off\n";

hsend(8,0,0,0,0,0,0);

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One could experiment with third value in hsend, there are more stupid animations.
A protocol for setting individual key light is still to be dicoverd.

PS: This is not the question, but maybe it could be usefull for for somebody.