newer laptop not supported : P750TM1- clevo

[francois]

here are the output asked for :

empereur@empereur-Sky-X4C ~/Téléchargements/tuxedocomputers-clevo-xsm-wmi-37c470bc8c3c/utility $ uname -a
Linux empereur-Sky-X4C 4.10.0-42-generic #46~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 4 15:57:59 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
empereur@empereur-Sky-X4C ~/Téléchargements/tuxedocomputers-clevo-xsm-wmi-37c470bc8c3c/utility $ sudo dmidecode > dmidecode.txt
empereur@empereur-Sky-X4C ~/Téléchargements/tuxedocomputers-clevo-xsm-wmi-37c470bc8c3c/utility $ dmesg | grep clevo
[    9.956148] clevo_xsm_wmi: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[    9.956166] clevo_xsm_wmi: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[    9.959188] input: Clevo Airplane-Mode Hotkey as /devices/platform/clevo_xsm_wmi/input/input16
[    9.959233] clevo_xsm_wmi: Polling thread started (PID: 491), polling at 5 Hz
[    9.961076] clevo_xsm_wmi clevo_xsm_wmi: hwmon_device_register() is deprecated. Please convert the driver to use hwmon_device_register_with_info().
empereur@empereur-Sky-X4C ~/Téléchargements/tuxedocomputers-clevo-xsm-wmi-37c470bc8c3c/utility $ 

the dmi output is on a text file (really long)

The GUI open fine, but the keyboard does not respond, always on blue no change.

Thanks a lot for working on those isue!

[Former user]

Hi I have the same barebone P750TM1 with the same problem. I see that its support is not listed in the code. So can somebody help me in finding how to add support for this barebone's keyboard in the code.

[Siddharth Pant]

I was able to solve this for me by adding the following after line 1414 in the clevo-xsm-wmi.c file:

{
  .ident = "Clevo P7XXTM1(-G)",
  .matches = {
    DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "EXIGO V3"),
  },
  .callback = clevo_xsm_dmi_matched,
  .driver_data = &kb_full_color_ops,
},

Correct product name is very crucial or module will load but will not find your system. You can find it by dmidecode command.

sudo dmidecode
# Or save the long output in some dummy file like below
sudo dmidecode > out.txt
# Or use less if you are unix savvy guy/gal ;)
sudo dmidecode | less
# search for "System Information" without the quotes and you will see a block like this with Product name value:
...
Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
        Manufacturer: AZOM
        Product Name: EXIGO V3
        Version: Not Applicable                  
        Serial Number: Not Applicable                  
        UUID: 505bfa80-bac2-0000-0000-000000000000
        Wake-up Type: Power Switch
        SKU Number: Not Applicable                  
        Family: Not Applicable
...

After this I built it by running:

cd modules && sudo make
sudo install -m644 clevo-xsm-wmi.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/extra
sudo depmod
sudo apt install libgtk2.0-dev
cd ../ui && sudo make installdependencies && sudo make install
sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/clevo-xsm-wmi.conf <<< 'options clevo-xsm-wmi kb_color=magenta,cyan,magenta kb_brightness=10'
sudo update-initramfs -uk all
# To run after reboot for customizing
sudo wmi-ui

As you can see I had to install libgtk2 dev libs for Ubuntu 19.10 or the UI was not coming up. But finally it works and I am happy.

Note to devs the current README.md file has become outdated and has errors in the commands. To anybody who wants to find more detailed doc follow this link:

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=287190

This issue discussion was also quite helpful

https://bitbucket.org/tuxedocomputers/clevo-xsm-wmi/issues/57/please-add-suport-to-clevo-p750tm1-g