Framework 16: strange behavior from input modules.

[leyvi]

I have two major problems, maybe related, but I really don't know:

1. If I set my keyboard backlight to 100% (using the built-in shortcut, <Fn+Space>), the keyboard will begin connecting and disconnecting erratically, then stop working altogether (until reboot). dmesg shows it disconnecting and reconnecting as expected from behavior. This seemed like a good thing to contact Framework about (smells like firmware to me), which is what I've done.
2. I cannot control the backlight on the keyboard, nor the numpad. I have installed app-laptop/framework-laptop-kmod and app-laptop/framework_tool, and neither the sysfs interface provided by the former, nor the command-line interface provided by the latter, work at all. They can't even read the brightness values. For some reason, framework_tool can control the backlight on the power button/fingerprint sensor just fine.

[Zucca]

I dont't own a framework laptop, but for the brightness control you might need to enable some other _LEDS options to your kernel.
There are quite many of those:

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zfgrep _LEDS /proc/config.gz

I would assume the default distribution kernel will have the support.

Fastest and easiest way would be to quickly install gentoo-kernel-bin or vanilla-kernel-bin and see if if the issues disappear. If so, you should be able to fix the problem by adjusting kernel configs.

You stated, that dmesg shows the keyboard disconnecting (normally) and reconnecting right after. You didn't see any errors? Only disconnect+connect messages?

Also make sure your kernel has loaded the module(s) from app-laptop/framework-laptop-kmod (use lsmod to see).

[leyvi]

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You stated, that dmesg shows the keyboard disconnecting (normally) and reconnecting right after. You didn't see any errors? Only disconnect+connect messages?

Also make sure your kernel has loaded the module(s) from app-laptop/framework-laptop-kmod (use lsmod to see).
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Yes, there were some errors involving "device won't accept address" or something. I can check tomorrow night. Also, the module was definitely loaded, I checked.