# Linux keyboard backlight support

**URL:** https://community.frame.work/t/linux-keyboard-backlight-support/59158
**Category:** Framework Laptop 16
**Tags:** framework-laptop-16-amd-7040
**Created:** [October 16, 2024, 5:59pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/linux-keyboard-backlight-support/59158 "2024-10-16T17:59:14Z")
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### Author: ![DHowett](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/dhowett/32/1990_2.png) [@DHowett](https://community.frame.work/u/DHowett)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2024, 6:01pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/linux-keyboard-backlight-support/59158/2 "2024-10-16T18:01:25Z")

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> [@Harry\_ten\_Berge](#):
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> After doing some searching I found the kernel support developed by @DHowett. Great effort, and it almost works 😉

Alas! It doesn’t work for the Framework Laptop 16, nor is it likely to. The keyboard is a separate device whose parameters are not controlled by the embedded controller (which my driver and Thomas Weißschuh’s drivers focus on.)

There are likely to be other efforts to surface QMK- and VIA-powered keyboards’ backlights through sysfs.

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