TUXEDO Software
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This article is a guide about installing TUXEDO's Linux drivers and Control Center on Gentoo Linux - software for vendor-specific TUXEDO hardware.
Kernel
First enable these Kernel options[1] to make the compiling of app-laptop/tuxedo-keyboard and sys-power/tuxedo-cc-wmi packages possible.
KERNEL Enable ACPI WMI in 5.15.32-gentoo-r1
[*] Networking Support ---> <*> RF switch subsystem support Device Drivers ---> Input device support ---> [*] Generic input layer (needed for keyboard, mouse, ...) {*} Hardware Monitoring support Graphics support ---> Backlight & LCD device support ---> [*] Lowlevel Backlight controls [*] X86 Platform Specific Device Drivers ---> [*] WMI
Drivers
root #
emerge --ask app-laptop/tuxedo-keyboard
These modules should be automatically loaded when booting:[2]
FILE
/etc/modules-load.d/tuxedo.conf
Load custom modules at boottuxedo_keyboard tuxedo_io clevo_acpi clevo_wmi
To configure the backlighting of the laptop's keyboard, edit /etc/modprobe.d/tuxedo_keyboard.conf. For other configuration options, see the tuxedo-keyboard README.
FILE
/etc/modprobe.d/tuxedo_keyboard.conf
Static white backlightingoptions tuxedo_keyboard mode=0 color_left=0xFFFFFF color_center=0xFFFFFF color_right=0xFFFFFF
Before rebooting, add this service:
root #
rc-update add tccd default
Control Center
TUXEDO Computers provides an application to control various hardware components. A binary package exists in the Gentoo tree.
root #
emerge --ask app-laptop/tuxedo-control-center-bin
See also
- TUXEDO Aura 15 (Gen2) — a configurable Linux notebook from 2022.