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TUXEDO Control Center UI

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 to make the compiling of app-laptop/tuxedo-keyboard and sys-power/tuxedo-cc-wmi packages possible.

KERNEL Enable ACPI WMI in 6.1.31-gentoo

[*] 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:

FILE /etc/modules-load.d/tuxedo.confLoad custom modules at boot

tuxedo_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.confStatic white backlighting

options tuxedo_keyboard mode=0 color_left=0xFFFFFF color_center=0xFFFFFF color_right=0xFFFFFF

It is also possible to configure the keyboard via the TUXEDO Control Center. But effects, e. g. “Wave”, are not configurable in the UI yet.

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.