I have a Lenovo Y720 that has a backlit keyboard. However, Lenovo choose to not have the light built into the actual firmware, but instead make it dependant on a program called Lenovo Nerve Sense, which is not open source and only runs on Windows. So far I used to boot up Windows on my PC, run the program, and then boot into Ubuntu. The keyboard light would stay as long as I never turned the laptop off (suspend is fine). This makes me think that the keyboard light runs in the RAM. This solution however is very tiring as I can never shut the laptop off or I would have to boot Windows up again. I know that a virtual machine does not have access to the hardware and therefore running the program in a VM does not work, the same thing goes for Wine.
So my question is, is there any possible way that I could actually run this program on Ubuntu so my keyboard light can turn on?
I have searched the web for 2 years, asked multiple questions and tried all of the solutions I could find, no solution works, as all of the solutions I have seen are for laptops that have the light built into the firmware and therefore a command like "xset led 3" works, but not for me.
Here is a list of what I have tried:
- https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Gaming-Laptops/Y720-linux-keyboard-backlight/td-p/3763992
- https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Ubuntu/Legion-Y720-Keyboard-backlight-not-working-on-Ubuntu-Linux/m-p/3744635
- https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Gaming-Laptops/Lenovo-Y720-keyboard-backlight-on-linux/td-p/4131177
- https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Gaming-Laptops/Lenovo-Y720-legion-laptop-ubuntu-keyboard-light/td-p/4067288
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- https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=240698
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Lenovo/comments/cc1r65/question_lenovo_y720_keyboard_backlight_linux/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/chhat3/turn_keyboard_backlight/
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