On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 at 00:11, Luke D. Jones [off-list ref] wrote:

On 26/03/25 07:45, Antheas Kapenekakis wrote:

quoted

Apply the RGB quirk to the QOG Ally units to enable basic RGB support.

Reviewed-by: Luke D. Jones <luke@ljones.dev>
Signed-off-by: Antheas Kapenekakis <lkml@antheas.dev>
---
  drivers/hid/hid-asus.c | 4 ++--
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-asus.c b/drivers/hid/hid-asus.c
index c135c9ff87b74..fa8ec237efe26 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-asus.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-asus.c

@@ -1424,10 +1424,10 @@ static const struct hid_device_id asus_devices[] = {
        QUIRK_USE_KBD_BACKLIGHT | QUIRK_ROG_NKEY_KEYBOARD | QUIRK_ROG_NKEY_RGB },
      { HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_ASUSTEK,
          USB_DEVICE_ID_ASUSTEK_ROG_NKEY_ALLY),
-       QUIRK_USE_KBD_BACKLIGHT | QUIRK_ROG_NKEY_KEYBOARD },
+       QUIRK_USE_KBD_BACKLIGHT | QUIRK_ROG_NKEY_KEYBOARD | QUIRK_ROG_NKEY_RGB },
      { HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_ASUSTEK,
          USB_DEVICE_ID_ASUSTEK_ROG_NKEY_ALLY_X),
-       QUIRK_USE_KBD_BACKLIGHT | QUIRK_ROG_NKEY_KEYBOARD },
+       QUIRK_USE_KBD_BACKLIGHT | QUIRK_ROG_NKEY_KEYBOARD | QUIRK_ROG_NKEY_RGB },
      { HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_ASUSTEK,
          USB_DEVICE_ID_ASUSTEK_ROG_CLAYMORE_II_KEYBOARD),
        QUIRK_ROG_CLAYMORE_II_KEYBOARD },

Hi Antheas,

I have some good news for you, ASUS got back to me, there *is* a way to
get the feature level of a keyboard.

## 2.2. Configuration command

In order to confirm what functions are the USB device supported, host
retrieves the
configuration information by feature report method. Therefore, the
firmware has to
return the data (byte 0x06~) to the host.

### 2.2.1. Set feature

| Byte 0    | Byte 1    | Byte 2   | Byte 3   | Byte 4     | Byte 5  |
|-----------|-----------|----------|----------|------------|---------|
| Report ID | OP code   | Addr_L   | Addr_H   | Read ROM   | Length  |
| Report ID | 0x05      | 0x20     | 0x31     | 0x00       | 0x08    |

### 2.2.2. Get feature

| Byte 0    | Byte 1    | Byte 2   | Byte 3   | Byte 4     | Byte 5  |
|-----------|-----------|----------|----------|------------|---------|
| Report ID | 0x05      | 0x20     | 0x31     | 0x00       | 0x08    |

**Byte 6**
- 0x00: KB, 1-zone with single color

Nice find. The asus-hid driver already implements this and checks for
0x00 to bail the backlight.

So that check should be removed as it does not work with single color
keyboards and instead checked for 2,3,4 to enable RGB.

This also means removing the RGB check and getting global support in one go.

Antheas

- 0x01: KB, QWERASD-partition
- 0x02: KB, 4-zone with RGB
- 0x03: KB, Per-key with RGB
- 0x04: KB, 1-zone with RGB
- Other: reserved

**Byte 7(keyboard language)**
- 0x01: US
- 0x02: UK
- 0x03: JP
- Other: reserved

I've not done anything with this myself yet, circumstances last week
weren't great for me. If you implement this in driver I will ensure I
get it tested as I have both single colour and rgb laptops.

What i *do* know is:

- 0x00: KB, 1-zone with single color
- 0x01: KB, QWERASD-partition
These can be standard kb_backlight

- 0x02: KB, 4-zone with RGB
- 0x03: KB, Per-key with RGB
- 0x04: KB, 1-zone with RGB
These work with the regular EC-mode RGB command for static/solid colour
and you don't need to worry about zone/per-key. It would be good to
document those as defines or enum or something for future.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Luke.