Thread: big news regarding Fremantle MCE
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shawnjefferson is offline shawnjefferson
2014-01-25 , 08:20
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#38
Now that we have source for MCE, does this change in any way:

(Though the LP5523 chip has 3 engines meant to control R, G, and B, the mce program exlusively uses engine3 for kbd backlight and so doesn't support pattern definitions for engine3. mce is closed source and thus this can't be fixed in any reasonable way. If mce were open, an alternative compatible format was possible:
from:
http://wiki.maemo.org/LED_patterns

I admit to not really understanding exactly what is mean by "engines" and how the n900 hardware uses the keyboard LEDs with the LED hardware. Looking at the MCE source though, it appears the keyboard LED pattern is hardcoded... and there are 6 LEDs? Some hacking on MCE could give us control over those LEDs individually?