With this program you can make works on linux your Steelseries keyboard. You can change colors as if the official MSI software, KLM (Keyboar Led Manager) is involved.
It's simple firs tclone the repository with
$ git clone https://github.com/gokuhs/MSI_GT_GE_Led_Enabler
Now in a terminal type:
$ make
Now install
$ sudo make install
To uninstall simple type this in a terminal
$ sudo make unisntall
This program uses 4 arguments:
1º Mode:
- Gaming: Only turn on the left leds
- Normal: Turn all leds on
2º Color Area 1:
- Sets the color of the area 1 of the keyboard * (see supported color modes)
3º Color Area 2:
- Sets the color of the area 2 of the keyboard * (see supported color modes)
4º Color Area 3:
- Sets the color of the area 3 of the keyboard * (see supported color modes)
5º Light level:
- Establish the intensity level of the leds (From 0 to 4)
Example of use:
./msiledenabler -mode normal -color1 blue -color2 green -color3 red -level 3
The avaliable colors for you keyboard are black, red, orange, yellow, green, sky, blue, purple and white.
This program only tested in a MSI GT70 0NC
This is a proof of concept to get MSI keyboard light working on unix and OSX (hackintosh). It works on a MSI GT60 so I think this can activate backlight led keyboard on series GT and GE that have the same keyboard by steelseries. The attached source is for compile on Mac if you want to compile on Unix I attached in https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5977601/MSI_GT_GE_Led_Enabler-master-unix.tar.gz the modifications needed. Also you need to get dependencies:
Thanks to Signal11 for their HIDAPI. Thanks to PaNaVTEC for the original Source Code ( https://github.com/PaNaVTEC/MSI_GT_GE_Led_Enabler )