Numpad-touchpad Linux driver for Asus Zenbook

On linux there is no numericpad support for my laptop "out of the box", so I will try to implement it.

Screenshot (photo tbe)

LED Numpad integrated into the touchpad:

Features

• Switching LED on touchpad
• 5 levels of brightness
• So far only for model UM433D
• Use log instead of println :)
• Make numpad work (UM433D only)
• Support for a custom application starts on the upper left button press

Additional features - unimplemented!()

• implement the finding of the corresponding Touchpad event in /proc/bus/input/devices
• Implement for different Asus Zenbook models with/without % symbol
• systemd module

How to run (temporary instruction for tough guys)

Prerequisites

Install rustup:

Read "Installation" from 'The Rust Programming Language' book.

Install [ libevdev i2c-tools git ]

I hope you're using archlinux :-)

$ sudo pacman -S libevdev i2c-tools git

Load i2c-dev module

$ sudo modprobe i2c-dev

Clone

$ git clone https://github.com/khadievedem/asus-zenbook-numpad-driver-rs
$ cd ./asus-zenbook-numpad-driver-rs

Run

without Debug info

$ sudo cargo run *arg

with Debug info

$ sudo RUST_LOG=debug cargo run *arg

Add *arg - the path to your application binary that will run when you press on upper-left button

Thanks!

Thanks to Mohamed Badaoui for his Python implementation and inspiration.