[Docs request]: clarify usage of different AUR packages in README

[webketje]

As the developer of tuxedo-backlight-control I would really appreciate a section in the README mentioning a matrix of support per AUR package x models x configurations per model.

I originally developed the GUI for https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tuxedo-keyboard but I see this package has been flagged as out-of-date recently (however it still works a charm on my Clevo N150-ZU)? Will it still receive updates/ be recommended for older models or Linux kernels?

Now there is also https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tuxedo-keyboard-dkms and https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tuxedo-keyboard-ite and https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tuxedo-keyboard-ite-dkms

A lot of users are reporting issues that turn out to be missing SysFS installations, see a.o. webketje/tuxedo-backlight-control#23. I'm often at a loss to help out these users as I do provide an Arch Linux distro but do not have such an OS at my disposal for testing. It seems in this case the laptop model (Stellaris) uses a different interface (uniwill) than the one I created tuxedo-backlight-control for (clevo), and this interface does not work in the same way, specifically regarding SysFs

[StevenSeifried]

Regarding the tuxedo-keyboard AUR packages, since I'm the maintainer of those:
To avoid deletion for (potential) violating the naming guidelines, I renamed both packages (see pinned comment on AUR page of tuxedo-keyboard-dkms)

• tuxedo-keyboard was renamed to tuxedo-keyboard-dkms
• tuxedo-keyboard-ite was renamed to tuxedo-keyboard-ite-dkms

[webketje]

Thx for the input @StevenSeifried, so basically I should change the depends for tuxedo-backlight-control to tuxedo-keyboard-dkms instead of tuxedo-keyboard.

Still I noticed the SysFS integration in clevo_keyboard.h at line 633 is different from the one in uniwill_keyboard.h at line 626. The former outputs params to files at /sys/devices/platform/tuxedo_keyboard/<param>, while the latter seems not to do so.. Or am I misreading this and does the difference stem from AUR pkg format vs buiding from source?

[tuxedo-bot]

This repository will no longer get any updates as the code here is now part of tuxedo-drivers https://gitlab.com/tuxedocomputers/development/packages/tuxedo-drivers.

Please open a merge request or issue in the new project on GitLab if you contribution or bug report still applies.