feat: Add FA401WU supports

[scardracs]

Closes: #151
Signed-off-by: Marco Scardovi scardracs@disroot.org

[miche-egg564]

i tried using this early using the help of claude to manually install it and here is what claude said after finishing "aura_support.ron fix landed and asusd now matches FA401WU correctly, but keyboard still doesn't light up — kbd_rgb_state file still missing at the kernel level." Maybe this can be helpful thank you so much for helping me so far

[scardracs]

i tried using this early using the help of claude to manually install it and here is what claude said after finishing "aura_support.ron fix landed and asusd now matches FA401WU correctly, but keyboard still doesn't light up — kbd_rgb_state file still missing at the kernel level." Maybe this can be helpful thank you so much for helping me so far

That's because https://lore.kernel.org/platform-driver-x86/20260621090230.41249-2-scardracs@disroot.org/ has been merged into ilpo's repo only and not into main kernel. You have to wait for about another week or two to see it into the kernel

[Ghoul4500]

i tried using this early using the help of claude to manually install it and here is what claude said after finishing "aura_support.ron fix landed and asusd now matches FA401WU correctly, but keyboard still doesn't light up — kbd_rgb_state file still missing at the kernel level." Maybe this can be helpful thank you so much for helping me so far

That's because https://lore.kernel.org/platform-driver-x86/20260621090230.41249-2-scardracs@disroot.org/ has been merged into ilpo's repo only and not into main kernel. You have to wait for about another week or two to see it into the kernel

You have tested this with the patch on this model? also pls reword the commit with Feat: {message} while ur at it. Thanks

[scardracs]

i tried using this early using the help of claude to manually install it and here is what claude said after finishing "aura_support.ron fix landed and asusd now matches FA401WU correctly, but keyboard still doesn't light up — kbd_rgb_state file still missing at the kernel level." Maybe this can be helpful thank you so much for helping me so far

That's because https://lore.kernel.org/platform-driver-x86/20260621090230.41249-2-scardracs@disroot.org/ has been merged into ilpo's repo only and not into main kernel. You have to wait for about another week or two to see it into the kernel

You have tested this with the patch on this model? also pls reword the commit with Feat: {message} while ur at it. Thanks

Done. I need @miche-egg564 to test both this patch and lore to be sure it works as expected 'cause I don't have this model

[miche-egg564]

Tested the latest push on real FA401WU hardware. aura_support.ron fix confirmed working — logs show Matched to FA401WU correctly. Keyboard backlight still doesn't turn on, as expected, since kbd_rgb_state isn't in my running kernel yet (matches what you said re: the lore.kernel.org patch only being in ilpo's tree so far). Will retest once that kernel patch lands in mainline / gets into Fedora's kernel.

[Ghoul4500]

I'm more concerned here about the fact that the layout_name in the ron file is untested (can't be without the kernel patch). In my experience having the wrong layout_name sometimes does weird things. I looked up images of these 2 models and it seems the FA506 is an A15 with a numpad whhile this target model is an A14 without a numpad. I'm quite certain that is not the right layout_name. I think ga401q may be more appropriate, but I want this to be tested on a working kernel

[miche-egg564]

is there anyway i can test it without building a kernelt because that is not something i am capable of

maybe send an image of my keyboards layout or anything else (sorry i take so long to respond)

[scardracs]

The only way is for you to compile the kernel or wait for my commit to be merged into a RC kernel release (probably it will go to kernel 7.3 so you'll have to wait at least another month or 2)

[miche-egg564]

ok ill wait i supose