Re: Probably Off-topic Question...
Mark Smith wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:02:05AM -0700, Thunder from the hill wrote: > > > > > my vaio F-series used to sleep correctly under RH6.1. it now hangs > > > > > forever making the sleep mode much less useful. > > > i just push the sleep button. it used to work under RH6.1. under RH7.0 > > > it never wakes up. > > Well, this seems not to be right... > > Already any idea? > > i haven't had a chance to look at it. i'm not quite sure where to start > looking either. i suppose i could track down if there's any resource > still running? trying out different configurations. it's kinda annoying. > the battery drain on linux is pretty high so it would be useful to sleep > to save juice. not quite annoying enough yet to start debugging though. > too many other things above it on the sliding scale. Hmmm... Can you access objects on the penguin via network? Try using telnet, or better ssh, to be sure if it is a crash or a graphic error. Thunder --- Woah... I did a "cat /boot/vmlinuz >> /dev/audio" - and I think I heard god... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: Probably Off-topic Question...
Mark Smith wrote: On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:02:05AM -0700, Thunder from the hill wrote: my vaio F-series used to sleep correctly under RH6.1. it now hangs forever making the sleep mode much less useful. i just push the sleep button. it used to work under RH6.1. under RH7.0 it never wakes up. Well, this seems not to be right... Already any idea? i haven't had a chance to look at it. i'm not quite sure where to start looking either. i suppose i could track down if there's any resource still running? trying out different configurations. it's kinda annoying. the battery drain on linux is pretty high so it would be useful to sleep to save juice. not quite annoying enough yet to start debugging though. too many other things above it on the sliding scale. Hmmm... Can you access objects on the penguin via network? Try using telnet, or better ssh, to be sure if it is a crash or a graphic error. Thunder --- Woah... I did a "cat /boot/vmlinuz /dev/audio" - and I think I heard god... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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Mark Smith wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:14:19AM +0800, Steve Underwood wrote: > > > This is probably a user-land and/or undocumented thing, but I am not > > > certain where to get the correct info. > > > > > > Does anyone know how to get the screen brightness control to work on a > > > Sony Vaio N505VE? There seems to be some sort of proprietary hook to get > > > it to work that requires their install of Windows. (This is a problem as > > > it was removed immediatly after purchacing the laptop.) > > > > All the newer Vaios seem to have this problem. They rely on support from > > Windows to control the brightness, instead of doing it through the BIOS, > > like older machines. I don't know a solution. More annoyingly, they > > won't hibernate, as they rely on Windows Me or 2000 doing it for them. > > The APM hibernate in the BIOS seems to have gone. I have a Z505GAT, > > which I think is the Asian version of the model sold in the US as the > > Z505LE. I guess this will become the norm now none of the current > > versions of Windows require any hibernation support from the BIOS. The > > hibernate to swap patch for Linux really needs to get into the > > mainstream, and be more thoroughly exercised. > > if anyone finds a way of dimming the brightness make sure you post! > besides killing the battery, it also makes it hard to use in dark > places such as night flights. i feel as if i'm lighting up the > cabin in these cases. > > my vaio F-series used to sleep correctly under RH6.1. it now hangs > forever making the sleep mode much less useful. Maybe it has some problems with the way you send it to sleep. It could have changed through the times... Cheers! Thunder --- I did a "cat /boot/vmlinuz >> /dev/audio" - and I think I heard god... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: Probably Off-topic Question...
Steve Underwood wrote: > > Alan Olsen wrote: > > > > This is probably a user-land and/or undocumented thing, but I am not > > certain where to get the correct info. > > > > Does anyone know how to get the screen brightness control to work on a > > Sony Vaio N505VE? There seems to be some sort of proprietary hook to get > > it to work that requires their install of Windows. (This is a problem as > > it was removed immediatly after purchacing the laptop.) > > All the newer Vaios seem to have this problem. They rely on support from > Windows to control the brightness, instead of doing it through the BIOS, > like older machines. I don't know a solution. More annoyingly, they > won't hibernate, as they rely on Windows Me or 2000 doing it for them. > The APM hibernate in the BIOS seems to have gone. I have a Z505GAT, > which I think is the Asian version of the model sold in the US as the > Z505LE. I guess this will become the norm now none of the current > versions of Windows require any hibernation support from the BIOS. The > hibernate to swap patch for Linux really needs to get into the > mainstream, and be more thoroughly exercised. Couldn't it be possible to write a "hole" or such into the kernel's vaio driver - or even a /dev file - which can be used by some program to set screen brightness? Cheers! Thunder - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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Steve Underwood wrote: Alan Olsen wrote: This is probably a user-land and/or undocumented thing, but I am not certain where to get the correct info. Does anyone know how to get the screen brightness control to work on a Sony Vaio N505VE? There seems to be some sort of proprietary hook to get it to work that requires their install of Windows. (This is a problem as it was removed immediatly after purchacing the laptop.) All the newer Vaios seem to have this problem. They rely on support from Windows to control the brightness, instead of doing it through the BIOS, like older machines. I don't know a solution. More annoyingly, they won't hibernate, as they rely on Windows Me or 2000 doing it for them. The APM hibernate in the BIOS seems to have gone. I have a Z505GAT, which I think is the Asian version of the model sold in the US as the Z505LE. I guess this will become the norm now none of the current versions of Windows require any hibernation support from the BIOS. The hibernate to swap patch for Linux really needs to get into the mainstream, and be more thoroughly exercised. Couldn't it be possible to write a "hole" or such into the kernel's vaio driver - or even a /dev file - which can be used by some program to set screen brightness? Cheers! Thunder - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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Mark Smith wrote: On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:14:19AM +0800, Steve Underwood wrote: This is probably a user-land and/or undocumented thing, but I am not certain where to get the correct info. Does anyone know how to get the screen brightness control to work on a Sony Vaio N505VE? There seems to be some sort of proprietary hook to get it to work that requires their install of Windows. (This is a problem as it was removed immediatly after purchacing the laptop.) All the newer Vaios seem to have this problem. They rely on support from Windows to control the brightness, instead of doing it through the BIOS, like older machines. I don't know a solution. More annoyingly, they won't hibernate, as they rely on Windows Me or 2000 doing it for them. The APM hibernate in the BIOS seems to have gone. I have a Z505GAT, which I think is the Asian version of the model sold in the US as the Z505LE. I guess this will become the norm now none of the current versions of Windows require any hibernation support from the BIOS. The hibernate to swap patch for Linux really needs to get into the mainstream, and be more thoroughly exercised. if anyone finds a way of dimming the brightness make sure you post! besides killing the battery, it also makes it hard to use in dark places such as night flights. i feel as if i'm lighting up the cabin in these cases. my vaio F-series used to sleep correctly under RH6.1. it now hangs forever making the sleep mode much less useful. Maybe it has some problems with the way you send it to sleep. It could have changed through the times... Cheers! Thunder --- I did a "cat /boot/vmlinuz /dev/audio" - and I think I heard god... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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> > http://samba.org/picturebook > > > > should have it > > Ah, Mr Cox. You are a truly warm and wonderful human being. I can > Thank Tridge not me, all I had to do was ask him the URL 8) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > if anyone finds a way of dimming the brightness make sure you post! > > besides killing the battery, it also makes it hard to use in dark > > places such as night flights. i feel as if i'm lighting up the > > cabin in these cases. > > http://samba.org/picturebook > > should have it Ah, Mr Cox. You are a truly warm and wonderful human being. I can confirm the setbrightness utility at the above URL not only works for a picturebook. It works for a Z505GAT as well. That should mean it is OK for a Z505LE in the US, too. The LE and GAT are significantly different from older Vaios. The older ones all seem to use Neomagic video controllers. These new models, and the new Crusoe picturebook, use ATI Rage mobility. There might, therefore, be a number of subtle differences from the behaviour of older models. Now I just need ACPI hibernate to swap space, and a Gnome utility to control this brightness thingy in my control panel! Oh, and of course that Conexant modem port might be useful sometimes, if it worked! Regards, Steve - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: Probably Off-topic Question...
> if anyone finds a way of dimming the brightness make sure you post! > besides killing the battery, it also makes it hard to use in dark > places such as night flights. i feel as if i'm lighting up the > cabin in these cases. http://samba.org/picturebook should have it - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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You are correct, this is supposed to be handled by ACPI. However, this has yet to be implemented in Linux's ACPI support. Check back in 6 months. :) Regards -- Andy > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 2:52 PM > To: Mark Smith > Cc: Steven Ellmore; Steve Underwood; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Probably Off-topic Question... > Importance: High > > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:38:54PM -0500, Mark Smith wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:40:14PM +, Steven Ellmore wrote: > > > My VAIO Z505HS brightness control works under Linux. > > > > > > Shift + Fn + Brightness (F5) dims > > > Fn + Brightness brightens > [...] > > none of these things change my brightness one way or the other. > > in particular, which part of the OS would be responsible for > > watching these keystrokes and making the appropriate changes? > > With the Z505H/J series, this is handled entirely by the BIOS > and the OS has > no part of it. I'm not sure about the L's, but they're > otherwise fairly > similar to the H/J's. (I have absolutely no idea about other > lines like the > picturebooks, of course, as the different lines from Sony are > effectively > completely unrelated.) > > > others have told me about this keystroke. someone had suggested > > that this works differently on my system because i have a newer > > bios? > > This is possible. I don't know why they would change this, > unless it was some > requirement of propertly integrating the newer Windows > versions, which is > possible. In this case, my guess is that it's probably > exposed via ACPI or > something similar. Any ACPI folks got thoughts on this as a > possibility (and > how one might find out)? I have to admit I haven't played > with it much. > > -alex > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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Nono it can't be the BIOS coz then it won't work under Losedoze (old vers, e.g. Wfw 3.11 with Win32s). AFAIK it's the "keyboard controller" (i.e. the chipset) For my Scenic Mobile 510 everything works fine under DOS, NT 5 (though _this_ Windoze _has_ advanced features) and Linnux. mirabilos -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12+custom(^=href;C-style-comments) GO/S dx@ s--: a---> C++ UL P--- L++$(-^lang) E/joe W+(++) N? o K? w-(+$) O+>+++ M-- V- PS+++@ PE(--) Y+ PGP t+ 5? X+ R+ !tv! b* DI- D+ G(>++) e(^age) h! r(-) y--(!y+) /* lang=NASM, GW-BASIC, C */ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: Probably Off-topic Question...
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:38:54PM -0500, Mark Smith wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:40:14PM +, Steven Ellmore wrote: > > My VAIO Z505HS brightness control works under Linux. > > > > Shift + Fn + Brightness (F5) dims > > Fn + Brightness brightens [...] > none of these things change my brightness one way or the other. > in particular, which part of the OS would be responsible for > watching these keystrokes and making the appropriate changes? With the Z505H/J series, this is handled entirely by the BIOS and the OS has no part of it. I'm not sure about the L's, but they're otherwise fairly similar to the H/J's. (I have absolutely no idea about other lines like the picturebooks, of course, as the different lines from Sony are effectively completely unrelated.) > others have told me about this keystroke. someone had suggested > that this works differently on my system because i have a newer > bios? This is possible. I don't know why they would change this, unless it was some requirement of propertly integrating the newer Windows versions, which is possible. In this case, my guess is that it's probably exposed via ACPI or something similar. Any ACPI folks got thoughts on this as a possibility (and how one might find out)? I have to admit I haven't played with it much. -alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: Probably Off-topic Question...
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:40:14PM +, Steven Ellmore wrote: > My VAIO Z505HS brightness control works under Linux. > > Shift + Fn + Brightness (F5) dims > Fn + Brightness brightens > > If it makes a difference I'm using Left Shift and Left Fn and as you > might expect I'm holding both of those down and then tapping F5 the > required number of times. none of these things change my brightness one way or the other. in particular, which part of the OS would be responsible for watching these keystrokes and making the appropriate changes? others have told me about this keystroke. someone had suggested that this works differently on my system because i have a newer bios? -- Mark Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: Probably Off-topic Question...
My VAIO Z505HS brightness control works under Linux. Shift + Fn + Brightness (F5) dims Fn + Brightness brightens If it makes a difference I'm using Left Shift and Left Fn and as you might expect I'm holding both of those down and then tapping F5 the required number of times. -Steve Ellmore - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:14:19AM +0800, Steve Underwood wrote: > > This is probably a user-land and/or undocumented thing, but I am not > > certain where to get the correct info. > > > > Does anyone know how to get the screen brightness control to work on a > > Sony Vaio N505VE? There seems to be some sort of proprietary hook to get > > it to work that requires their install of Windows. (This is a problem as > > it was removed immediatly after purchacing the laptop.) > > All the newer Vaios seem to have this problem. They rely on support from > Windows to control the brightness, instead of doing it through the BIOS, > like older machines. I don't know a solution. More annoyingly, they > won't hibernate, as they rely on Windows Me or 2000 doing it for them. > The APM hibernate in the BIOS seems to have gone. I have a Z505GAT, > which I think is the Asian version of the model sold in the US as the > Z505LE. I guess this will become the norm now none of the current > versions of Windows require any hibernation support from the BIOS. The > hibernate to swap patch for Linux really needs to get into the > mainstream, and be more thoroughly exercised. if anyone finds a way of dimming the brightness make sure you post! besides killing the battery, it also makes it hard to use in dark places such as night flights. i feel as if i'm lighting up the cabin in these cases. my vaio F-series used to sleep correctly under RH6.1. it now hangs forever making the sleep mode much less useful. -- Mark Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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Alan Olsen wrote: > > This is probably a user-land and/or undocumented thing, but I am not > certain where to get the correct info. > > Does anyone know how to get the screen brightness control to work on a > Sony Vaio N505VE? There seems to be some sort of proprietary hook to get > it to work that requires their install of Windows. (This is a problem as > it was removed immediatly after purchacing the laptop.) All the newer Vaios seem to have this problem. They rely on support from Windows to control the brightness, instead of doing it through the BIOS, like older machines. I don't know a solution. More annoyingly, they won't hibernate, as they rely on Windows Me or 2000 doing it for them. The APM hibernate in the BIOS seems to have gone. I have a Z505GAT, which I think is the Asian version of the model sold in the US as the Z505LE. I guess this will become the norm now none of the current versions of Windows require any hibernation support from the BIOS. The hibernate to swap patch for Linux really needs to get into the mainstream, and be more thoroughly exercised. > And as for code comments, they should be written in Ancient Greek with > code examples taken from APL and BCPL and written using the ISO character > set for Sanscrit. (To avoid complaints of swear words appearing in them > by the morally clenched.) If they aren't in ASCII, they don't follow the C standard. Regards, Steve - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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Alan Olsen wrote: This is probably a user-land and/or undocumented thing, but I am not certain where to get the correct info. Does anyone know how to get the screen brightness control to work on a Sony Vaio N505VE? There seems to be some sort of proprietary hook to get it to work that requires their install of Windows. (This is a problem as it was removed immediatly after purchacing the laptop.) All the newer Vaios seem to have this problem. They rely on support from Windows to control the brightness, instead of doing it through the BIOS, like older machines. I don't know a solution. More annoyingly, they won't hibernate, as they rely on Windows Me or 2000 doing it for them. The APM hibernate in the BIOS seems to have gone. I have a Z505GAT, which I think is the Asian version of the model sold in the US as the Z505LE. I guess this will become the norm now none of the current versions of Windows require any hibernation support from the BIOS. The hibernate to swap patch for Linux really needs to get into the mainstream, and be more thoroughly exercised. And as for code comments, they should be written in Ancient Greek with code examples taken from APL and BCPL and written using the ISO character set for Sanscrit. (To avoid complaints of swear words appearing in them by the morally clenched.) If they aren't in ASCII, they don't follow the C standard. Regards, Steve - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:14:19AM +0800, Steve Underwood wrote: This is probably a user-land and/or undocumented thing, but I am not certain where to get the correct info. Does anyone know how to get the screen brightness control to work on a Sony Vaio N505VE? There seems to be some sort of proprietary hook to get it to work that requires their install of Windows. (This is a problem as it was removed immediatly after purchacing the laptop.) All the newer Vaios seem to have this problem. They rely on support from Windows to control the brightness, instead of doing it through the BIOS, like older machines. I don't know a solution. More annoyingly, they won't hibernate, as they rely on Windows Me or 2000 doing it for them. The APM hibernate in the BIOS seems to have gone. I have a Z505GAT, which I think is the Asian version of the model sold in the US as the Z505LE. I guess this will become the norm now none of the current versions of Windows require any hibernation support from the BIOS. The hibernate to swap patch for Linux really needs to get into the mainstream, and be more thoroughly exercised. if anyone finds a way of dimming the brightness make sure you post! besides killing the battery, it also makes it hard to use in dark places such as night flights. i feel as if i'm lighting up the cabin in these cases. my vaio F-series used to sleep correctly under RH6.1. it now hangs forever making the sleep mode much less useful. -- Mark Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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My VAIO Z505HS brightness control works under Linux. Shift + Fn + Brightness (F5) dims Fn + Brightness brightens If it makes a difference I'm using Left Shift and Left Fn and as you might expect I'm holding both of those down and then tapping F5 the required number of times. -Steve Ellmore - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:40:14PM +, Steven Ellmore wrote: My VAIO Z505HS brightness control works under Linux. Shift + Fn + Brightness (F5) dims Fn + Brightness brightens If it makes a difference I'm using Left Shift and Left Fn and as you might expect I'm holding both of those down and then tapping F5 the required number of times. none of these things change my brightness one way or the other. in particular, which part of the OS would be responsible for watching these keystrokes and making the appropriate changes? others have told me about this keystroke. someone had suggested that this works differently on my system because i have a newer bios? -- Mark Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:38:54PM -0500, Mark Smith wrote: On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:40:14PM +, Steven Ellmore wrote: My VAIO Z505HS brightness control works under Linux. Shift + Fn + Brightness (F5) dims Fn + Brightness brightens [...] none of these things change my brightness one way or the other. in particular, which part of the OS would be responsible for watching these keystrokes and making the appropriate changes? With the Z505H/J series, this is handled entirely by the BIOS and the OS has no part of it. I'm not sure about the L's, but they're otherwise fairly similar to the H/J's. (I have absolutely no idea about other lines like the picturebooks, of course, as the different lines from Sony are effectively completely unrelated.) others have told me about this keystroke. someone had suggested that this works differently on my system because i have a newer bios? This is possible. I don't know why they would change this, unless it was some requirement of propertly integrating the newer Windows versions, which is possible. In this case, my guess is that it's probably exposed via ACPI or something similar. Any ACPI folks got thoughts on this as a possibility (and how one might find out)? I have to admit I haven't played with it much. -alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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You are correct, this is supposed to be handled by ACPI. However, this has yet to be implemented in Linux's ACPI support. Check back in 6 months. :) Regards -- Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 2:52 PM To: Mark Smith Cc: Steven Ellmore; Steve Underwood; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Probably Off-topic Question... Importance: High On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:38:54PM -0500, Mark Smith wrote: On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:40:14PM +, Steven Ellmore wrote: My VAIO Z505HS brightness control works under Linux. Shift + Fn + Brightness (F5) dims Fn + Brightness brightens [...] none of these things change my brightness one way or the other. in particular, which part of the OS would be responsible for watching these keystrokes and making the appropriate changes? With the Z505H/J series, this is handled entirely by the BIOS and the OS has no part of it. I'm not sure about the L's, but they're otherwise fairly similar to the H/J's. (I have absolutely no idea about other lines like the picturebooks, of course, as the different lines from Sony are effectively completely unrelated.) others have told me about this keystroke. someone had suggested that this works differently on my system because i have a newer bios? This is possible. I don't know why they would change this, unless it was some requirement of propertly integrating the newer Windows versions, which is possible. In this case, my guess is that it's probably exposed via ACPI or something similar. Any ACPI folks got thoughts on this as a possibility (and how one might find out)? I have to admit I haven't played with it much. -alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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if anyone finds a way of dimming the brightness make sure you post! besides killing the battery, it also makes it hard to use in dark places such as night flights. i feel as if i'm lighting up the cabin in these cases. http://samba.org/picturebook should have it - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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Alan Cox wrote: if anyone finds a way of dimming the brightness make sure you post! besides killing the battery, it also makes it hard to use in dark places such as night flights. i feel as if i'm lighting up the cabin in these cases. http://samba.org/picturebook should have it Ah, Mr Cox. You are a truly warm and wonderful human being. I can confirm the setbrightness utility at the above URL not only works for a picturebook. It works for a Z505GAT as well. That should mean it is OK for a Z505LE in the US, too. The LE and GAT are significantly different from older Vaios. The older ones all seem to use Neomagic video controllers. These new models, and the new Crusoe picturebook, use ATI Rage mobility. There might, therefore, be a number of subtle differences from the behaviour of older models. Now I just need ACPI hibernate to swap space, and a Gnome utility to control this brightness thingy in my control panel! Oh, and of course that Conexant modem port might be useful sometimes, if it worked! Regards, Steve - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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http://samba.org/picturebook should have it Ah, Mr Cox. You are a truly warm and wonderful human being. I can Thank Tridge not me, all I had to do was ask him the URL 8) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Alan Olsen wrote: > BTW, the Yamaha sound chip in the Vaio is supported under Alsa. You might > ask them what they did to get it to work, so it can be included in the > stock kernel. (Or maybe it already has and I have just not been looking.) The ymf_pci driver in any recent kernel works just fine on the yamaha in the vaio's. That is, unless you want to record. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: Probably Off-topic Question...
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Alan Olsen wrote: BTW, the Yamaha sound chip in the Vaio is supported under Alsa. You might ask them what they did to get it to work, so it can be included in the stock kernel. (Or maybe it already has and I have just not been looking.) The ymf_pci driver in any recent kernel works just fine on the yamaha in the vaio's. That is, unless you want to record. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
