Update on Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric)
Hi there,
just a quick update on screen brightness issue status, for the Vaio Y series.
The problem seems related to gnome-power-manager intel 915 driver... Kamal
Mostafa has released a path that should be already present in Ubuntu 11.10.
I don't know if this
bas, to remove the patch you have to remove the files that are in the
script subfolder of the patch from /etc/acpi/ and the files that are
in the events subfolder of the patch from /etc/acpi/events/
Then reboot your laptop and... patch is gone ;-)
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Screen brightness doesn't work on Vaio Y
Dear bas,
I really don't know when an official fix will be available.
I think that the problem is related to the change in the way fn keys are dealt
with: the new trend is to manage the events generated by the key pressure using
gnome power management (or something like that, I don't remember
Happy that works for both of you too :-)
I have noticed that sometimes (I think if keys are pressed many times
quickly), acpid stops working, and FN keys does not work anymore. No
time to investigate it now.
Cheers, and happy ubuntu! ;-)
Francesco
** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
I have the same problem with karmic on my sony series Y.
I can get the brightness level and change it with:
sudo setpci -s 00:02.0 F4.B
values are hexadecimal, and vary from 00 to FF.
I have prepared a couple of file to let ACPI catch FN5 and FN6, and a
couple of scripts to increase and decrease
