Thanks but I tried nvclock already. Even the latest CVS version says it doesn´t support the hardware, unfortunately...
If someone has a solution for the Z13 I'd love to hear about it... Thanks On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Peter Fern <[email protected]> wrote: > You should be able to use nvclock to change brightness. The following is > what I use, but I don't ever use the Intel card, so to make it generic, > you'd want to do some sort of detection in the shell script, depending on > how you're doing your switching. > > > # /etc/acpi/events/sony-z-brightness-down > event=sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 00000010 > action=/etc/acpi/sonyzbrightbtn.sh down > > > > # /etc/acpi/events/sony-z-brightness-up > event=sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 00000011 > action=/etc/acpi/sonyzbrightbtn.sh up > > > > #/etc/acpi/sonyzbrightbtn.sh > #!/bin/sh > nvclock=/usr/bin/nvclock > #log=/tmp/sony-brightness.log > log=/dev/null > ret=0 > > echo $0 $@ >> $log > case "$1" in > up) > $nvclock -S +12% >> $log 2>&1 ; > ret=$$; > ;; > down) > $nvclock -S -12% >> $log 2>&1 ; > ret=$$; > ;; > *) > $nvclock -i |grep 'Brightness level' >> $log 2>&1 ; > ret=$$; > esac > > exit $ret > > > > On 10/12/10 06:10, Joël Bourquard wrote: > > Hi Jordi, > > Same here, I would be very happy if we could control brightness while > running on the NVIDIA card. I don't know exactly what it takes, maybe the > Intel card needs to be accessible from the PCI bus (since, as I heard, the > physical brightless control is connected to the Intel card). As I see it, > initializing the Intel card without allocating any of its buffers (ie: > initialize it just enough so we can ask it to set the brightness) might be > the way to do it. > > Maybe we could set up a bounty that would go to the one who publishes a > kernel patch and/or generic shell script and instructions to do it ? That > could be nice... > > > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Jordi Augé <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm a new Vaio Z user, and I've successfully installed Linux as Main OS on >> a VPCZ11X9/e, after some struggling I've gotten everything working, >> including hsdpa and graphics switching. My only gripe so far is the >> inability to control screen brightness when using nvidia graphics. >> >> Any updates on this issue? what changes will be necessary to implement it? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: >> https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series<https://launchpad.net/%7Esony-vaio-z-series> >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : >> https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series<https://launchpad.net/%7Esony-vaio-z-series> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series > <https://launchpad.net/%7Esony-vaio-z-series> > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series > <https://launchpad.net/%7Esony-vaio-z-series> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series<https://launchpad.net/%7Esony-vaio-z-series> > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series<https://launchpad.net/%7Esony-vaio-z-series> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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