I don't share your perceptions of smartdimmer's effect, it seems correct to me. Having looked at the source-code, and that of nvclock (recently updated and does brightness and more) I know that both are directly controlling the Nvidia chipset screen brightness registers.
As to the Fn keys, yes it is annoying that Sony are using the Notebook Controller, which means the sonypi solution used on older Vaio's can't handle the key events. That said, it isn't really a show-stopper to loose a couple of minor keys and a few alternate function keys. Work is in progress to address the issue. I was expecting a hard and long fight to get the VGN-FE41Z fully configured for GNU/Linux but I've been overwhelming surprised and pleased at how everything is supported including the internal SoftModem via the Linuxant HSF drivers. -- no brightness control in sony vaio vgn-fe31b https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/115525 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
