Re: what about the sony_acpi driver?

[Herman Sheremetyev <herman-6MNMYbGzEYJWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Have you tried spicctrl and the sonypi driver?  I was able to get LCD
brightness controls on an older Vaio with those.

-Herman

On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 18:27 +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:28:29PM +0800, Yu, Luming wrote:
> 
> > I admit the so-called generic-acpi-hotkey-driver is hard to use. :-(
> > And I'm trying to make it easy to use. 
> 
> Ok, i will try it out on a hotkey-enabled machine (asus)
> 
> > Please try tool: acpidm. And send it to me unless you got zero.
> 
> attached
> 
> > > yes, but those specific drivers work. Today. And they do even more than
> > > hotkeys (which are non-existent on this machine), e.g. adjusting LCD backlight
> > > or switching the ASUS custom LEDs.
> > Believe me, generic-hotkey-driver and acpi-video-driver can handle these, if this is a acpi system.
> 
> Ok. I tried the video driver and got lots of (mostly irritating) information,
> could not do anything with it. After compiling and insmod'ing sony_acpi, i
> could immediately adjust my brightness ;-)
> 
> I am willing to try out all kinds of stuff.
-- 
Herman Sheremetyev <herman-6MNMYbGzEYJWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
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