Re: sony vaio pcg-k45 hell

[Erik Slagter <erik-KW7PGP3XNp7a5EbDDlwbIw@public.gmane.org>]

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On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 12:22 +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > (3) S3 suspend does NOT work at all (using hibernate-ram script)
> 
> Probably not a general ACPI problem. Read Documentation/power/video.txt

There are lots of laptops where you will never get S3 working anyway
(e.g. Dell Inspiron 4150).

Try swsusp instead.

> > (5) no fan control

> sony crap bios, no ACPI fan control methods => not an ACPI problem

Most laptops have no fan control using ACPI, sometimes using SMI.

> > (7) hotkeys for changing brightness etc do not work.
> 
> SONY crap. These are no ACPI hotkeys, all the hotkeys on the vgn-fs115
> emitted a standard keycode. Unfortunately all emitted the same keycode.

It probably works as on most laptops, the special keystrokes are handled
by the keyboard controller itself, so you'll never be able to
catch/control them from a user app.

> SONY notebooks are just badly designed IMO, even the Windows XP drivers
> and utilities looked and felt very hackish.
> Although the hardware / case / display / keyboard were fine, i would
> probably not buy a SONY if i had to pay it with my own money.

Please note that almost all laptops are built by two or three factories.
I am willing to bet a large sum of money that Sony does not build them
themselves.

> > I tried to find a PSS table in the DSDT, and couldn't.. it seems the
> > acpi on this laptop is insanely broken. :-(
> 
> Most of the problems you have are probably not ACPI problems.

Also ACPI implementation itself on most laptops seems to be more or less
broken...

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