From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Zhang Rui Subject: Re: ACPI Problems on Sony Vaio SZ61MN, no brightness ctrl, no power button Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:38:19 +0800 Message-ID: <1216172299.1617.145.camel@rzhang-dt> References: <487CA418.6060103@uni-koblenz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:55498 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751186AbYGPBj1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:39:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <487CA418.6060103@uni-koblenz.de> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Sebastian Pohl Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, malattia@linux.it Hi, Sebastian, Please file a new bug report for each of the problem (power button and brightness) at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=ACPI and attach the files listed below. :) On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 15:20 +0200, Sebastian Pohl wrote: > Hi there! > > First i hope my other messages have realy disappereard. I send them > yesterday from a windows machine and as described in the FAQ it seemed > to be blocked because of the charset. If by any chance that message > arrives please excuse it and ignore it! > > My Problem exists on a Sony Vaio Laptop with the modelcode SZ61MN/B. I > am currently running Archlinux with a 2.6.25.11-1 kernel. Most things on > the notebook seem to be working, even the lidswitch is recognized. > > Problems are the non-working power button, what do you mean by non-working power button? Pressing the power button doesn't power off the laptop, right? what if you press it for four seconds? please run "grep . /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/*" both before and after pressing the power button and attach the result. > thats a real problem, just > annoying, and what realy is a pain, the backlight brigthness is not > adjustable, so i always get a nice suntan from the screen. That realy > sucks at night... please attach the acpidump output with the latest pmtools at http://www.lesswatts.org/patches/linux_acpi/ > > I tried for about a week now to find a solution and i worked my way > through all of the possible solutions called sony-laptop, sonypi, > sony-acpi but none of them worked for me. what did you get? empty /sys/class/backlight/ entry with any of these drivers loaded? or the backlight I/F exists but they don't work for you? cc Mattia, who is the maintainer of sony-laptop driver. :) thanks, rui