Re: what about the sony_acpi driver?

["Yu, Luming" <luming.yu-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 2005.06.06 13:09:52 +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> there has been this discussion some time ago when Stelian Pop submitted
> his sony_acpi driver for inclusion. Back then it was IIRC dismissed with
> the mention of a "soon to come" universal all-curing hotkey and an even
> better video/LCD driver.
The generic hotkey driver has been in mm tree for a while. But you need to configure it for your laptop. 

> When will these come? Or did i just not look hard enough?
> My problem is: i am now plagued with a SONY (yeah, i was naughty, so i
> got the machine nobody wanted ;-) VGN-FS115B which has a _really_ bright
> backlight. It is in fact so bright that i fear for my retinas, so i have
> to turn it down (this also brings the battery life from less than 2 hours
> to about 3 1/2 hours :-). To do this, i need the sony_acpi driver, or boot
> Windows.
Please send me output of acpidmp, and let me see how to configure generic hotkeydriver for your model?

> 
> So the question is: will the sony_acpi driver be included (when?) or will
> the omnipotent generic driver work soon?
It is hard to manage if each brand or model has a specific hotkey driver in kernel.

> -- 
> Stefan Seyfried
> 
> 
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