Re: what about the sony_acpi driver?

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

On 2005.06.06 17:12:35 +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 09:29:11PM +0800, Yu, Luming wrote:
> 
> > The generic hotkey driver has been in mm tree for a while. But you need to configure it for your laptop. 
> 
> Ok, so i did not look hard enough or i was blinded by the super-bright
> backlight ;-)
I admit the so-called generic-acpi-hotkey-driver is hard to use. :-(
And I'm trying to make it easy to use. 
> 
> > > 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?
> 
> There are no ACPI hotkeys on this machine. It is SONY cr*p :-( Do you still
> want the acpidmp output?

Please try tool: acpidm. And send it to me unless you got zero.

> 
> > > 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.
> 
> 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.
> -- 
> Stefan Seyfried

Thanks,
Luming


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