Re: what about the sony_acpi driver?

[Stefan Seyfried <seife-T+3qhDtrTvDv8lqoKu5MV4HBZQ1bDw0s@public.gmane.org>]

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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.

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> > 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.
-- 
Stefan Seyfried

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