From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sebastian Pohl Subject: ACPI Problems on Sony Vaio SZ61MN, no brightness ctrl, no power button Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:20:24 +0200 Message-ID: <487CA418.6060103@uni-koblenz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.64.15]:28668 "EHLO deliver.uni-koblenz.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755540AbYGONVO (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:21:14 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A376789A97E for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:21:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (deliver.uni-koblenz.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 29988-03 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:21:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.40.2] (unknown [82.115.105.247]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61EEF789A8EB for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:21:10 +0200 (CEST) Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org 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, 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... 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. The web also holds some other persons with the exact same problem. I also tried to contact the maintainers and writers of that programs but i got no reply till now and no solution. So this is my last chance to get an answer here and i hope you can help me! As i am not that of a pro linux user, i am not quite sure what information you would need to possibly help me. Please tell me what info i can provide to make the case clearer! kind regards Sebastian