From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sebastian Pohl Subject: Re: ACPI Problems on Sony Vaio SZ61MN, no brightness ctrl, no power button Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:32:05 +0200 Message-ID: <487DC015.6070704@uni-koblenz.de> References: <487CA418.6060103@uni-koblenz.de> <1216172299.1617.145.camel@rzhang-dt> 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]:14220 "EHLO deliver.uni-koblenz.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755425AbYGPJcI (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:32:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1216172299.1617.145.camel@rzhang-dt> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Zhang Rui Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, malattia@linux.it Hi! Thanks for your answer! Zhang Rui wrote: > 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. :) > > Submitted both, after checking for existing, similar bugs :) http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11095 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11096 > 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. > > Yes, youre right, pressing the button has no effect. Pressing 4 seconds powers off the laptop. Is that done via acpi too? Thought that was a hardwarething. Uploaded both outputs here: http://www.twisted-artwork.de/vault/linux/powerbutton.txt >> 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/ > As i am not sure if its wise to paste it here, i just uploaded it to my webspace, its quite a long file. (And as i remember attachments on emails are not allowed on mailing lists?) The URL is http://www.twisted-artwork.de/vault/linux/acpidump.txt > >> 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? > > The backlight files exist but they dont change anything. When i use the sonypi driver i can change some of the stuff with the program spicctrl. Powering of the internal devices works, adjusting fanspeed works, adjusting backlight just has no effects. > cc Mattia, who is the maintainer of sony-laptop driver. :) > > Did that too a few days ago, but got no answer, maybe i got the wrong adress. Thanks for your help, i hope it doesnt take too long to solve this, cause in the meantime i am forced to use Windows when i am on the road, caus it has nearly twice the runtime on battery... :) regards sebastian