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: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:51:24 +0200 Message-ID: <487F404C.6020805@uni-koblenz.de> References: <487CA418.6060103@uni-koblenz.de> <1216172299.1617.145.camel@rzhang-dt> <487DC015.6070704@uni-koblenz.de> <20080716112707.GA3777@inferi.kami.home> 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]:4044 "EHLO deliver.uni-koblenz.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753238AbYGQMwU (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:52:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080716112707.GA3777@inferi.kami.home> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Mattia Dongili Cc: Zhang Rui , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Mattia Dongili wrote: > > The SZ series have a stamina/speed switch switch between 2 video cards. > Usually one is an NVidia (for speed) and one is an Intel (for stamina). > On the NVidia there is nothing we can do (you can try nvclock or any > nvidia proprietary tool as documented on my wiki[1]), while for the > Intel card it's a different story (again documented on my wiki). > If you have no luck with the sony-laptop provided backlight control you > can try xbacklight that, as far as I can see[2], should work on your > Intel chipset. > > hope this helps > > [1]: http://www.linux.it/~malattia/wiki/index.php/Sony-laptop#Brightness > [2]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xbacklight/+bug/173652 > Hi, the backlight now is working with the Intel chipset. But the workaround had some sideeffects: Now the lidswitch is unfunctional. :/ I tried to find out if it works by running acpi_listen but the lidswitch generates no events... Any ideas? regards sebastian