Re: ACPI Problems on Sony Vaio SZ61MN, no brightness ctrl, no power button

Sebastian Pohl
2008-07-17T12:52:20Z

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