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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
To: Michael Wallner <mike@iworks.at>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to help with sony-laptop on Vaio VGN-TT11
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:35:37 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0901081534190.4505@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <496634F2.3080505@iworks.at>

On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Michael Wallner wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I own a new Sony Vaio VGN-TT11 laptop and wonder how I could help to
> make sony-laptop better support this model.  Where to go from here?
> 
> I'm especially interested in getting the backlight to work as I'm unable
> to work with Linux on this machine unless I would like to become blind.
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Mike

I've recently got a VGN-z540 and was impressed at how bright it is too:-)

they hotkeys do not work,
however, echo into /sys/class/backlight/*/brightness files works,
do you have those files?

cheers,
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-08 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-08 17:16 How to help with sony-laptop on Vaio VGN-TT11 Michael Wallner
2009-01-08 20:35 ` Len Brown [this message]
2009-01-08 21:38   ` Michael Wallner
2009-01-08 23:41   ` Norbert Preining
2009-01-09  1:57     ` Matthew Garrett
2009-01-09  6:38       ` Norbert Preining
2009-01-09 11:09     ` Michael Wallner
2009-01-09 18:10       ` Norbert Preining
2009-01-09 11:10     ` Michael Wallner

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