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From: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
To: Andrea Gelmini <gelma@gelma.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:29:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45195583.4090500@popies.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060926135659.GA3685@jnb.gelma.net>

Andrea Gelmini a écrit :
> Hi,
> 	I've got a Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP (dmidecode[1] and lspci[2]).
> 	Using default kernel (linux-image-2.6.15-27-686) of Ubuntu
> 	Dapper I've got /proc/acpi/sony/brightness and it works well
> 	(yes, Ubuntu drivers/char/sonypi.c is patched).
> 	With any other newer vanilla kernel, 2.6.15/16/17/18, /proc/acpi/sony
> 	doesn't appear, and it's impossibile to set brigthness, of
> 	course. Same thing with Ubuntu kernel package
> 	(linux-image-2.6.17-9-386).
> 	I tried to port Ubuntu sonypi.c patches to 2.6.18, but it doesn't
> 	work (I mean, it compiles clean, it "modprobes"[3] clean, but no
> 	/proc/acpi/sony/ directory).

/proc/acpi/sony comes from the sony_acpi driver, not sonypi.

You should get the latest sony_acpi driver, preferably from the -mm tree 
which hosts the most up to date version.

Stelian.
-- 
Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-26 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-26 13:56 sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP Andrea Gelmini
2006-09-26 16:29 ` Stelian Pop [this message]
2006-09-26 17:56   ` Ismail Donmez
2006-09-27  5:14     ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-27  5:59       ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-27  6:04       ` Len Brown
2006-09-27  7:50         ` Ismail Donmez
2006-09-28 15:48           ` Yu Luming
2006-09-27 16:26       ` Andrea Gelmini
2006-09-26 21:38   ` Andrea Gelmini
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-09-27 11:51 stelian
2006-09-28 16:27 ` Yu Luming
2007-01-04  5:24 ` Len Brown
2007-01-04 10:09   ` Stelian Pop
2007-01-04 19:15     ` Mattia Dongili
2007-01-04 20:51       ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-04 21:18         ` Mattia Dongili
2007-01-04 21:28           ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-04 21:36             ` Timo Hoenig
2007-01-04 21:36             ` Richard Hughes
2007-01-04 21:58               ` Mattia Dongili
2007-01-05 17:02                 ` Len Brown
2007-01-05 18:06                   ` Mattia Dongili
2007-01-04 23:36         ` Stelian Pop
2007-01-04 23:44           ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-04 23:54             ` Stelian Pop
2007-01-05  4:16               ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-05  9:58                 ` Stelian Pop
2007-01-05  2:20             ` MoRpHeUz
2007-01-05  0:11           ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-05  9:15             ` Mattia Dongili
2007-01-05  9:59             ` Stelian Pop
2007-01-04 23:34       ` Stelian Pop
2007-01-05 10:02       ` Stelian Pop
2007-01-05 12:13         ` Mattia Dongili
2007-01-05 14:23           ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-09 15:19   ` Luming Yu

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