On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:56:31 +0300 Ismail Donmez <ismail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 26 Eyl 2006 Sal 19:29 tarihinde şunları yazmıştınız: > > 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. > > Will sony_acpi ever make it to the mainline? Its very useful for new Vaio > models. > I'm inclined to slip it in, but Len has good-sounding reasons for not merging this sort of driver, and I always forget what they are? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
