Hi, Sebastian, Please file a new bug report for each of the problem (power button and brightness) at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=ACPI and attach the files listed below. :) On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 15:20 +0200, Sebastian Pohl wrote: > Hi there! > > First i hope my other messages have realy disappereard. I send them > yesterday from a windows machine and as described in the FAQ it seemed > to be blocked because of the charset. If by any chance that message > arrives please excuse it and ignore it! > > My Problem exists on a Sony Vaio Laptop with the modelcode SZ61MN/B. I > am currently running Archlinux with a 2.6.25.11-1 kernel. Most things on > the notebook seem to be working, even the lidswitch is recognized. > > Problems are the non-working power button, what do you mean by non-working power button? Pressing the power button doesn't power off the laptop, right? what if you press it for four seconds? please run "grep . /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/*" both before and after pressing the power button and attach the result. > thats a real problem, just > annoying, and what realy is a pain, the backlight brigthness is not > adjustable, so i always get a nice suntan from the screen. That realy > sucks at night... please attach the acpidump output with the latest pmtools at http://www.lesswatts.org/patches/linux_acpi/ > > I tried for about a week now to find a solution and i worked my way > through all of the possible solutions called sony-laptop, sonypi, > sony-acpi but none of them worked for me. what did you get? empty /sys/class/backlight/ entry with any of these drivers loaded? or the backlight I/F exists but they don't work for you? cc Mattia, who is the maintainer of sony-laptop driver. :) thanks, rui -- 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
