Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932220AbWIZR4k (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:56:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932224AbWIZR4a (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:56:30 -0400 Received: from ns2.uludag.org.tr ([193.140.100.220]:54491 "EHLO uludag.org.tr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932225AbWIZR4L convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:56:11 -0400 From: Ismail Donmez Organization: =?utf-8?q?T=C3=9CB=C4=B0TAK/UEKAE?= To: Stelian Pop Subject: Re: sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:56:31 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 Cc: Andrea Gelmini , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060926135659.GA3685@jnb.gelma.net> <45195583.4090500@popies.net> In-Reply-To: <45195583.4090500@popies.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609262056.32052.ismail@pardus.org.tr> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1393 Lines: 32 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. -- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/