Bug 382591

Summary:	app-misc/sonypid and sony-laptop drivers not working in VAIO VGN-BZ16‏
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Prince George <theprinceway>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	normal	CC:	fbcyborg
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Prince George 2011-09-11 12:44:42 UTC

I have my laptop vaio-VGN-BZ16 installed with gentoo linux 2.6.39 kernel with KDE 4.
My /sys/devices/platforms shows both sony-laptop and sonypi ( i don't know whether both are installed)
dmesg lists these:
sonypi command failed at drivers/char/sonypi.c : sonypi_call1 (line 654)
sonypi command failed at drivers/char/sonypi.c : sonypi_call1 (line 665)
sonypi command failed at drivers/char/sonypi.c : sonypi_call1 (line 667)
sonypi command failed at drivers/char/sonypi.c : sonypi_call1 (line 654)
sony-laptop: Sony Notebook control Driver v0.6

When i press by brightness control fn keys (fn+f5, fn+f6) , KDE applet "shows" increase/decrease but there is actually no brightness adjustment.

when these brightness fn keys are pressed in tty console i get mesg:
acpid: client 9854[0:0] has disconnected

What could be the problem?


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Flavio 2012-02-25 07:26:13 UTC

Hi, 

try to disable FB_UVESA, and enable KMS related to your graphic card driver.
See instructions on the official guide for that.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml#doc_chap2

I had a similar problem and I've solved disabling uvesafb and enabling KMS on intel.

By the way, as regard the advanced features, it would be great if an ebuild for the following sony-laptop-zseries driver would be available.
https://gitorious.org/sony-laptop-zseries
https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series

Cheers, 

Flavio

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2012-03-04 09:56:57 UTC

Please try that suggestion