Bug 541257

Summary:	FN5 & FN6 keys fail to control brightness on sony vaio VGN-FW51Z/H laptop.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mark Lees <bugzilla>
Component:	acpid	Assignee:	Jiri Skala <jskala>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	12	CC:	aglotov, eric.donkersloot, jskala
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Description Mark Lees 2009-11-25 12:10:45 UTC

Description of problem:

On my Sony VGN-FW51ZF/H laptopn then FN5 + FN6 Keys do not allow brightness to be controlled.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

How reproducible: 

Easily reproducible.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Press the FN5 key
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Actual results:
Brightness of screen does not change

Expected results:
Brightness of screen should dim.

Additional info:
I think I've narrowed it down to either the  sony-laptop or acpi modules.

When pressing other keys, like the "AV Mode" key, I get a message in /var/log/messages which states.

Nov 25 12:08:56 localhost kernel: sony-laptop: Unknown event: 0x100 0xa1
Nov 25 12:08:56 localhost kernel: sony-laptop: Unknown event: 0x100 0x21

However, pressing the FN5 + FN6 keys does not produce these messages so I'm assuming that they are being trapped but not working correctly.

Thx
Mark.

Comment 1 Eric Donkersloot 2009-12-01 14:52:47 UTC

Please try this workaround: reboot your machine with the 'nomodeset' kernel parameter. This might be a duplicate of bug 519105 ?

Comment 2 Steven M. Parrish 2009-12-06 20:03:27 UTC

Reassigned to correct component

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Comment 3 Mark Lees 2009-12-06 20:35:09 UTC

I tried the nomodeset option and it had no effect. The FN5/6 keys still do not affect the brightness of the display.

Comment 4 Jiri Skala 2010-02-22 09:17:48 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Please try this workaround: reboot your machine with the 'nomodeset' kernel
> parameter. This might be a duplicate of bug 519105 ?    

The question was not answered but I went through the bug #519105 I'm convinced this bug duplicates #519105. Therefore I close this as a duplicity.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 519105 ***

Comment 5 Mark Lees 2010-02-22 18:47:22 UTC

Hi Jiri,

I'm not sure what you mean by "This question was not answered" as if you'd taken just a few seconds you would have spotted my reponse which, to save you having to waste your obviously valueable time, I have reposted here.

"I tried the nomodeset option and it had no effect. The FN5/6 keys still do not
affect the brightness of the display."..

Regards
Mark.

Comment 6 Jiri Skala 2010-02-23 07:14:46 UTC

Hi Mark,
I'm sorry I didn't explain it with accuracy. You really reacted on the comment #1 (I' spent more time than seconds with this issue :-)). I've mentioned the second part about duplicity to #519105 that is key point.

Regards

Jiri