Description of problem: sonypi doesn't appear to work properly. spicctrl doesn't affect brightness and reports no display brightness. Reporting against kernel as dmesg on startup is complaining about sonypi. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 spicctrl-1.9-5.fc7 (i386) How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install spicctrl 2. # spicctrl -B 0 (implies screen off) 3. # spicctrl -b 128 (or any other value), does nothing Actual results: No effect from set commands. Get commands don't return actual status. Expected results: Brightness changes, correct value returned by get brightness. Additional info: Machine is Sony VGN C2M/W. The module is loaded [ian@prometheus ~]$ ls -lh /dev/sonypi crw------- 1 root root 10, 250 2007-06-27 10:22 /dev/sonypi [ian@prometheus ~]$ /sbin/lsmod | grep sonypi sonypi 25053 0 [ian@prometheus ~]$ dmesg |grep -i sony ACPI: RSDT 3F6904EB, 0050 (r1 Sony VAIO 20061219 PTL 0) ACPI: FACP 3F697C9A, 0084 (r2 Sony VAIO 20061219 PTL 5A) ACPI: DSDT 3F691DF7, 5EA3 (r1 Sony VAIO 20061219 PTL 20050624) ACPI: APIC 3F697D1E, 0068 (r1 Sony VAIO 20061219 PTL 5A) ACPI: HPET 3F697D86, 0038 (r1 Sony VAIO 20061219 PTL 5A) ACPI: MCFG 3F697DBE, 003C (r1 Sony VAIO 20061219 PTL 5A) ACPI: SLIC 3F697DFA, 0176 (r1 Sony VAIO 20061219 PTL 1000000) ACPI: APIC 3F697F70, 0068 (r1 Sony VAIO 20061219 PTL 0) ACPI: BOOT 3F697FD8, 0028 (r1 Sony VAIO 20061219 PTL 1) ACPI: SSDT 3F69161D, 07DA (r1 Sony VAIO 20061219 PTL 20050624) ACPI: SSDT 3F690B16, 028F (r1 Sony VAIO 20061219 PTL 20050624) ACPI: SSDT 3F690A75, 00A1 (r1 Sony VAIO 20061219 PTL 20050624) ACPI: SSDT 3F69053B, 053A (r1 Sony VAIO 20061219 PTL 20050624) ACPI: SSDT 3F691300, 0240 (r1 Sony VAIO 20061219 PTL 20050624) ACPI: SSDT 3F690DA5, 04C9 (r1 Sony VAIO 20061219 PTL 20050624) ACPI: SSDT 3F691540, 00DD (r1 Sony VAIO 20061219 PTL 20050624) ACPI: SSDT 3F69126E, 0092 (r1 Sony VAIO 20061219 PTL 20050624) sonypi: Sony Programmable I/O Controller Driver v1.26. sonypi: detected type3 model, verbose = 0, fnkeyinit = off, camera = off, compat = off, mask = 0xffffffff, useinput = on, acpi = on sonypi: enabled at irq=11, port1=0x1080, port2=0x1084 input: Sony Vaio Jogdial as /class/input/input6 input: Sony Vaio Keys as /class/input/input7 sonypi command failed at drivers/char/sonypi.c : sonypi_call1 (line 645) sonypi command failed at drivers/char/sonypi.c : sonypi_call2 (line 656) sonypi command failed at drivers/char/sonypi.c : sonypi_call2 (line 658) sonypi command failed at drivers/char/sonypi.c : sonypi_call1 (line 645)
Loading sony_laptop module allows control of display brightness through /sys interface. spicctrl behaviour unchanged.
Hello Ian, I'm reviewing this bug as part of the kernel bug triage project, an attempt to isolate current bugs in the fedora kernel. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelBugTriage I am CC'ing myself to this bug and will try and assist you in resolving it if I can. There hasn't been much activity on this bug for a while. Could you tell me if you are still having problems with the latest kernel? If the problem no longer exists then please close this bug or I'll do so in a few days if there is no additional information lodged. Cheers Chris
It appears sony-laptop has replaced sonypi <http://www.linux.it/~malattia/wiki/index.php/Sony-laptop> <http://www.linux.it/~malattia/wiki/index.php/Sonypi>. As above sony-laptop works fine and I have the machine loading that module on boot. I'd close but I'm not sure what the resolution should be.
Thanks Ian, will close as appropriate so others can see what worked for you.