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#1 2010-03-12 16:33:12

napsy
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Registered: 2009-03-07
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Sony Vaio FW issues

Hello. I have some problems with my Sony Vaio FW laptop.

1. the fan is strangely always running
2. can't shutdown via the GNOME menu
3. brightness doesn't work (xbacklight says "No outputs have backlight property")

All of the above worked on a previous Arch installation and in Ubuntu >= 9.04.

I have:
- acpi-cpufreq, cpufreq_ondamend, sony_laptop in MODULES()
- @acpid, cpufreq in DAEMONS()
- my user is a member of the following groups: network, video, audio, scanner, power, users, dbus, avahi, hal, vboxusers,
- my video driver is 'radeon'; xfree86-video-ati and gnome composition works perfect.

Am I missing some vital daemon or configuration? Please help.

Last edited by napsy (2010-03-12 16:33:48)

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#2 2010-03-13 16:16:42

napsy
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Registered: 2009-03-07
Posts: 48

Re: Sony Vaio FW issues

solved.

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#3 2010-03-19 07:36:06

oldmerovingian
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From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: 2010-03-19
Posts: 60

Re: Sony Vaio FW issues

Can you please post how these issues were solved?

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#4 2010-03-20 12:37:23

napsy
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Registered: 2009-03-07
Posts: 48

Re: Sony Vaio FW issues

I had acpid as marked as asynchronous in DAEMONS. When I removed the @ and rebooted the issue with the gnome menu and brightness was fixed. But the fan is still strangely very active. I've read somewhere that the radeon drivers don't work well and get the GPU going 100% all the time. But didn't go into details.

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#5 2010-04-02 20:07:14

oldmerovingian
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From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: 2010-03-19
Posts: 60

Re: Sony Vaio FW issues

So I have been trying for weeks to get the backlight on my Sony Vaio FW working to no avail. 

Could you possibly post your rc.conf file so I can see how mine is different?

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