** Description changed: Using Ubuntu on Sony Vaio laptop with Nvidia 8 vga card: There is no way to control backlight brightness on Sony Vaios with 8-series adapters, e.g. nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400M GS nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600M GT (rev a1) The registers have been found (kudos to mikes!). See these hacked nvclock sources for fixed versions which can set backlight on Sony Vaios: http://stud.matrixcode.de/nvclock_hacked_seek.tgz http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18755253/nvclock_hacked.tgz So far mikes' registers have been found to work on: 8400M GS on Vaio SZ650 - 8400M GT on Vaio FZ38M, FZ11Z, VGN-NR31 + 8400M GT on Vaio FZ38M, FZ11Z, VGN-NR31, VGN-AR41E 8600M GS on Vaio FZ31Z Invoking sonybright.sh with hotkeys will do nothing until the script calls new versions either SmartDimmer or nvclock properly. Dual-adapter models (SZ6 among others) can get backlight control with the Intel adapter using xbacklight, and can get hotkey functionality as per bug #173652.
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