vaio's screen brightness
Ian Malone
ibmalone at gmail.com
Sun Sep 2 23:26:02 UTC 2007
Andre Kirchner wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have just installed Fedora Core 6 in a Vaio laptop,
> and everything is fine except for the screen's
> brightness, which is too dark.
> Does anyone know how do I adjust it, or where can I
> find more information about it?
>
The sony-laptop module may be worth a try[1], however ISTR
mine defaulted to full brightness unless told otherwise.
I assume the machine came with Windows on it, was it
brighter[2]?
[1]
http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/Documentation/sony-laptop.txt?v=linux-2.6
Basically # modprobe sony-laptop
then # cat > /sys/class/backlight/sony/brightness
enter 7 and see what happens.
[2] That'd be good material for MS's marketing department
if Orange hadn't trademarked it.
--
imalone
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