FC1 on a VAIO

Z zleite at mminternet.com
Wed Nov 12 04:16:10 UTC 2003


Ie been playing with sonypi, no luck so far. The driver from sony (for
Win2k/XP) was really hard to get going as well...

On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 16:19, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:38:42PM +0000, Matheesha wrote:
>  > On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 05:04, Z wrote:
>  > > Works great on mine, except that the Fn key doesn't work. It was a
>  > > *bitch* to make it work in XP as well.
>  > 
>  > Are you trying to use the hotkeys for adjusting the volume, brightness
>  > etc..? In Windows, VAIO laptops require some Sony software installed
>  > (somethng like Sony hotkey utils or similar) which install some drivers
>  > that allow these hotkey combinations to work. Correct me if I am wrong
>  > but unless there is a linux equivalent, I doubt you will get this to
>  > work.
> 
> That'll likely be the sonypi module.
> There are a bunch of tools that work with /dev/sonypi, I'm not sure
> which (if any) of these we ship, but freshmeat will no doubt have them
> listed.
> 
> 		Dave
> 
> 
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