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  1. Bug #173652
  2. Comment #53

Comment 53 for bug 173652

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moenster (moenster) wrote : Re: unable to adjust screen brightness on recent Sony Vaio notebooks

Aloha there!

Well, in a certain way it calms me, that I'm not the only one around with a nice Vaio Lappy I need sunglasses for ;-)
It's a FZ18M, nVidia 8400M GT.

Before I installed Hardy Heron (Kernel 2.6.24-16; nVidia drivers 169.12) I had Windows XP running besides Win Vista. The fn-keys did'nt work either -- BUT... With a slight modification of the driver's inf-file it was possible to adjust the LCD's brightness through the nVidia control center!

It's definitely a driver problem, isn't it? The most other forums I browsed say the same. So we'll have to wait for nVidia :-(

smartdimmer, nvclock, xbacklight, spicctrl and all these neat tool are more or less useless :-/