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From: Pete Carah <pete@ns.altadena.net>
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Subject: Re: Screen brightness on Sony Vaio Z600-HEK
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> On the Sony vaio under windows, if the power is plugged in, the screen
> runs bright. If it is running on batter, the screen runs dim. You can
> use fn-5 to change the brightness of the screen.

> Is there any way to change the brightness of the display in FreeBSD?
> fn-5 doesn't work. Also, is there any way to set brightness on
> detection of power / battery?

Well, I see Sony has changed something :-)  - on my Z505HS fn-5 works
fine in FBSD.  It dims on going from AC to battery but does not (by itself)
go back to bright on resumption of AC.

I'm using APM and not ACPI, under 4.3-stable...

-- Pete

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