From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 10 8:12:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk [129.215.144.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 173D637B423; Thu, 10 May 2001 08:12:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk) Received: (from richard@localhost) by rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA27897; Thu, 10 May 2001 16:12:00 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 16:12:00 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <200105101512.QAA27897@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> From: Richard Tobin Subject: Re: Sony Z600-HEK - un-recommendation To: TERAMOTO Masahiro , Warner Losh In-Reply-To: TERAMOTO Masahiro's message of Fri, 11 May 2001 00:02:42 +0900 Organization: just say no Cc: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Fn + F5 : up brightness > Shift + Fn + F5 : down brightness > > That works my old notebook PCG-N505EL and PCG-505S. Various things work on older laptops and not newer ones. There seems to be a tendency for all these laptop features - brightness, video output, suspend to disk - to move from being under BIOS control (and thus available in all OSes) to OS control (and thus, for now, available only in MS Windows). Indeed, this is an explicit goal of ACPI. -- Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message