Fedora 8 on Sony Vaio FJ series

[ggulik]

I have a Sony Vaio series that I got working really nicely with FC6 and F7 but I just upgraded to F8 and I have a couple issues.

The biggest problem is the sony_acpi and fsfn hack that I had been using to manage video brightness and audio volume with the Fn keys no longer works. I'm using the instructions described at:
Fedora on Sony Vaio FJ Series

Although sony_acpi does build and load with modprobe the files don't get created in /proc/acpi/sony and if those aren't there the fsfn daemon crashes.

It appears something changed in the new 2.6.23 kernel vs. the previous 2.6.22 kernel I had been using.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

[frostedegg]

I am in the same boat. I get no brightness/brightness_default/fnkey files.

I followed these instructions and got the same issues
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=162927

Can anyone help?

[chrischow]

I have been working to get acpi and function keys working on my t350p, Im curious to see what package those scripts in the /proc/acpi/sony come from... ubuntu 7 had close to flawless fn hotkey and brightness for the t350p and im thinking about just copying those scripts from it.

One question is what is the relationship between sony_laptop sonypi and sony_acpi. Are these all mods that overlap each other or ?

Chris

[metalworm]

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=171430

Still not get the solution for new driver.

Will update the HOW TO.