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[Adam Hill <sidepipeuk@xxxxxxxxx>]

It seems that some of the ACPI stuff has moved. Brightness is now controlled
by:

/sys/devices/virtual/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness

Whilst cpu thermal is:

/sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp

Adam
On 10 Nov 2010 17:05, "Florian Langlois" <chamois94@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks Adam for this new kernel,
>
> I just tested it and it seems to fix the problem with the
> suspend/resume black screen on my Vaio VPCZ12C5E with 1600x900 screen
> on the Intel GPU.
>
> But some ACPI thing seem to have disappeared because I can't anymore
> modify backlight and read CPU temperature.
>
> Maybe I missed something or did something wrong during the
> installation of the new kernel. Though I didn't test very intensively
> for the moment.
>
> Florian
>
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Just to let you know that I've updated my kernel to one based on the
>> Ubuntu 2.6.37-2 version. I've patched in the latest drm-intel-next, as
well as
>> my version of Norbert's np7 sony-laptop module and my fix for the NVidia
sound
>> chip in stamina mode.
>
>> As ever, 2.6.37 and especially drm-intel-next are absolutely bleeding
>> edge, and all bets are off again as to what might be broken. However,
given
>> that there is much more focus in the drm-intel-next branch in getting the
>> Intel drivers improved I thought it was worth the risk. I'd advise anyone
who
>> isn't skilled in the art of Linux to wait a short while to make sure that
>> there are no major problems with this release. Similarly feedback on what
>> additional fixes there might be in this one ( suspend/resume? ) would be
>> useful.
>
>> Anyone who is using my upstart script will need to add this version
>> number to the test of uname -r towards the end of the script, though I've
also
>> modded the one in my files section to look for simply something ending in
"-
>> vaioz".
>
>> The kernel is in the usual place - http://www.voip-x.co.uk/files/adam/
>
>> Adam.