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[Brett Howard <brett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Add me to the list of success stories...  I've also added the
sony-acpid utility that allows the light sensor to work and all..

The battery save function was a welcome change!  I'm using a
VPC-Z12CGX/x and running the 3.0 kernel.

Thanks for all your help gentlemen!

~Brett

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Norbert Preining <preining@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have build a new pre release of sony-laptop-zseries, version 0.9np8pre3
> with *loads* of changes.
>
> WARNING: this is only for 2.6.39 and above WARNING
>
> First there are the patches from Adam to support newer laptops.
>
> But I also included patches from Marco Chiappero which finally allows
> you to:
>        - turn on/off the CD
>        - control the behaviour when the lid is opened
>        - set the battery care function (!!!)
>        - in some cases manage the acceleration
>        - in some cases manage the kbd backlight ALS
> In the future the patches of Marco might (will hopefully) end up
> in main line.
>
> I have merged the changes for led/speed/stamina on off into the current
> kernel version plus Marco's patches.
>
> Please give it a try:
> http://www.logic.at/people/preining/software/sony-laptop-zseries-0.9np8pre3.tar.gz
>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
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