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[Travis Reeder <travis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Is this stuff in any apt repo/ppa?

Also, does any of this increase battery life?  The sub 2 hours I'm getting
is driving me batty.


On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Craig S. Blackie <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> **
> It's great to see full functionality finally, shame we don't have Bumblebee
> to complete it. I'd like to thank all the contributors for  taking their
> time to make this happen.
>
> I'm having one issue though, I have VPCZ11C5E and don't get the Lid
> behaviour options with sony-laptop-zseries, version 0.9np8pre3. Does anyone
> else have this issue?
>
>
> On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 16:31 -0700, Brett Howard wrote:
>
> 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
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Norbert Preining            preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org}
> > JAIST, Japan                                 TeX Live & Debian Developer
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