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[Brett Howard <brett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not sure if this interests anyone but I found the auto display
backlight changes annoying.  If I want it dimmer or bighter I'll set
it as such.  I found that also the display would feed back into the
ambient light sensor and that the color of what you were working with
would change things.  If you opened a dark document the brightness
would increase but if you opened up a white word processor or
something the brightness would decrease.  If you try watching a movie
in a dark room it was constantly adjusting based on the content of the
display.

However I do find that I really like the keyboard automatically doing
its thing.  I've modified the sony-acpid code to put in the
functionality that allows you to still use the manual brightness
up/down buttons but disables the ambient light scaling of the display
backlight if anyone is interested I'll see about making a patch file
or just providing the code.  Its a very simple change...

~Brett

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Wouter van der Graaf <wouter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yeah, I placed the compiled binary in /usr/sbin and referenced it in the
> startup applications setting.
>
> Thanks for mentioning this code in the first place. It's good to check out
> other Vaio groups for these gems.
>
> W
>
> On di 25 okt 2011 12:03:31 CEST, Craig S. Blackie wrote:
>>
>> Yes thank you, all working again as I had it in Natty, be sure to run it
>> as a startup application too.
>>
>> ----- Original message -----
>> > Yes! I made it compile! The location of the -lm parameter is wrong. It
>> > should be at the end of the gcc command. Compiled and running the
>> > ambient light sensor daemon on my Vaio Z13. If I place my finger on the
>> > sensor, the screen darkens and the keyboard lights up! Very cool to
>> > have this functionality in Linux. I will contact the developer about
>> > this.
>> >
>> > Craig, can you confirm that this works for you as well?
>> >
>> > W
>> >
>> > On wo 19 okt 2011 12:26:52 CEST, Wouter van der Graaf wrote:
>> > > Same errors here. Upgraded to Ubuntu Oneiric recently. I'm not
>> > > familiar with C programming and compiling, so don't know where to
>> > > look. I did try searching the web, but found nothing helpful. Most
>> > > issues found on the Net are solved with the -lm parameter, but this is
>> > > something different. Maybe something changed recently in the default
>> > > Ubuntu toolchain?
>> > >
>> > > Anyone?
>> > >
>> > > Thanks in advance,
>> > >
>> > > Wouter
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Op 10-10-11 04:14, Craig S. Blackie schreef:
>> > > > Just done a fresh install of Ubuntu and cannot get this to compile
>> > > > now, anyone else able to?
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > csb@csb-laptop <mailto:csb@csb-laptop>:~/sony-acpid$ ./compile
>> > > > /tmp/ccGy8D49.o: In function `handle_acpi_events':
>> > > > acpi_funcs.c:(.text+0x102): undefined reference to `log'
>> > > > acpi_funcs.c:(.text+0x127): undefined reference to `log'
>> > > > acpi_funcs.c:(.text+0x151): undefined reference to `pow'
>> > > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> > > > csb@csb-laptop <mailto:csb@csb-laptop>:~/sony-acpid$
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > On 27/07/11 00:54, craigsblackie wrote:
>> > > > > Using the latest sony-laptop kernel module posted here with
>> > > > > Sony-Acpid, I was able to get the keyboard and screen to
>> > > > > automatically dim the screen and enable the kbd light when ambient
>> > > > > light dropped.
>> > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > > http://code.google.com/p/vaio-f11-linux/wiki/AutoDimmingBacklightDaemon
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Works just like Windows now. Hope this is useful to some.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Craig
>> > > >
>> > > >
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