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[Craig Blackie <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I get this issue on my vpcz1, may just wait for the fix as I run arch. Glad
to hear it's resolved though.  Tried using the updated Sony-laptop module
posted here but had no luck.  Just stops the laptop shutting down and
provides no als controls. There was a null pointer error some where.
Craig
On 23 Oct 2013 23:41, "Adam Williamson" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If anyone's seen a problem where the backlight keys don't work properly
> in GNOME (3.10 definitely affected, don't know about earlier) on a VPCZ1
> (and probably other Zs, anything with fewer than 10 backlight steps is
> affected) - the OSD pops up and looks like it moves between two values,
> but won't move any further, and the brightness never changes - you're
> probably hitting https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710380 .
> It's fixed in GNOME master, I'm trying to get the fix backported to
> 3.10. You can rebuild mutter, gnome-desktop3, and gnome-settings-daemon
> with the patches from git master to fix it, if you're that way inclined.
> Or you can just use the brightness slider in the User menu (top-right),
> which works.
>
> With this fix, the reboot fix (which I just confirmed in the bug report,
> so hopefully it'll get upstreamed soon), and sound working in 3.12, the
> VPCZ1 is actually working really nicely with Fedora 20 (and
> equivalently-up-to-date other distros, I expect).
> --
> Adam Williamson
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