Re: [Bug 95444] Re: No Screen Backlight Control; Sony Vaio with nvidia 8 series graphics

2008-11-06 Thread nielsslot
Daemon or other but I've a problem with Hotkeys setup... I followed what nielsslot said, I restart acpid and mes keys work. But when I restart my computer, I must restart acpid once when I want to use my keys... Do you have this problem too ? -- No Screen Backlight Control; Sony Vaio

[Bug 292473] Re: KDE4 in Intrepid lacks translations for messages with context or plural forms

2008-11-04 Thread nielsslot
I'd like to mention that this bug also effects KTurtle. In Intrepid's KTurtle it's not possible to executes scripts written in any other language then English. KTurtle uses contexts for translation (the ki18nc method is used). A workaround is installing the Debian kde-l10n-* packages. -- KDE4

Re: [Bug 95444] Re: No Screen Backlight Control; Sony Vaio with nvidia 8 series graphics

2008-10-28 Thread nielsslot
yleetiny: current NVClock CVS includes a Smartdimmer utility. The code of this utility is based on the old smartdimmer code and uses the new NVClock backend (with Geforce 8 support). 2008/10/28 yleetiny [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does somebody have tried to patch smartdimmer too? I was originally

[Bug 286978] Re: Add support for nVidia 8 series backlight control to smartdimmer

2008-10-26 Thread nielsslot
Current NVClock CVS has a copy of the smartdimmer utility with Geforce 8 support. -- Add support for nVidia 8 series backlight control to smartdimmer https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286978 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 95444] Re: No Screen Backlight Control; Sony Vaio with nvidia 8 series graphics

2008-10-26 Thread nielsslot
Current CVS version of NVClock works fine for me. I tested it today and gave some feedback to Roderick / Thunderbird. I would like to ask everyone here to test the CVS version. See http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=21335 for instructions on how to get it. See the description of the bug on how

Re: [Bug 95444] Re: No Screen Backlight Control; Sony Vaio with nvidia 8 series graphics

2008-10-24 Thread nielsslot
I've already got FN keys to work. It's pretty easy. In /etc/acpi/events there are a number of files. You can copy or change the sony brightness files. First change the key event. To find out which key code you need run 'acpi_listen' and press the brightness up and down keys. For me it was

Re: [Bug 95444] Re: No Screen Backlight Control; Sony Vaio with nvidia 8 series graphics

2008-10-22 Thread nielsslot
NVClock crashes in Acpi.d events because no HOME environment variable has been set. See src/backend/config.c line 273. As a workaround I have this: #!/bin/bash HOME=/root nvclock -S 5 I also had to copy the ~/.nvclock directory to /root/.nvclock. Now I've got it working perfectly. When I unplug

Re: [Bug 95444] Re: No Screen Backlight Control; Sony Vaio with nvidia 8 series graphics

2008-10-21 Thread nielsslot
I can confirm this work on a Sony Vaio FZ38M with a 8400M GT. Mikes: thank you very much :). 2008/10/21 mephx [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 21 October 2008 03:22:28 SooW wrote: Great news! Let's hope things will improve quickly now :) I'm on a 8400M too and would be glad to test your hack.

[Bug 95444] Re: No Screen Backlight Control; Sony Vaio with nvidia 8 series graphics

2008-10-21 Thread nielsslot
Hi guys, I've made a patch using code from Mikes and seek. My patch makes more use of code already in NVClock. It therefore works, for the user, the same as with older GeForce 7xxx cards. This means that you have to supply a percentage instead of just a value. Because of this I had to choose a 0%

[Bug 286978] Re: Add support for nVidia 8 series backlight control to smartdimmer

2008-10-21 Thread nielsslot
According to the README file of Smartdimmer the tool is obsolete. Quote: The PCM register on the nVIDIA card was found using numerous register dumps in Cygwin under Windows and comparing the differing registers. The register is accessed using libbackend from nvclock and this setting will most

[Bug 173652] Re: unable to adjust screen brightness on recent Sony Vaio notebooks

2008-08-28 Thread nielsslot
Can anyone confirm that this also works on Vaio's with NVida GeForce 8 graphics cards? As far as I know this fix is only for Intel graphics cards. -- unable to adjust screen brightness on recent Sony Vaio notebooks https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173652 You received this bug notification because