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@@ -3,12 +3,18 @@ Sony Notebook Control Driver (SNC) Readme
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Copyright (C) 2004- 2005 Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
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Copyright (C) 2007 Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
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-This mini-driver drives the SNC device present in the ACPI BIOS of
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-the Sony Vaio laptops.
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+This mini-driver drives the SNC and SPIC device present in the ACPI BIOS of the
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+Sony Vaio laptops. This driver mixes both devices functions under the same
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+(hopefully consistent) interface. This also means that the sonypi driver is
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+obsoleted by sony-laptop now.
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-It gives access to some extra laptop functionalities. In its current
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-form, this driver let the user set or query the screen brightness
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-through the backlight subsystem and remove/apply power to some devices.
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+Fn keys (hotkeys):
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+------------------
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+Some models report hotkeys through the SNC or SPIC devices, such events are
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+reported both through the ACPI subsystem as acpi events and through the INPUT
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+subsystem. See the logs of acpid or /proc/acpi/event and
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+/proc/bus/input/devices to find out what those events are and which input
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+devices are created by the driver.
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Backlight control:
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@@ -39,6 +45,8 @@ The files are:
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audiopower power on/off the internal sound card
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lanpower power on/off the internal ethernet card
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(only in debug mode)
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+ bluetoothpower power on/off the internal bluetooth device
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+ fanspeed get/set the fan speed
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Note that some files may be missing if they are not supported
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by your particular laptop model.
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@@ -76,9 +84,9 @@ The sony-laptop driver creates, for some of those methods (the most
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current ones found on several Vaio models), an entry under
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/sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop, just like the 'cdpower' one.
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You can create other entries corresponding to your own laptop methods by
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-further editing the source (see the 'sony_acpi_values' table, and add a new
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+further editing the source (see the 'sony_nc_values' table, and add a new
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entry to this table with your get/set method names using the
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-HANDLE_NAMES macro).
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+SNC_HANDLE_NAMES macro).
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Your mission, should you accept it, is to try finding out what
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those entries are for, by reading/writing random values from/to those
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@@ -87,6 +95,9 @@ files and find out what is the impact on your laptop.
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Should you find anything interesting, please report it back to me,
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I will not disavow all knowledge of your actions :)
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+See also http://www.linux.it/~malattia/wiki/index.php/Sony_drivers for other
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+useful info.
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+
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Bugs/Limitations:
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