Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 16:12:00 +0100 (BST) From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> To: TERAMOTO Masahiro <teramoto@comm.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp>, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sony Z600-HEK - un-recommendation Message-ID: <200105101512.QAA27897@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: TERAMOTO Masahiro's message of Fri, 11 May 2001 00:02:42 %2B0900
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> Fn + F5 : up brightness > Shift + Fn + F5 : down brightness > > That works my old notebook PCG-N505EL and PCG-505S. Various things work on older laptops and not newer ones. There seems to be a tendency for all these laptop features - brightness, video output, suspend to disk - to move from being under BIOS control (and thus available in all OSes) to OS control (and thus, for now, available only in MS Windows). Indeed, this is an explicit goal of ACPI. -- Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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