Sony VGN-A290 screen - power down?

[Vladimir Grebenschikov]

В пт, 10/02/2006 в 10:56 +0000, Josef Karthauser пишет:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Is there any news on screen handling for sony laptops, especially
> the VGN-A290?  My machine suspends ok, but although the backlight
> goes off the screen itself stays powered up and the battery life
> isn't reduced.

Hi, 

I have VAIO Z1.
It turns backlight off with usual dpms control under X (like: xset dpms
30)

Does your Notebook awakes without problems after suspend ?
Mine is never returns from suspend. Any hints on awake ?

> I'm running 
>     FreeBSD foobar.tao.org.uk 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #23
> 
> with acpi_video.ko and acpi_sony.ko loaded.
> 
> The sony module shows up as:
> 
> % sysctl -a | grep sony
>     dev.acpi_sony.0.brightness: 4
>     dev.acpi_sony.0.ctr: 0
>     dev.acpi_sony.0.pcr: 0
>     dev.acpi_sony.0.wdp: 1280
>     dev.acpi_sony.0.cdp: 0
>     dev.acpi_sony.0.%desc: Sony notebook controller
>     dev.acpi_sony.0.%driver: acpi_sony
>     dev.acpi_sony.0.%location: handle=\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.SNC_
>     dev.acpi_sony.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=SNY5001 _UID=0
>     dev.acpi_sony.0.%parent: acpi0
> 
> Any hints would be greatfully received.
> 
> Thanks,
> Joe
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Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
vova at fbsd.ru