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@@ -3,12 +3,18 @@ Sony Notebook Control Driver (SNC) Readme | |||
3 | Copyright (C) 2004- 2005 Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net> | 3 | Copyright (C) 2004- 2005 Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net> |
4 | Copyright (C) 2007 Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> | 4 | Copyright (C) 2007 Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> |
5 | 5 | ||
6 | This mini-driver drives the SNC device present in the ACPI BIOS of | 6 | This mini-driver drives the SNC and SPIC device present in the ACPI BIOS of the |
7 | the Sony Vaio laptops. | 7 | Sony Vaio laptops. This driver mixes both devices functions under the same |
8 | (hopefully consistent) interface. This also means that the sonypi driver is | ||
9 | obsoleted by sony-laptop now. | ||
8 | 10 | ||
9 | It gives access to some extra laptop functionalities. In its current | 11 | Fn keys (hotkeys): |
10 | form, this driver let the user set or query the screen brightness | 12 | ------------------ |
11 | through the backlight subsystem and remove/apply power to some devices. | 13 | Some models report hotkeys through the SNC or SPIC devices, such events are |
14 | reported both through the ACPI subsystem as acpi events and through the INPUT | ||
15 | subsystem. See the logs of acpid or /proc/acpi/event and | ||
16 | /proc/bus/input/devices to find out what those events are and which input | ||
17 | devices are created by the driver. | ||
12 | 18 | ||
13 | Backlight control: | 19 | Backlight control: |
14 | ------------------ | 20 | ------------------ |
@@ -39,6 +45,8 @@ The files are: | |||
39 | audiopower power on/off the internal sound card | 45 | audiopower power on/off the internal sound card |
40 | lanpower power on/off the internal ethernet card | 46 | lanpower power on/off the internal ethernet card |
41 | (only in debug mode) | 47 | (only in debug mode) |
48 | bluetoothpower power on/off the internal bluetooth device | ||
49 | fanspeed get/set the fan speed | ||
42 | 50 | ||
43 | Note that some files may be missing if they are not supported | 51 | Note that some files may be missing if they are not supported |
44 | by your particular laptop model. | 52 | by your particular laptop model. |
@@ -76,9 +84,9 @@ The sony-laptop driver creates, for some of those methods (the most | |||
76 | current ones found on several Vaio models), an entry under | 84 | current ones found on several Vaio models), an entry under |
77 | /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop, just like the 'cdpower' one. | 85 | /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop, just like the 'cdpower' one. |
78 | You can create other entries corresponding to your own laptop methods by | 86 | You can create other entries corresponding to your own laptop methods by |
79 | further editing the source (see the 'sony_acpi_values' table, and add a new | 87 | further editing the source (see the 'sony_nc_values' table, and add a new |
80 | entry to this table with your get/set method names using the | 88 | entry to this table with your get/set method names using the |
81 | HANDLE_NAMES macro). | 89 | SNC_HANDLE_NAMES macro). |
82 | 90 | ||
83 | Your mission, should you accept it, is to try finding out what | 91 | Your mission, should you accept it, is to try finding out what |
84 | those entries are for, by reading/writing random values from/to those | 92 | those entries are for, by reading/writing random values from/to those |
@@ -87,6 +95,9 @@ files and find out what is the impact on your laptop. | |||
87 | Should you find anything interesting, please report it back to me, | 95 | Should you find anything interesting, please report it back to me, |
88 | I will not disavow all knowledge of your actions :) | 96 | I will not disavow all knowledge of your actions :) |
89 | 97 | ||
98 | See also http://www.linux.it/~malattia/wiki/index.php/Sony_drivers for other | ||
99 | useful info. | ||
100 | |||
90 | Bugs/Limitations: | 101 | Bugs/Limitations: |
91 | ----------------- | 102 | ----------------- |
92 | 103 | ||