hello,
I m new on this forum but have used mandriva since 10.1 now. I just have some basic knowledge of linux.
I have a sony fs980 laptop with mandriva 2008 on it. I use the new sony-laptop module which replaces sonypi. I have set the module to load at boot (and lsmod shows it does), and I have configured all the text files commanding the brightness (brightness, brightness_default...) to set the lowest brightness according to the manual found there : http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/Documenta...txt?v=linux-2.6
BUT, every time I boot the brightness is at its maximum . I can then go to the /sys/class/backlight/sony/brightness file to find that the zero value is written. When I save this file, the brightness comes to the minimum as it should be. I can also go in the configuration of Kpowersave, move the brightness cursor and it works.
I also noticed that when I do some other things, the brightness increases to the maximum unexpectedly. Among others : when I watch a video in firefox with mplayer or when I modify some items in the KDE control center (don t remember which ones). Then when I look into the brightness text file, it shows nothing or the right value(0in my case). Again, entering 0 and saving the file works.
It feels like some other program was controling the brightness instead of the sony-laptop module. It is not sonypi because it is not loaded. Before when I didn t use sonypi or sony-laptop, at boot, I remember the brightness was the same as the one I set previously under windows.
This problem is killing my eyes and it s annoying to reset the brightness as i want every time. If some experienced users know the reason of this, I would appreciate your help.