NDAS driver on Ubuntu Karmic 9.10

loxley — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:44:35 +0000

I just bought a ASRock ION 330 and had some problems installing the NDAS driver with Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10. It seems that the NDAS source doesn’t compile very well on the kernel shipped with Ubuntu 9.10. Luckily I found some patched packages for AMD64 when browsing through the wiki at http://code.ximeta.com. I really didn’t put much faith in that it would work, but surprisingly it worked right out of the box!

Regarding the ASRock ION 330 I must say that it’s a wonderful piece of computer, so small in size but so much under the “hood”. Go buy one!

Sony Vaio brightness on Ubuntu Karmic solved

loxley — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:19:02 +0000

Yes! Finally Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) recognizes the FN keys + F5 and F6 on my Sony Vaio AR71S. This has been annoying me ever since the Intrepid release. It still doesn’t work right out of the box because you need to add sony-brightness-up and sony-brightness-down in /etc/acpi/events, but it’s no big deal as long as the key events are recognized.

To get the key events just use acpi_listen and press down FN+F5, it will output something like this:
sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 00000010 (key combo pressed) sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 0000003b (key combo released)

And when pressing FN+F6 we get this:
sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 00000011 (key combo pressed) sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 0000003b (key combo released)

These events we’ll put in sony-brightness-up/down and my down script looks like this:
event=sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 00000010 action=/usr/bin/nvclock -S -12

I’m using nvclock because when using smartdimmer the intervals where just to low when dimming. I put a interval in nvclock of -12 which is reasonable. That’s it!

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NDAS driver on Ubuntu Karmic 9.10

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