Hi again, A suggestion from a fellow Ubuntu forum visitor pointed me to the old posting:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=465491 I figure that information that he requested back then might be relevant and useful for this bug report. So I attach it here also. So, the run of the script gives the following output: (and attached file) s...@svubuntux2:~/Desktop/downloads/vaio_script$ sudo bash ./snc-dsdt.download [sudo] password for sean: Checking and installing tools... Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done dmidecode is already the newest version. The following NEW packages will be installed: acpidump 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 14.8kB of archives. After this operation, 94.2kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ftp.iinet.net.au karmic/universe acpidump 20071116-1 [14.8kB] Fetched 14.8kB in 0s (25.6kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package acpidump. (Reading database ... 143864 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking acpidump (from .../acpidump_20071116-1_i386.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up acpidump (20071116-1) ... Getting model information: Model: VGN-FW35G_B, BIOS: R2050Y0 Dumping the ACPI Differentiated System Description Table (DSDT) Packing and compressing the DSDT... All done, thank-you If you want, you can now remove the acpidump and dmidecode packages using: sudo apt-get remove acpidump dmidecode Please attach the file /tmp/VGN-FW35G_B-R2050Y0.dsdt.tar.gz to a new post in this Ubuntu forums thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=465491 ** Attachment added: "dsdt (ACPI Differentiated System Description Table)" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/41854235/VGN-FW35G_B-R2050Y0.dsdt -- lucid kubuntu sony vaio brightness key doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/498706 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs