Sebastian Gaul:
My script is not perfect : it overides the applet (in fact it does exactly what 
the applet does in a different language).
But i think it still a good thing because :
1- it better respect the security
2- with it Gnome brightness preferences works (when you swith form 
sector/battery the light changes)

Laurent Almeras:
Firstly thanks for all your work...
Secondly, setting the brightness for VAIO seems to be a common problem (on 
ubuntu's french forum), what we have done so far should works out of the box 
for smartdimmer users !
But unfortunately many users still have to use xbacklight or even software 
solution. I think we can easily provide a solution for them too.
Thinking a bit about it, it seems to me that the best way is just to use a 
common platform for all VAIO users in hal which will call acpi.
This way it will allows every users to set his brightness correctly (or if not  
with a software implementation).
Advantages :
1- more flexible (people will just have to change a variable to switch between 
different solution ("echo", xbacklight, smartdimmer,  nvclock)
2- it will reduce the complexity of the problem because there will have only 
one file or two for everyone
3- you can make it for every vaio users 
Disvantages :
1- it makes hal dépendant of acpi
2- others ideas that i haven't been thinking of...

Thirdly and Finally, i'm asking you if you're interrested in it so that
i can count on you to "package" it and helping me if i got a problem.

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LCD brightness setting doesn't work with Sony Vaio VGN-S5M
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