Quick brightness guide for Jaunty

This little guide is faster an easier version of previous brightness how to. Since Jaunty already have sony-laptop patch included, we need to patch our DSDT bios table only and override default one with patched, while kernel is loading. I saw many people have problems with DSDT compiling, so I removed dsdt-error.patch patches from pack, and changed it with another line in terminal.

I have made a script which will make all what needed, you just need to select right patch for your model. Download new patches pack. Unpack it, then pop up your terminal and go into that directory, where you’ve unpacked it. There is 3 patches included dsdt-ati-fix-fw1x.patch, dsdt-ati-fix-fw2x.patch, dsdt-ati-fix-fw3x.patch. If you have FW3x(x) model, then use dsdt-ati-fix-fw3x.patch and so on for FW1x(x)/FW2x(x). Ok, you’ve made your choice, now just type this in terminal:

Ok, I have changed script and make him choose the right patch for you, just type this in terminal then:

sudo ./dsdt-patch

That’s all 🙂

Here is a source code of that script, for those who interested:

#!/bin/bash
# by Anton Veretenenko
# version: 0.2

patch_temp_dir=vaio_fw_patch
isroot=`whoami`

if [ ! $# -eq 0 ]
then
echo “Use: sudo ./dsdt-patch”
exit
fi

if [ ! “$isroot” == “root” ]
then
echo “Error: Make sure you run this script with sudo”
exit
fi

echo “Creating temp directory”
mkdir “/tmp/$patch_temp_dir”

if [ ! -x /usr/sbin/dmidecode ]
then
# if dmidecode isn’t found, let’s install it too
echo “Installing dmidecode”
apt-get install dmidecode
else
echo “dmidecode found”
fi

isfw1=`dmidecode –type system | grep -i -c -P -e “Product Name: VGN-FW(1).*”`
isfw2=`dmidecode –type system | grep -i -c -P -e “Product Name: VGN-FW(2).*”`
isfw3=`dmidecode –type system | grep -i -c -P -e “Product Name: VGN-FW(3).*”`
isfw4=`dmidecode –type system | grep -i -c -P -e “Product Name: VGN-FW(4).*”`
if [ “$isfw1” == “1” ]
then
patch_file=dsdt-ati-fix-fw1x.patch
elif [ “$isfw2” == “1” ]
then
patch_file=dsdt-ati-fix-fw2x.patch
elif [ “$isfw3” == “1” ]
then
patch_file=dsdt-ati-fix-fw3x.patch
elif [ “$isfw4” == “1” ]
then
patch_file=dsdt-ati-fix-fw4x.patch
else
echo “Could not select the right patch for you, does it FW model? Contact me.”
rm -rfd “/tmp/$patch_temp_dir/”
exit
fi

if [ ! -r “$patch_file” ]
then
echo “Error: Could not read $patch_file file”
rm -rfd “/tmp/$patch_temp_dir/”
exit
else
echo “Selected $patch_file patch for you”
fi

cp “$patch_file” “/tmp/$patch_temp_dir/”
cd “/tmp/$patch_temp_dir”

if [ ! -x /usr/bin/iasl ]
then
# if iasl isn’t found, let’s install it
echo “Installing iasl”
apt-get install iasl
else
echo “iasl found”
fi

if [ ! -x /usr/bin/acpidump ]
then
# if acpidump isn’t found, let’s install it too
echo “Installing acpidump”
apt-get install acpidump
else
echo “acpidump found”
fi

if [ ! -x /usr/bin/patch ]
then
echo “Installing patch command”
apt-get install patch
else
echo “patch command found”
fi

echo “Dumping DSDT table to DSDT.aml”
acpidump -b -t DSDT -o DSDT.aml
if [ ! $? -eq 0 ]
then
# if acpidump failed, show error
echo “acpidump failed”
rm -rfd “/tmp/$patch_temp_dir/”
exit
fi

echo “Decompiling DSDT.aml to DSDT.dsl”
iasl -d DSDT.aml
rm DSDT.aml
if [ ! $? -eq 0 ]
then
# if iasl failed, show error
echo “iasl failed”
rm -rfd “/tmp/$patch_temp_dir/”
exit
fi

echo “Patching DSDT.dsl with $patch_file”
patch < "$patch_file" if [ ! $? -eq 0 ] then # if patching failed, show error echo "$patch_file patch failed" rm -rfd "/tmp/$patch_temp_dir/" exit fi echo "Fixing _T_0 errors in DSDT.dsl" sed -i 's/_T_0/T_0/g' DSDT.dsl if [ ! $? -eq 0 ] then # if sed failed, show error echo "_T_0 fixing failed" rm -rfd "/tmp/$patch_temp_dir/" exit fi echo "Compiling patched DSDT" iasl DSDT.dsl if [ -f DSDT.aml ] then echo "Compilation successfull, updating initramfs" cp DSDT.aml /etc/initramfs-tools/ dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-`uname -r` else echo "Error: DSDT compilation error" fi # deleting temp dir rm -rfd "/tmp/$patch_temp_dir/" if [ -f /etc/initramfs-tools/DSDT.aml ] then echo "DSDT patch applied, you should reboot your system now" fi [/sourcecode]