Caught off guard by screen brightness
Today I was surprised in a very pleasant way. I performed my daily routine of updating my Sony Vaio SZ6, powered by Arch Linux. When I rebooted my laptop a few hours later, I was welcomed by a dimmed screen. That never happened to me before. Don’t get me wrong, I can change my screen brightness but I always had to circumvent a certain bug in xbacklight or the kernel. Not anymore. I suspect the new kernel 2.6.28.2 for fixing the issue. I’m not 100% sure though since there were a lot of updates. Another thumbs up for (Arch) Linux.
This brings me one step closer to a perfect compatible linux setup. Last obstacle is the fingerprint reader I never use. The device itself is supported by libfprint, the library responsible for fingerprint authentication, but Sony modified the firmware to prevent any non-sony software to communicate with it. So far, they succeeded. Let’s hope not for long.