Change brightness on Sony Vaio

[Jammers]

Does anyone know how to change the brightness on a Sony Vaio. There’s and Fn key, and F5 has the brightness symbol, but I’ve tried all sorts of things, and can’t change it. Any ideas?

[Patty_O_Furniture]

Fn+F5 should bring up a brightness scale on the display, then use the arrow up/down keys to adjust. Or maybe it was the left/right arrow keys… don’t quite remember, but I am quite sure that Fn+F5 is supposed to bring up the adjustment image.

I see Google reports some glitches with the adjustment if you’re running Linux:

If you have a 505, you probably don’t need this section. But those of us with the micro-laptops (SR and picturebook) have software function keys which don’t do anything unless you enable function key mode in the sonypi driver. (Note, I’m talking about keys like Fn-F5, which changes screen brightness on Windows and is labelled as such on the Sony keyboard.)

From http://www.shallowsky.com/vaiotricks.html

[honkytonkwillie]

My Vaio laotop has a little mouse scroll-wheel that you spin to adjust brightness after doing the Fn-F5 combo.