Till now Ubuntu has not been able to properly support the ambient light sensor for Sony Vaio laptops to dim the screen and turn on backlight keyboard when necessary. The following patches have now been rendered useless by recent updates.
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://code.google.com/p/vaio-f11-linux/w/list?q=label:State-Solution">http://code.google.com/p/vaio-f11-linux/w/list?q=label:State-Solution</a></div><div><br></div><div>I'm pleading that this be streamlined into 12.04 this is honestly something quite necessary as it does impact a great deal of users who have switched to other distros because they have proper support for ambient light sensors. Can anyone take on this project for the upcoming LTS?</div>