Sony all in one LV series

I got this neat Sony VAIO LV series all-in-one circa 2008. I can get it to boot into knoppix 7.7 and it works pretty well. Interestingly, it uses a slightly different method to set the brightness of the screen.

xbacklight doesn't work telling me that "No outputs have backlight property."

xrandr --output LVDS-1 --brightness 0.85

allows me to set the brightness.


http://askubuntu.com/questions/62249/how-do-you-change-brightness-color-and-sharpness-from-command-line

This Sony is pretty cool, it has a useful feature where the monitor can function as a regular monitor, taking an HDMI input that will drive the screen. I can put the computer in standby with "sudo pm-suspend" and press the HDMI select button on the side to use it as just a monitor.

It's got awesome speakers, probably the best I've heard on a computer.

The 24" 16:10 monitor is pretty good with 1920x1200 resolution. The all-in-one is just a bit on the heavy side at 30+ lbs.

Form Factor
all-in-one
Weight
35.27 lbs


xrandr --verbose
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1200, maximum 8192 x 8192
LVDS-1 connected 1920x1200+0+0 (0x63) normal (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
Identifier: 0x61
Timestamp: 6678072
Subpixel: unknown
Gamma: 1.0:1.0:1.0
Brightness: 0.50
Clones:
CRTC: 0
CRTCs: 0 1
Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000
0.000000 1.000000 0.000000
0.000000 0.000000 1.000000
filter:
dithering depth: 6 bpc
supported: auto, 6 bpc, 8 bpc
dithering mode: off
supported: auto, off, static 2x2, dynamic 2x2
scaling mode: None
supported: None, Full, Center, Full aspect
color vibrance: 150
range: (0, 200)
vibrant hue: 90
range: (0, 180)
1920x1200 (0x63) 154.640MHz -HSync -VSync *current +preferred
h: width 1920 start 1946 end 1998 total 2106 skew 0 clock 73.43KHz
v: height 1200 start 1205 end 1216 total 1225 clock 59.94Hz
1920x1080 (0x64) 173.000MHz -HSync +VSync
h: width 1920 start 2048 end 2248 total 2576 skew 0 clock 67.16KHz
v: height 1080 start 1083 end 1088 total 1120 clock 59.96Hz
...

I wonder what all of this dithering stuff means...is it an 18-bit panel?