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    Need serious help in getting the Fn keys to work for the Vaio AR using Vista 64

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Bellucci_, Jun 13, 2008.

  1. Bellucci_

    Bellucci_ Newbie

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    Everything so far works fine, but i desperately need to get the Fn keys to work for a Vaio AR770. Please help guys. The laptop itself is not useable if i cant lower the brightness. The screen hurts my eyes. I bought it with 4 gigs of ram so using Vista 32 is a bit unreasonable.

    If there is anyone that could help me, please do. I've seen so many threads where people say they got the Fn keys to work for their models under Vista 64, what about the AR? Thanks guys.
     
    Bellucci_, Jun 13, 2008
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  2. heshanj

    heshanj Notebook Evangelist

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    have u tried contacting sony esupport? they were quite helpful in getting my S buttons working on my vaio SZ, although my problem was i downgraded to XP Pro. they usually direct u to download some apps/drivers for ur OS and machine. might help
     
    heshanj, Jun 13, 2008
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    Kaloo Notebook Enthusiast

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    Obviously the AR need the dmicall.sys to be running so that fn keys work, but vista 64 disable it at startup. We ned a x64 version of dmicall.sys for it to wortk.
     
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  4. Bellucci_

    Bellucci_ Newbie

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    Yes I have heard of this "dmicall.sys"

    So there is no known 64 bit version out there?
     
    Bellucci_, Jun 13, 2008
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