qfpvajdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm interessted to buy a laptop on which I would like to install > Gentoo GNU/Linux by using 100% all hardware functions of the laptop > for which I have bought.
I've just installed Gentoo on a Sony VAIO VGN-FS740, and I recommend against it. Almost everything in it is well-supported, but one of the most important things is a PiTA. Sony uses some unusual system to handle power management, and there are things the drivers available with the kernel will not handle. Most notably, I could not get control of LCD brightness without installing a driver which is (a) not in portage and (b) AFAICT not in most distros' repositories. If someone hadn't published a portage overlay for it, I would still be struggling with it. From what I've read (which was a lot more than I wanted to, this is the situation with most (all?) of Sony's FS models. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
