Added experimental do apt sources, installed the lastest kernel image and, voi lá, everything is working now, even the keypad is working as Home, End, Pg Up/Down and others when Num Lock isn't activeted. I also had to add radeon firmware from non-free. So I recognize that having the latest Ubuntu installed should be easier for a newbie, mostly because they are early adopters. I am pretty happy that both Fn+Sleep and closing display automaticaly worked suspending the system, which I prefered to change to hybernate, leanving suspend just for short inactivity periods.
User experience is, believe or not, even better than with pre-installed but fully updated Windows 7 (which I kept in case I need any hardware support from Sony). The Sony Vaio Alps Touchpad was getting crazy (at least to my understanding) under Windows 7 after a while. This never happened yet under Debian Squeeze running stock 2.6.37 kernel image. Sound is now good and clear. HDMI sound output is yet to be tested. I'm also using ext4 hopping it will save battery time, which was less than good under windows... I can't say that Sony Vaio VPC EE23EB works with Debian Squeeze OOTB, but upgrading the kernel to the lastest debian package available and installing firmare-linux-non-free was pretty easy. Atenciosamente, Leonardo Ruoso (CE1921JP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] · (11) 3522-9612 · (85) 8787-0312 http://leonardo.ruoso.com · http://twitter.com/LeonardoRuoso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *Leonardo Ruoso *· * *Gerente de Projetos · Analista de Sistemas Comunicação Social/Jornalismo - UFC/2006 · Telecomunicações - ETFCE/1998 *Internet e inovação tecnológica deste 1996* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2011/1/25 Leonardo Ruoso <[email protected]> > I'm trying Squeeze on a new Sony Vaio VPCee23eb. > > Touchpad only worked after adding the i8042.nopnp stuff to > /etc/default/grub. > > But I never noticed before that there is no Sony Manufacturer at the > Keyboard Layout Settings, at least at the Gnome Preferences Keyboard dialog. > > Also, I'd like to know if there's a replacement to the Sony Parser Device > that appears on Windows 7. > > Mute, Volume and Brightness Fn are working OOTB, but not the "projector > on/off" key. What should I do to turn on/off the external monitor? > > Thanks > > > > > Atenciosamente, > > Leonardo Ruoso (CE1921JP) > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > . . . . > [email protected] · (11) 3522-9612 · (85) 8787-0312 > http://leonardo.ruoso.com · http://twitter.com/LeonardoRuoso > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > . . . . > *Leonardo Ruoso *· * *Gerente de Projetos · Analista de Sistemas > Comunicação Social/Jornalismo - UFC/2006 · Telecomunicações - ETFCE/1998 > *Internet e inovação tecnológica deste 1996* > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > . . . . >
