On Saturday 06 April 2002 20:56, Aviram Jenik wrote:
> Anybody tried Linux on a Sony Vaio? (specifically Sony Vaio R505). Two main
> things that not working: Video card and modem. Things that I'd very much
> like to see as well: baterry management and APM support (e.g. hibernation).
>
> - Aviram
I run RH7.2 with all available upgrades on a Sony Vaio PCG-F630 (config is
192Mb RAM, DVD/CD reader, 12GB HD). It has worked since 6.2, however, the
sound card works only since 7.0 or 7.1, and apm only since the latest kernel
update from RH (2.4.9-31). PCMCIA works well ever since I tried; the modem is
HCF and does not yet work on stock kernels. Apparently the drivers were just
released by Connextant, as, I believe, was recently announced on list. I am
not sure if display accelerator works, however, I use the stock SVGA driver
for X.
ONE THING YOU MUST LOOK OUT FOR: my disply didn't work correctly until I tried
the LILO option of vga=791. Only under that option does X work properly.
Otherwise I either had lots of flicker with eventual locking of the screen,
or a squashed, little screen, occupying half the space it should.
Now my turn to ask for help:
I am not sure if the firewire port is supported. Below is an excerpt of lspci
-v, tell me, is it supported? How do I find out?
####### Excerpt of lspci -v ###########
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 80ad
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 9
Memory at 10000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=05, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 10400000-107ff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 10800000-10bff000
I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
00:0a.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 80ad
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 9
Memory at 10001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=09, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 10c00000-10fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 11000000-113ff000
I/O window 0: 00004800-000048ff
I/O window 1: 00004c00-00004cff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
<snip>
00:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments: Unknown device 8020 (prog-if
10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 80ac
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
Memory at fb006000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 1
############# end of output of lspci -v #############
Arie Folger
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