Subject: Re: sony vaio 650
From: David Efflandt (efflandt@xnet.com)
Date: Tue Dec 12 2000 - 04:04:29 GMT+1
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 05:39:16 GMT, Mark Baseggio <mark@baseggio.net> wrote:
>recently purchased this laptop, and i am very frustrated with sony's
>horrible support.
>
>just wanted some advice, it used the Rage Mobility chipset -- which X driver
>should that use? it didn't seem to work with the normal SVGA server, and i
>noticed the chipset was Mach64 so i replaced the server with the Mach64
>server and it works.. but is this the best way to do it? i could also use
>framebuffers .. is this better?
I have an older F450 with Neomagic video, so I cannot help with yours,
but I do have the same sound chip.
>also the laptop has a yamaha ds-xg sound card.. what module does this use?
>it's not auto-detected for some reason.. (under RH 7.0)
Even RH6.1 detected it, but had no support for it. You either need the
Alsa drivers, or somewhat easier commercial drivers are available from
www.opensound.com ($30 US).
>i guess there is no hope in getting a conexant soft56 modem working?
Probably not, unless you are running kernel 2.2.14 and understand French.
I use a Zoom pc card modem. They do not specifically support Linux, but
it was the best I could find when I needed one while on the road and it
works fine.
>any suggestions on dealing with acpi?
You should be able to suspend with apm -s, but maybe not standby or
hyberinate. Even Win98se will not hyberinate unless it boots as the
active boot partition. I have LILO on a /boot partition, with lilo.conf
set up to be able to switch the active boot, but Win will still not
hyberinate until I actually boot again from it.
I have not tried kernel 2.4.x yet to see what it has in the way of ACPI
support.
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