Hi all, just wondering if anybody had installed 8.2 on a recent (ACPI) Sony Vaio and, if so, whether everything is working OK. TIA sjb
Hi all,
just wondering if anybody had installed 8.2 on a recent (ACPI) Sony
Vaio
and, if so, whether everything is working OK.
My Vaio PGC-F801A is very happy with 8.2 You may want to use YAST2 to look at the default settings, which are nicely done for safety, but you may want to change a couple of them to enable a few energy saving measures. Have Fun, Jim -- James McBoyle "...the Goddess could not spend all Her time persuading the Kings and Queens of the world of the idiocy of war. Therefore She invented tacticians..." (Diane Duane. The Door into Shadow)
On Monday 19 May 2003 01:30, sjb wrote:
Hi all,
just wondering if anybody had installed 8.2 on a recent (ACPI) Sony Vaio and, if so, whether everything is working OK.
I recently upgraded from 8.1 to 8.2 on a PCG-GRX580, works fine. In fact, with acpid loaded, klaptopdaemon works under KDE now to show battery/AC status. Go for it. Mark Almeida
The Wizard wrote:
I recently upgraded from 8.1 to 8.2 on a PCG-GRX580, works fine. In fact, with acpid loaded, klaptopdaemon works under KDE now to show battery/AC status. Go for it.
Thanks for the info .. and ACPI is definitely working? correctly? It's not that i doubt you - it's just that I know of one machine like mine that had a dodgy ACPI installation which caused it to overheat and die. sjb
On Monday 19 May 2003 09:48, sjb wrote:
The Wizard wrote:
I recently upgraded from 8.1 to 8.2 on a PCG-GRX580, works fine. In fact, with acpid loaded, klaptopdaemon works under KDE now to show battery/AC status. Go for it.
Thanks for the info .. and ACPI is definitely working? correctly?
All on-board peripherals (network, sound, USB) work correctly, and the /proc/acpi entries are correct. klaptop can detect correctly charge state of the batteries, which is critical for me. Since I don't use suspend/hibernate, I can't say if they would work or not. I have not ever had heat/fan/CPU problems, even under 8.1. Under 8.1, I never got klaptop to work even with acpid loaded, so I used akpi, which displayed values for temps, etc, no problems. Here is what my boot messages look like: Loading ACPI modules (ac fan processor battery thermal button ) <6>ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (on-line) <6>ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2, 2 performance states, 8 throttling states) <6>ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present) <6>ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT2] (battery absent) <6>ACPI: Thermal Zone [ATF0] (39 C) <6>ACPI: Lid Switch [LID] <6>ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB] I have the DVD/CD-RW drive working in ide mode, rather than SCSI-emulation and burning works just fine with cdrecord. I use Xine for watching DVDs (I did have to download libdvd and libcss from packman.de), and xmms for playing CDs. Everything just works. Mark Almeida
On Monday 19 May 2003 09:59, The Wizard wrote:
Re: [SLE] 8.2 on a Vaio
Hi. (a little off the beaten path) Did you ever try recompiling your kernel for acpi support for a laptop? I'm still using 8.1 and my Thinkpad isn't playing well with the klaptopdaemon. I was just wondering if you or anyone else had. peace. robt.
On Monday 19 May 2003 17:40, Robt. Lount wrote:
On Monday 19 May 2003 09:59, The Wizard wrote:
Re: [SLE] 8.2 on a Vaio
Hi. (a little off the beaten path) Did you ever try recompiling your kernel for acpi support for a laptop? I'm still using 8.1 and my Thinkpad isn't playing well with the klaptopdaemon. I was just wondering if you or anyone else had.
peace. robt.
Robert - I did try with the 2.4.19 SuSE kernel recompiling with the options klaptop said were missing; no difference. With 8.2, loading acpid allows klaptop to at least monitor AC/battery state, although the setup offers no help configuring suspend/hibernate/etc... Mark Almeida
The Wizard wrote:
Loading ACPI modules (ac fan processor battery thermal button ) <6>ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (on-line) <6>ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2, 2 performance states, 8 throttling states) <6>ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present) <6>ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT2] (battery absent) <6>ACPI: Thermal Zone [ATF0] (39 C) <6>ACPI: Lid Switch [LID] <6>ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
Excellent - I suppose I have no more excuses to not try 8.2 on my machine. *crosses fingers* Thanks for the information! sjb
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