Hi, On Friday 18 April 2003 07:03, Jerome Lyles wrote:
Anyone here using a Sony Vaio notebook with Suse? I would like to know what problems you've had, if any, with the combination.
Did you know there is a mailing list dedicated to Linux on Sony laptops? Check out http://returntonature.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-sony and http://returntonature.com/linux/phpwiki. <cross-posted to linux-sony> I picked up the latest SuSE last week (6 CDs, one DVD) and installed it over the weekend. Here is a small account. For the record: the install took place on a Vaio FX-605. I chose a full install, since I experienced some quircks with upgrading an existing installation before. So I made a backup of my $HOME, popped in the DVD and rebooted. I heard before that getting the initial screen resolution right is important in order to save yourself hassles later on, so in the installation boot screen I chose the 1024x768 resolution. The rest of the installation was really a piece of cake. I kept a note of my previous partitioning scheme and simply used that for the new installation (ReiserFS), taking care not to format /home. Practically all my hardware was correctly autodetected: Athlon kernel got installed, PCMCIA, USB mouse, keypad, screen, sound (via686), DVD/RW/CD combo, videocard, ethernet card (rtl8139too). The exception being the HSF modem, but after installing the HSF software and running hsf-config that was fixed too, and my bubblejet printer: it turned out that selecting BJ-200 in stead of BJ-200ex solved that one. Choosing the locale, time zone, etc. is simple enough. As is the selection of packages. As the packages were being installed I went shopping, when I returned only a few questioned had to be answered (forgot what they were) and I was up and running! To get ACPI to work properly I had to add the ac, battery, fan, button, etc. modules to the list of modules to be loaded at boot time, this I did with the sysconfig editor in YaST2. I also found out that, in order to run VMware, apic must be enabled with the 'apic' boot option. Since that causes a hangup at shutdown (the laptop is not actually powering off) I only use it if I know I'm going to use VMware. In all, I'm very impressed with this release of SuSE and can recommended it to anyone! Regards, Martijn