FC1 on a VAIO

[Michael P. Soulier]

    Hey people,

    I while back I installed RedHat 8.0 on my Sony VAIO, and it
automagickally detected my pcmcia CD-ROM with no problems at all. I was
quite disappointed to find that FC1 failed to do so. When prompted to
select a driver for it, none of the pcmcia drivers on the list worked. 

    We would seem to need a little regression in this release for
laptops. Let me know if I can help.

    Cheers,
    Mike

-- 
Michael P. Soulier <michael_soulier(a)mitel.com&gt;, 613-592-2122 x2522
6000/6010/60* Development, Mitel Networks Corporation
"...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount
of nerd-like effort."  -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix

[Jonathan C. Sitte]

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Michael P. Soulier wrote:
|     Hey people,
|
|     I while back I installed RedHat 8.0 on my Sony VAIO, and it
| automagickally detected my pcmcia CD-ROM with no problems at all. I was
| quite disappointed to find that FC1 failed to do so. When prompted to
| select a driver for it, none of the pcmcia drivers on the list worked.
|
|     We would seem to need a little regression in this release for
| laptops. Let me know if I can help.

I had a simular issue with FC1 from RH9. Memory stick on my Sony
PCG-V505BX was not recognized from install. I had to manually add it in
my fstab.
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[Tim Kossack]

Am Sam, den 08.11.2003 schrieb Michael P. Soulier um 02:10:
>      Hey people,
>  
>      I while back I installed RedHat 8.0 on my Sony VAIO, and it
>  automagickally detected my pcmcia CD-ROM with no problems at all. I was
>  quite disappointed to find that FC1 failed to do so. When prompted to
>  select a driver for it, none of the pcmcia drivers on the list worked.  
i've a sony vaio z600lek (also with pccard-cdrom), and i was also
pleasantly surprised that rh8 detected and installed from it flawlessly.
sadly, rh9 didn't recognize it at installation, and i can't use/mount it
under rh9/xd2 (as well as the usb-floppy-got rh9 going via hd-install).
i had hoped that this would get fixed in rh10/fc1/2 (someone filed a
bugreport), but obviously it didn't. 
i've seen that in the fc1-release-notes there's a passage about
installation on vaio-notebooks:

"Some Sony VAIO® notebook systems may experience problems installing
Fedora Core from CD-ROM. If this happens, restart the installation
process and add the following option to the boot command line:

pci=off ide1=0x180,0x386

This option allows the installation to proceed normally; any devices not
detected due to the use of this option will be configured the first time
Fedora Core is booted."

does someone know if this works (i won't install fc1)?

[Michael P. Soulier]

On 08/11/03 Tim Kossack did say:

>  "Some Sony VAIO?? notebook systems may experience problems
> installing
>  Fedora Core from CD-ROM. If this happens, restart the installation
>  process and add the following option to the boot command line:
>  
>  pci=off ide1=0x180,0x386
>  
>  This option allows the installation to proceed normally; any devices not
>  detected due to the use of this option will be configured the first time
>  Fedora Core is booted." 
    I used ide2=0x180 to install Debian. I'm trying this now, and it
seems to work. Fedora is installing now. I'll bring up any problems. 

    Thanks!

    BTW, anyone know how to configure the LCD->VGA port switching? It
seems to not be fully implemented in hardware. 

    Cheers,
    Mike

-- 
Michael P. Soulier <michael_soulier(a)mitel.com&gt;, 613-592-2122 x2522
6000/6010/60* Development, Mitel Networks Corporation
"...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount
of nerd-like effort."  -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix

[Tim Kossack]

Am Sam, den 08.11.2003 schrieb Michael P. Soulier um 02:10:
>      Hey people,
>  
>      I while back I installed RedHat 8.0 on my Sony VAIO, and it
>  automagickally detected my pcmcia CD-ROM with no problems at all. I was
>  quite disappointed to find that FC1 failed to do so. When prompted to
>  select a driver for it, none of the pcmcia drivers on the list worked.  
i've a sony vaio z600lek (also with pccard-cdrom), and i was also
pleasantly surprised that rh8 detected and installed from it flawlessly.
sadly, rh9 didn't recognize it at installation, and i can't use/mount it
under rh9/xd2 (as well as the usb-floppy-got rh9 going via hd-install).
i had hoped that this would get fixed in rh10/fc1/2 (someone filed a
bugreport), but obviously it didn't. 
i've seen that in the fc1-release-notes there's a passage about
installation on vaio-notebooks:

"Some Sony VAIO® notebook systems may experience problems installing
Fedora Core from CD-ROM. If this happens, restart the installation
process and add the following option to the boot command line:

pci=off ide1=0x180,0x386

This option allows the installation to proceed normally; any devices not
detected due to the use of this option will be configured the first time
Fedora Core is booted."

does someone know if this works (i won't install fc1)?

[Jim Hays]

I installed FC1 on a Vaio.  It was easy and works better than any distro that 
I have put on that machine.

The install went very smooth.



-- 

Jim Hays
Technology Director
Monticello CUSD#25
Monticello, IL  61856



Quoting "Michael P. Soulier" <michael_soulier(a)mitel.com&gt;:

>      Hey people,
>  
>      I while back I installed RedHat 8.0 on my Sony VAIO, and it
>  automagickally detected my pcmcia CD-ROM with no problems at all. I was
>  quite disappointed to find that FC1 failed to do so. When prompted to
>  select a driver for it, none of the pcmcia drivers on the list worked. 
>  
>      We would seem to need a little regression in this release for
>  laptops. Let me know if I can help.
>  
>      Cheers,
>      Mike
>  
>  -- 
>  Michael P. Soulier <michael_soulier(a)mitel.com&gt;, 613-592-2122 x2522
>  6000/6010/60* Development, Mitel Networks Corporation
>  "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount
>  of nerd-like effort."  -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix
>  
>  
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>

[Z]

Works great on mine, except that the Fn key doesn't work. It was a
*bitch* to make it work in XP as well.
Never tried the internal modem. Probably useless.

On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 17:38, Jim Hays wrote:
>  I installed FC1 on a Vaio.  It was easy and works better than any
> distro that 
>  I have put on that machine.
>  
>  The install went very smooth.
>  
>

[Matheesha]

On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 05:04, Z wrote:
>  Works great on mine, except that the Fn key doesn't work. It was
> a
>  *bitch* to make it work in XP as well. 
Are you trying to use the hotkeys for adjusting the volume, brightness
etc..? In Windows, VAIO laptops require some Sony software installed
(somethng like Sony hotkey utils or similar) which install some drivers
that allow these hotkey combinations to work. Correct me if I am wrong
but unless there is a linux equivalent, I doubt you will get this to
work.

HTH

M@

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:38:42PM +0000, Matheesha wrote:
>  On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 05:04, Z wrote:
>  > Works great on mine, except that the Fn key doesn't work. It was a
>  > *bitch* to make it work in XP as well.
>  
>  Are you trying to use the hotkeys for adjusting the volume, brightness
>  etc..? In Windows, VAIO laptops require some Sony software installed
>  (somethng like Sony hotkey utils or similar) which install some drivers
>  that allow these hotkey combinations to work. Correct me if I am wrong
>  but unless there is a linux equivalent, I doubt you will get this to
>  work. 
That'll likely be the sonypi module.
There are a bunch of tools that work with /dev/sonypi, I'm not sure
which (if any) of these we ship, but freshmeat will no doubt have them
listed.

		Dave

[Z]

Ie been playing with sonypi, no luck so far. The driver from sony (for
Win2k/XP) was really hard to get going as well...

On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 16:19, Dave Jones wrote:
>  On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:38:42PM +0000, Matheesha wrote:
>   > On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 05:04, Z wrote:
>   > > Works great on mine, except that the Fn key doesn't work. It was a
>   > > *bitch* to make it work in XP as well.
>   > 
>   > Are you trying to use the hotkeys for adjusting the volume, brightness
>   > etc..? In Windows, VAIO laptops require some Sony software installed
>   > (somethng like Sony hotkey utils or similar) which install some drivers
>   > that allow these hotkey combinations to work. Correct me if I am wrong
>   > but unless there is a linux equivalent, I doubt you will get this to
>   > work.
>  
>  That'll likely be the sonypi module.
>  There are a bunch of tools that work with /dev/sonypi, I'm not sure
>  which (if any) of these we ship, but freshmeat will no doubt have them
>  listed.
>  
>  		Dave
>  
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[Elton Woo]

On November 11, 2003 05:38 pm, Matheesha Matheesha 
<m.weerasinghe(a)ntlworld.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 05:04, Z wrote:
>  > Works great on mine, except that the Fn key doesn't work. It was a
>  > *bitch* to make it work in XP as well.
>
>  Are you trying to use the hotkeys for adjusting the volume, brightness
>  etc..? In Windows, VAIO laptops require some Sony software installed
>  (somethng like Sony hotkey utils or similar) which install some drivers
>  that allow these hotkey combinations to work. Correct me if I am wrong
>  but unless there is a linux equivalent, I doubt you will get this to 
 ... if I may
suggest: there is the "lineak" project (search on google
or sourceforge) which is aimed at providing the enablement of the
"Windows" and multimedia keys under linux.

HTH,

Elton ;-) 
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[Taylor, ForrestX]

On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 14:38, Matheesha wrote:
>  On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 05:04, Z wrote:
>  > Works great on mine, except that the Fn key doesn't work. It was a
>  > *bitch* to make it work in XP as well.
>  
>  Are you trying to use the hotkeys for adjusting the volume, brightness
>  etc..? In Windows, VAIO laptops require some Sony software installed
>  (somethng like Sony hotkey utils or similar) which install some drivers
>  that allow these hotkey combinations to work. Correct me if I am wrong
>  but unless there is a linux equivalent, I doubt you will get this to
>  work. 
I have been using a modified sjog rpm that I can post if anyone is
interested.  It uses the SJog wheel to scroll, and when pressed, you can
change the brightness, volume, etc.

Forrest

[Jonathan C. Sitte]

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Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
| I have been using a modified sjog rpm that I can post if anyone is
| interested.  It uses the SJog wheel to scroll, and when pressed, you can
| change the brightness, volume, etc.

One for VAIO laptops without the jog but using Fn keys would be nice
too. I think if someone wrote a universal Redhat app for all laptops and
their brightness etc would be super.
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[Jonathan C. Sitte]

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Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
| I have been using a modified sjog rpm that I can post if anyone is
| interested.  It uses the SJog wheel to scroll, and when pressed, you can
| change the brightness, volume, etc.

Right now I am using spicctrl which I have the spec file for FC1. Just
download the source and use this spec to build it for your boxen. Here
is the link to the source and my spec file:
http://spop.free.fr/sonypi/spicctrl-1.6.tar.bz2
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Digital Arts & Computer Technology
http://www.staticnull.org/jcsitte/
917.414.2559 M-F 8AM-10PM

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Name: spicctrl
Summary: Sony Vaio SPIC Control Program
Version: 1.6
Release: 3
License: GPL
Group: Applications/System
URL: http://popies.net/sonypi/
Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
BuildRoot: %{_builddir}/%{name}-root

%description
This utility allows one to query and set a variety of parameters on your
Sony Vaio laptop computer, including:

 * AC Power status
 * Battery status 
 * Screen brightness
 * Bluetooth device power status

%prep
%setup -q

%build
make

%clean
rm -fr %{buildroot}

%install
rm -fr %{buildroot}
mkdir -p %{buildroot}/usr/sbin
install %{_builddir}/%{name}-%{version}/spicctrl %{buildroot}/usr/sbin

%post
if [ ! -c /dev/sonypi ]; then
	rm -f /dev/sonypi
	mknod /dev/sonypi c 10 250
fi
grep 'alias char-major-10-250 sonypi' /etc/modules.conf > /dev/null
RETVAL=$?
if [ $RETVAL -ne 0 ]; then
	echo 'alias char-major-10-250 sonypi' >> /etc/modules.conf
	echo 'options sonypi minor=250' >> /etc/modules.conf
fi

%files
%defattr(-,root,root)
/usr/sbin/spicctrl
%doc AUTHORS LICENSE CHANGES

%changelog
* Sun Nov 16 2003 Jonathan C. Sitte <jcsitte(a)staticnull.org&gt;
- Spec file cleanup

* Sat Nov 15 2003 Jonathan C. Sitte <jcsitte(a)staticnull.org&gt;
- Initial spec file

[Z]

I'll try it, thanks.

On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 17:27, Jonathan C. Sitte wrote:
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>  Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
>  | I have been using a modified sjog rpm that I can post if anyone is
>  | interested.  It uses the SJog wheel to scroll, and when pressed, you can
>  | change the brightness, volume, etc.
>  
>  Right now I am using spicctrl which I have the spec file for FC1. Just
>  download the source and use this spec to build it for your boxen. Here
>  is the link to the source and my spec file:
>  http://spop.free.fr/sonypi/spicctrl-1.6.tar.bz2
>  - --
>  Jonathan C. Sitte <jcsitte(a)staticnull.org&gt;
>  Digital Arts & Computer Technology
>  http://www.staticnull.org/jcsitte/
>  917.414.2559 M-F 8AM-10PM
>  
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>  
>  ______________________________________________________________________
>  Name: spicctrl
>  Summary: Sony Vaio SPIC Control Program
>  Version: 1.6
>  Release: 3
>  License: GPL
>  Group: Applications/System
>  URL: http://popies.net/sonypi/
>  Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
>  BuildRoot: %{_builddir}/%{name}-root
>  
>  %description
>  This utility allows one to query and set a variety of parameters on your
>  Sony Vaio laptop computer, including:
>  
>   * AC Power status
>   * Battery status 
>   * Screen brightness
>   * Bluetooth device power status
>  
>  %prep
>  %setup -q
>  
>  %build
>  make
>  
>  %clean
>  rm -fr %{buildroot}
>  
>  %install
>  rm -fr %{buildroot}
>  mkdir -p %{buildroot}/usr/sbin
>  install %{_builddir}/%{name}-%{version}/spicctrl %{buildroot}/usr/sbin
>  
>  %post
>  if [ ! -c /dev/sonypi ]; then
>  	rm -f /dev/sonypi
>  	mknod /dev/sonypi c 10 250
>  fi
>  grep 'alias char-major-10-250 sonypi' /etc/modules.conf > /dev/null
>  RETVAL=$?
>  if [ $RETVAL -ne 0 ]; then
>  	echo 'alias char-major-10-250 sonypi' >> /etc/modules.conf
>  	echo 'options sonypi minor=250' >> /etc/modules.conf
>  fi
>  
>  %files
>  %defattr(-,root,root)
>  /usr/sbin/spicctrl
>  %doc AUTHORS LICENSE CHANGES
>  
>  %changelog
>  * Sun Nov 16 2003 Jonathan C. Sitte <jcsitte(a)staticnull.org&gt;
>  - Spec file cleanup
>  
>  * Sat Nov 15 2003 Jonathan C. Sitte <jcsitte(a)staticnull.org&gt;
>  - Initial spec file

[Z]

Works fantastically. Many thanks.

On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 17:27, Jonathan C. Sitte wrote:
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>  
>  Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
>  | I have been using a modified sjog rpm that I can post if anyone is
>  | interested.  It uses the SJog wheel to scroll, and when pressed, you can
>  | change the brightness, volume, etc.
>  
>  Right now I am using spicctrl which I have the spec file for FC1. Just
>  download the source and use this spec to build it for your boxen. Here
>  is the link to the source and my spec file:
>  http://spop.free.fr/sonypi/spicctrl-1.6.tar.bz2
>  - --
>  Jonathan C. Sitte <jcsitte(a)staticnull.org&gt;
>  Digital Arts & Computer Technology
>  http://www.staticnull.org/jcsitte/
>  917.414.2559 M-F 8AM-10PM
>  
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>  
>  ______________________________________________________________________
>  Name: spicctrl
>  Summary: Sony Vaio SPIC Control Program
>  Version: 1.6
>  Release: 3
>  License: GPL
>  Group: Applications/System
>  URL: http://popies.net/sonypi/
>  Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
>  BuildRoot: %{_builddir}/%{name}-root
>  
>  %description
>  This utility allows one to query and set a variety of parameters on your
>  Sony Vaio laptop computer, including:
>  
>   * AC Power status
>   * Battery status 
>   * Screen brightness
>   * Bluetooth device power status
>  
>  %prep
>  %setup -q
>  
>  %build
>  make
>  
>  %clean
>  rm -fr %{buildroot}
>  
>  %install
>  rm -fr %{buildroot}
>  mkdir -p %{buildroot}/usr/sbin
>  install %{_builddir}/%{name}-%{version}/spicctrl %{buildroot}/usr/sbin
>  
>  %post
>  if [ ! -c /dev/sonypi ]; then
>  	rm -f /dev/sonypi
>  	mknod /dev/sonypi c 10 250
>  fi
>  grep 'alias char-major-10-250 sonypi' /etc/modules.conf > /dev/null
>  RETVAL=$?
>  if [ $RETVAL -ne 0 ]; then
>  	echo 'alias char-major-10-250 sonypi' >> /etc/modules.conf
>  	echo 'options sonypi minor=250' >> /etc/modules.conf
>  fi
>  
>  %files
>  %defattr(-,root,root)
>  /usr/sbin/spicctrl
>  %doc AUTHORS LICENSE CHANGES
>  
>  %changelog
>  * Sun Nov 16 2003 Jonathan C. Sitte <jcsitte(a)staticnull.org&gt;
>  - Spec file cleanup
>  
>  * Sat Nov 15 2003 Jonathan C. Sitte <jcsitte(a)staticnull.org&gt;
>  - Initial spec file