RE: New Sony VAIO support?
I recommend trying a mounted installation. It is considerably faster and
easier. I tried to do it through the CDROM, but this is the best way for any
system. Now if I could just get ethernet to renew properly out of APM... If
anyone has any ideas, PLEASE do tell. I think it is not renewing the IRQ
when it comes out of APM...
-ks
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stephan [mailto:stephan@ugoods.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 8:45 AM
> To: david.gardner@philips.com; debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: New Sony VAIO support?
>
>
> I have had a difficult time installing Debian on a 505ve laptop.
> The biggest
> problem
> seems to be that hdc (cdrom) loses the interrupt after you
> install the kernel,
> which makes
> it difficult to instll any other packages. Has anyone encountered
> this problem?
>
> david.gardner@philips.com wrote:
>
> > I was wondering if anyone is working on support for the newer Sony
> > VAIO notebooks, as there are a _lot_ of features which are currently
> > unsupported under Debian (and Linux in general, in fact). For
> > example, the function keys which switch to an external monitor, the
> > volume etc (which all used to be supported by the BIOS directly) are
> > now seemingly handled in software, which is only available for
> > Windows... *sigh*
> >
> > Has Sony given any word on whether information will be given out, so
> > that full use of these, otherwise very nice, notebooks can be made
> > under an OS other than Windows?
> >
> > (The PCG-C1XE/S/D and PCG-Z505HX [I think..] both have this problem,
> > and I assume many others do too).
> >
> > <rant>
> > As an aside, I think that Sony have taken a large step backwards by
> > doing this to their customers.
> > </rant>
> >
> > Dave
> >
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