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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