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Description:
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Intel Pentium III 450 MHz (Coppermine, 256KB cache)
256MB RAM
12GB Hard Drive (IBM-DARA-212000)
Toshiba DVD-ROM (TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2202)
Yamaha DS-XG sound (YMF744)
Neomagic video (NM2200)
Kawasaki LSI Ethernet (via USB port replicator)
Sony Corporation CXD3222 i.LINK Controller (rev 2)
Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 1) (1 Hub)
Rockwell International HCF 56k Data/Fax Modem
Notes:
*I can't verify that the modem works (or doesn't).
*My sound card appears to be dying. Weeks before install I lost sound in a powerfail incident. Shortly before install I was able to get sound when booting from Knoppix. During Slackware install the sound card was detected and worked when booted in Slack. After install I (dual) booted into W98 and sound worked there. A week, or so, afterwards I have no sound when in Slack (unknown if there is sound in W98).
*Power management issues. I believe this laptop supports ACPI but has a BIOS older than 99' (which is apparently the magic cutoff point). The issues I have are with the LCD during suspend and powerdown. When the machine goes into suspend the screen will blank, but the backlight will remain on. When doing a powerdown (shutdown) the machine will go through all the shutdown steps but will remain on at the end (screen displays shutdown messages).
*Batteries. I have two batteries, neither will take, or hold, a charge. This is an issue from well before install.
*Kawaskai Ethernet had tendency to "go out to lunch".
*LCD has common hw issue that can cause it to go crazy. From my googling this is usually caused by a corroded connector on the back of the display (at about the "I" in Vaio). The problem can be temporarily resolved by flexing the screen. This problem mostly surfaces when opening the screen (or changing screen angle). See http://www.de-srv.com/linux/sony-screen.txt for more info.
*Otherwise life is good with 2.4.26 in Slackware 10.0
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Sony Vaio PCG F370 F3xx F-series Slackware
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/sbin/lspci output:
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$ lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 806f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
Memory at 40000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=16M]
Capabilities: <available only to root>
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 128
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
Memory behind bridge: fe800000-fecfffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: fd000000-fdffffff
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
I/O ports at fcf0 [size=16]
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
I/O ports at fcc0 [size=32]
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
00:08.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Sony Corporation CXD3222 i.LINK Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 8071
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
Memory at fedff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Memory at fedffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>
00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-744B [DS-1S Audio Controller] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 8072
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
Memory at fedf0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
I/O ports at fc40 [size=64]
I/O ports at fcec [size=4]
Capabilities: <available only to root>
00:0a.0 Class 0708: Rockwell International HCF 56k Data/Fax Modem (rev 01)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Modem
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
Memory at fede0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=64K]
I/O ports at fce0 [disabled] [size=8]
Capabilities: <available only to root>
00:0c.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c478 (rev 80)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 8073
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 9
Memory at 10000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=05, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 10400000-107ff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 10800000-10bff000
I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
00:0c.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c478 (rev 80)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 8073
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 9
Memory at 10001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=09, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 10c00000-10fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 11000000-113ff000
I/O window 0: 00004800-000048ff
I/O window 1: 00004c00-00004cff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2200 [MagicGraph 256AV] (rev 20) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 8070
Flags: bus master, fast Back2Back, medium devsel, latency 128, IRQ 9
Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at fe800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Memory at fec00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: <available only to root>
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08-30-2004, 03:42 PM
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Registered: Jul 2004
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 41
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 0
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Sound:
A trip to http://alsa-project.org/ and running 'alsaconf' cleared up the sound issue.
Shutdown/Powerdown:
(I'm using the slackware bare.acpi kernel)
The kernel (see dmesg) reports the BIOS as too old and directs you to do the following to enable it:
append an "acpi=force" kernel parameter at boot
The laptop will now properly powerdown during shutdown.
(Googling suggests an "apm=power-off" boot param, which has no effect on this machine/setup.)
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02-13-2005, 10:52 PM
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Registered: Jul 2004
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 41
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 0
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I've just discovered an apparent solution to my LCD backlight issue. That issue being that the LCD backlight would not go off while the machine was running, aside from when the lid was closed (lid switch still worked). My default X server configuration (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) seems to have been a little deficient.
Adding this line:
Option "DPMS" "on"
... to the "Monitor" section of the config, and restarting X, cleared up this issue for me.
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