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Sony Vaio VGN-S260
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2 42853 07-15-2005
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Recommended By Average Price Average Rating
100% of reviewers $1,524.50 9.0
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Description: Intel Centrino 735 1.70
512 MB RAM
Hard Disk 60GB
Intel Wireless 2200 b/g
widescreen 13.3"
ATI Radeon Mobility 9200 32MB
Keywords: sony vaio s260
/sbin/lspci output: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4) Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV250 5c61 [Radeon Mobility 9200 M9+] (rev 01)
02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments: Unknown device ac8e
02:04.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments: Unknown device 802e
02:04.3 Unknown mass storage controller: Texas Instruments: Unknown device ac8f
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801BD PRO/100 VE (MOB) Ethernet Controller (rev 83)
02:0b.0 Network controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 4220 (rev 05)


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Old 10-21-2004, 11:43 AM   #1
sNicker
 
Registered: Oct 2003
Distribution: Slackware 9.1, Slackware 10
Posts: 33

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $1,899.00 | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.8.1
Distribution: Slackware 10



Issues:

- To enable sound you have to mute the 'external amplifier' in alsamixer

- I used with success the driver from http://ipw2200.sf.net to get wireless working

- Need to use the daemons from http://popies.net/sonypi/ to use some features (like regulating screen brightness)
 
Old 07-15-2005, 04:07 PM   #2
uberlaff
 
Registered: Feb 2005
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 0

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $1,150.00 | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.10
Distribution: Ubuntu Hoary


13.3" Widescreen
512MB RAM
60 GB hard drive
1.7 Pentium M
Intel 2200 B/G wireless
ATI Radeon 9200 Mobility 32MB

This laptop is 99% compatible with Ubuntu Hoary straight out of the box. I haven't had to load one driver for the laptop since I got it. Even the ATI 3D drivers work after first boot. The only thing that doesn't work and I haven't tried to get to work are the programable buttons above the keyboard. If your looking for a thin and light laptop with a great screen. This is your laptop.
 




  



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