Sony-Vaio-Intel Cantiga Integrated Graphics Drivers
 

Hi,

I Installed Fedora 10 on a Sony Vaio Laptop "VGN-150J". All hardware works out of the box, apart from the VGA Card.

The output from lsusb command, shows the following card was detected.
Intel Corporation Cantiga Integrated Graphics Controller

Anyone with information, on what drivers would enable 3D acceleration on the laptop's VGA.

Thanks.

I didn't find it...

Is the full model designation Vaio NS VGN-501J? I was looking for the specifications for the graphics chip but didn't find them.

If you have or can install the package for "lshw" you can use it with root privileges in a terminal and perhaps find which Intel chipset you have.

Intel has drivers for linux, but there may not be one for your Vaio.

http://intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html

Hi,

many thanks for the reply. I found out the VGA adapter and Fedora 11 seems to resolve the problem with loading the correct driver.
For Future Users with similar problems, VESA drivers also support the Sony Vaio's Intel chipest pretty well.

Here's The relevant Information on the output on lshw command for the VGA Controller

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*-pci
description: Host bridge
product: Cantiga Memory Controller Hub
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: 07
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: driver=agpgart-intel
*-display:0 UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Cantiga Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 07
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
*-display:1 UNCLAIMED
description: Display controller
product: Cantiga Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
version: 07
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0

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