Hi everyone,

I recemtly purchased an older 850MHz sony vaio PCG-R505TSK. It is a very nice machine, but I could tell from the get go it was going to be a little bit of a challenge to get everyhtign supported and working in linux. The main problem that i am having is getting the video to be displayed ont eh whole screen. I only get a centered 640x480 screen, even though in Knoppix it is full screen and the supported resolution is 1024x768. any help getting this sistuated woul be of great help. I am not sure if it is a framebuffer problem, or if there is a setting i am missing in the kernel. if more information is needed, please let me knwo, i didnt want to just start posting all the specs. if you need somethign that would be relevant, just let me know, i will monitor this thread. Thanks all in advance.

Geoff

hellos

Maybe this can be of some help:

http://khali.linux-fr.org/vaio/
http://www.xnfo.de/vaio/gentoo_on_gr214ep.html
http://www.emch.org/unix/gentoo/linuxvaio.html <--- !! same model
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/04/msg00581.html <--- !! same model

I hope this give you some notion of what to do.
Remember, google is your friend, especially when searching for quoted strings.

greets

thanks for the links, i tried google, and this entire site, with no results, except for some very vague info, couldnt find anything in the HCL either, so i figured at last chance post cause someone here knows what to do.

There is nothign on those pages that helps my video problem. I am using slackware 10.0, but i think that it is a hardware config problem,, I dont even know where to start...