Sony Vaio FS-series

bassvandijk · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 11:42 am Post subject: Sony Vaio FS-series

I'm planning to buy the Sony Vaio VGN-FS115M (look at the cool 3D view) with the specs given below.

Does anybody have experience with Gentoo Linux on Sony Vaio's in general and specifically this model? Basically I want to know if Gentoo will run smoothly.

ericxx2005 · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 5:43 pm Post subject:

Gentoo flies on my Vaio GRV-670. The only thing is that the special function keys (Fn keys) don't work.

rowbin hod · n00b Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Posts: 50

I'm looking at this FS115Z (not M) too. As far as i can tell everything will be ok, with the possible exception of driver support for the 6200 go. Still looking into that though.

bassvandijk · Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 6:07 pm Post subject:

rowbin hod · n00b Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Posts: 50

but from that list they obviously are able to support turbocache on the normal 6200. so i guess it's just a matter of time before the 6200go turbocache is supported.

Peach · Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 5:29 pm Post subject:

does anyone have idea how to make function keys work? Did anyone succeeded in making them work?

seems strange to me, but the lcd sometimes is too bright! so having at least the brightness key working can be interesting.

drop a message or something about it pls!
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ao210 · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 45 Location: MA

I just got a fs690 2.0gh /nvidia go 6200/ 1 gb memory /8ogb harddrive... run very nice .. i still try to config the wirelss connection..

brfsa · Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 7:10 am Post subject:

I got the fn keys working by modifying sonypid.

It works great, all the keys plus a nice OSD bar for the brightness.

my knowledge in C is very bad, but with some help maybe it can become good.

I will post in few days a better version.

goom · Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:52 am Post subject:

I've got a Sony Vaio VGN-FS315H and everything runs pretty fine. Dunno if there's some hardware not working. If that's the case I have no need to use it. Never had any serious problems getting all the stuff to work.
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brfsa · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:52 pm Post subject: sony fn keys

hey guys, here is my sonypid modified code, with my poor c programming...

now, only with the fn keys for brighteness..

I have a beta version with the fn sound, mute, sleep, hybernate and eject-cd keys....
I don't wanna post crappy code, but when it gets better i will give it out.

here is the link:

http://iele.au.edu/gentoo/sonypid-simple-2.0.tar.gz

Requirement:

*1. Kernel 2.6 with Sony Vaio Programable Input enable statically.
Go to:
Device Drivers -> Character Devices -> Sony Vaio Programable I/O Control Device Support

*2. x11-libs/xosd installed

then:

at240 · l33t Joined: 12 Aug 2005 Posts: 603 Location: UK

@brfsa

Out of interest, have you seen this?
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-335267-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-vaio.html
It provides a nice little utility that gets the fn and S1/2 keys working. Plus, you can customise things to a certain extent.

brfsa · Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 7:54 am Post subject:

pijalu's code is quite nice, simple and straight forward...
but you still need to patch the kernel...
With the Sonypid, you can use the existing sony ACPI in the 2.6 kernels.

I tried using that patch already, and it worked.
But I changed to sonypid because it is more complex and ALL the fn keys are supported, not only the brightness, but also wireless switch, memory stick insert/reject (but I don't know how to make work, not supported yet), P1, P2 and other keys...

in pijalu's code, the sound keys solution is nice, so, I will see if I got some time to merge both codes and make it a coolest one...