Re: What kernel "cocktail" for a PCG-F190?

On Thursday 05 June 2003 10:16 pm, Ken Restivo wrote:
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> That said, I've got 2.4.21-pre6 running on most of my machines here. I'm
> going to load Debian on the Vaio, and need to know what ugliness I may
> encounter. I've got all the various Linux-on-a-Vaio web pages cached here,
> have read 'em, but many are out-of-date and of course some have conflicting
> information or about machines that aren't EXACTLY the one I have here.
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> - - Will I have the "PCI-says-USB-is-on-IRQ9-but-it's-really-on-IRQ10"
> problem? What hacks work around that?
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> - - APM, ACPI, or what? If ACPI (which I dread and fear), can I stick with
> the in-kernel version? Will suspend work?  Hibernate? Thermal throttling?

I can't tell you what debian things might work on that machine, but a friend
has one and I belive that model is acpi capable. My friend runs SuSE 8.2 
and is very happy with it.

I seem to remember that he tried an earlier release and it would work
without acpi because it also has apm.

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