Re: Re: linux on a vaio (John S. Andersen)

Indurain wrote:
> On 21 Jul 2003 at 8:45, Jack Coates wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 07:50, Tom Pendergast wrote:
>>
>>>Hey Folks,
>>>I was thinking about picking up a vaio sometime this month.
>>
> Although
> 
>>>the deciding factor is whether or not linux will run ok on it. I
>>>would probably be putting suse 8.2 pro on it, but I would also
>>>consider having a dual boot with XP. Can anyone advise as to
>>
> whether
> 
>>>this is a good idea or not.. Thanks for your time.
>>>
>>>-t-
>>
>>Linux generally works well on new Vaios, with the exception of
>>suspension. For some people it works okay, for some it works with
>>occasional major filesystem corruption, for others (like me) it
>>doesn't work at all.
>>
>>Everything else works fine once you get ACPI enabled.
>>--
>>Jack Coates
> 
> 
> I disagree...though I haven't tried suspension, I have found getting sound to work on a sony vaio laptop is a major, MAJOR pain.  I have tried SuSE 8.0, 8.1, and Mandrake 9.1 and all lock my systems when I try to use the alsa sound system with the via686 soundcard in the vaio.  I recently tried 4front tech. drivers to no avail either.
> 
> Jay Freyensee
> 
> 
Suspend-to-disk should work reasonably well, though it may fight with 
the sound.
Bob.

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