Re: Re: linux on a vaio (Jack Coates)

On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 22:25, Indurain wrote:
> So thank you very much Jack and everyone else on my sony vaio sound woes.
> 
> First to prevent my soundcard from locking when I used it, I did in
> fact have to turn on acpi.  However, I notice now my laptop doesn't
> turn itself off automatically anymore.  Plus whatever laptop power
> management I used to have doesn't exist anymore.  In Mandrake 9.1,
> there is a big red 'X' over the battery (any tips???).
> 

ACPI is not as mature as APM and requires more manual tuning. Read up on
event handling and try swsusp -- beta 19-16 is included with MDK 9.1's
latest update kernel (-25mdk). For the desktop battery monitor, I assume
you're in KDE? Look for kacpi, or try gkrellm with gkacpi.

...sound stuff snipped...

congrats
> 
> I STILL DO NOT have internet sound.  Like, if you go to m-w.com and
> click on the pronounciation for 'cathode', I don't hear anything.  I
> also tried a noisy website, joecartoon.com, no dice.  
> 

I wasn't able to get sound from either site, not sure what's up with
that.

> Any ideas??
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jay
> 
> 
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