Comments on: Sony VAIO SZ6 and Ubuntu

By: JoshSN

JoshSN — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 02:32:30 +0000

I guess I never really used the speed/stamina switch or something, and only recently learned that it switched graphics chips. Now I want it to work, but I guess it is broken. With the switch in either position lspci never lists nVidia.

Is there a way other than the switch to get speed mode?

By: Andre

Andre — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:44:38 +0000

Hey,

I’ve got a Vaio VGN SZ61 and first of all I have to say thx cause youre page helped alot since I´m new to Linux.
If brought the Motion Eye Camera to work with the R5U870 driver, but it but it works not correctly with wengophone and linphone(Wengo->Alot of Green Pixels in the Picture, Linphone->Totally distored Picture, mostly black). I was wonder if you maybe know what this problem may cause or if other SZ6 useres have the same problem.

Thx

By: Keith

Keith — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:58:40 +0000

Working :)

Keith
http://www.HDPl.us

By: Shadowmite

Shadowmite — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:05:51 +0000

Well I got a reply. It’s not a driver they are releasing, but rather a SDK. According to the EULA the library itself is redistributable so it looks like we have what we need now to write a interface, possibly integrating with fprint. Mirek Buran, the same guy others have talked with is how gave me the link and again asked that I not redistribute the package of course.

I’ll work on a proof of concept / test that it works and update here soon!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:24:11 +0000

That’s interesting, thanks for the update!

By: Shadowmite

Shadowmite — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:15:30 +0000

Just an update that it appears a fingerprint scanner solution is in the works and UPEK had confirmed several times that a driver is in alpha and hopefully beta by now. I have emailed them requesting the driver if it is to beta condition (they targeted a 5/2008 release).

Also a developer named Daniel Drake has said he most likely can work with it, but I believe has held off waiting for the offical one. Read more at:

http://projects.reactivated.net/fprint/bugs/index.php?do=details&task_id=9

By: Javier

Javier — Wed, 21 May 2008 05:12:13 +0000

Thanks! Great site. I have Ubuntu Hardy running fine in a VAIO SZ650N and nVidia with just two problems:

- Suspend and Hibernate not reliable.
- Integrated Memory Stick reader can not be mounted.

Any suggestions specially for the first problem?

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:54:32 +0000

Thanks, I hadn’t seen it, but I’ll check it out.

As for my sound, without this line, options snd-hda-intel model=vaio in alsa-base, I have sound from the speakers. When I add it, I have no sound at all.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:22:59 +0000

No, I haven’t. I’ll check it out thanks.

Without this line, options snd-hda-intel model=vaio in alsa-base, I get sound but only from the speakers. When I add that line, I get no sound. It’s not that the sound is muted. I checked both the gnome alsa mixer and alsamixer in the shell.

My sound worked with alsa 1.0.15, so I thought I’d go back to that. I’m having troubles compiling it, however.

I get this message:

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-16-generic’
scripts/Makefile.build:46: *** CFLAGS was changed in “/usr/src/alsa-driver-1.0.15rc2/acore/Makefile”. Fix it to use EXTRA_CFLAGS. Stop.

I’m not sure what to make of it.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:02:32 +0000

I actually switched to Fedora 9 after a short stint of Debian unstable. None of that should matter though, Hardy Heron ought to have the right version of alsa for this to work. Is the sound muted when you plug in your head phones, or does nothing happen at all? (Or does sound come both the speakers and the head phones)

Have you seen this link: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Gutsy_Intel_HD_Audio_Controller