Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Apr 2002 02:28:11 +0200 | From | Erik Mouw <> | Subject | Re: Sony Vaio Laptop problems |
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On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 05:28:39PM +0200, Stephan Maciej wrote: > I do have two problems with running Linux on my Sony Vaio PCG-FX501 Laptop.
I have a FX505, which basically is a FX501 with Athlon 1.2GHz and some other goodies.
> 1.) When I do a reboot, the bootup logo (a nice animation from Sony :-) > displays, and the HD light turns on and stays on forever. Approximately 30 > seconds later, the logo goes away, and I do see the Phoenix BIOS' startup > screen, saying > > ERROR > 0211: Keyboard Error > > I do have the option to use <F2> to enter Setup, but due to some strange 0211 > keyboard error it just won't work. The only proper way for restarting my > machine is to power it off and turn it on again. > > What can I do?
1) Update the BIOS, my laptop shipped with an old version and a BIOS update fixed some keyboard related problems. (you need to boot into windows for this) 2) Apply the latest ACPI patch.
> 2.) The laptop seems to put itself to sleep when I don't do anything for a > longer period of time. The display becomes black (the backlight is still on, > though) and I can't do anything except powering off and on again to make the > machine work again. No messages about anything interesting are in my syslog > files after this has happened. The problem persists both with ACPI and APM. > > The only thing that fixes this problem is loading or installing the sonypi > driver into the kernel. It doesn't function as expected, but it solves at > least *this* problem. (As documented in the driver, sonypi should be able to > set/get the backlight intensity of the display, but that doesn't work. There > are even more features that it has but that are non-operational on my > system.)
My FX505 doesn't need the sonypi driver. With APM I can suspend the computer but the CPU fan won't turn off; with ACPI the CPU fan turns off, but I can't suspend the computer. Anyway, the latest ACPI patch makes it a lot more quiet.
> This is all okay, especially as I can now leave my laptop alone for even more > than 10 minutes or so without having the need to turn it off and on again > afterwards. OTOH, with sonypi my via82cxxx_audio driver won't work. > > When compiled into kernel, I see the follwing message:
Use the ALSA-0.9 series driver instead of the kernel driver.
> So, just for completeness, here's my system configuration: > > Mobile AMD Duron Processor, 1GHz > 256MB RAM > IDE hard disk and CD/DVD ROM
You forgot to tell which kernel version you are currently using. Anyway, linux-2.4.19-pre5 + acpi-20020329-2.4.18 works for me.
Erik
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