Martin Notes » Sony Vaio TZ21MN http://martinnotes.com Open source in real life Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:44:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Nearly there! http://martinnotes.com/2008/07/26/nearly-there/ http://martinnotes.com/2008/07/26/nearly-there/#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:11:27 +0000 Martin http://martinnotes.com/?p=29 The webcam of my Sony is now working! http://download.tuxfamily.org/arakhne/pool/ricoh-webcam-r5u870/

[Update 2 Nov 2008]

The URL has been updated: http://wiki.mediati.org/R5u870. But please mind that the current release doesn’t work on the latest releases of the kernel. The fix is in progress.

]]> http://martinnotes.com/2008/07/26/nearly-there/feed/ 0 Ubuntu Hardy Heron http://martinnotes.com/2008/04/09/ubuntu-hardy-heron/ http://martinnotes.com/2008/04/09/ubuntu-hardy-heron/#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:20:45 +0000 Martin http://www.mixedlife.com/wordpress/?p=4 I installed Hardy (8.04) on my laptop because Gutsy did not run very nice out of the box and I was too lazy to make it work smoothly. So I went for the beta version. So far it runs ok. There are glitches, but it’s stable and it looks good.

I run it on a sony vaio TZ21MN, the smallest of the TZ series.

What works:

  • Graphics on the intel 950
  • Network, wireless and wired
  • Sound, including switching off the speakers when I plugin the headphone
  • All ‘special’ keys: volume, brightness, media keys

Still strugling with:

  • Suspend, this is extermely annoying since it did work after one update, but died after the next
  • Webcam, frankly I don’t care
  • The MemoryStick and SD slots, irritating, but I can live with this
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