GNU/Linux on a Sony Vaio VGN-A397XP

Last updated: Tuesday 25th April 2006, © Copyright John Leach <john@johnleach.co.uk> 2005-2006

Of course I have a dmesg log and an lspci output, as is mandatory under Geek law, section 5, paragraph 11b.

Power saving

Support for suspend to ram and suspend to disk has made progress, but not to a point I could actually use it. At all. Recently things started hotting up with the Ubuntu Dapper beta where it would suspend to ram, and seemingly resume perfectly except the screen stayed powered off. I managed to it working by making a little config change. Edit the file /etc/default/acpi-support and add the line:

DOUBLE_CONSOLE_SWITCH=true

Sound

Sound works fine with modern kernels sporting the HDA Intel driver, but I've not yet managed to record any input from the in-built mic (not even with Windows either!). I can see the bloody mic underneath the grill next to the speaker mute button and there is a 'Front Mic' ALSA input so I know it has one, but no luck.

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