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Model SUSE Linux
version 		Hardware Support Remark:
Video Sound Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Power
Management 		Other
PCG-GRZ614G 10.2 Final ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 (3D and Doublehead) Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png (midi: timidity) Image:22px-Tick.png 100/10 MB wlan:; firewire Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png sony_acpi USB scanned and working, sonypi driver loaded
PCG-K35 10.0 Beta3 OK, Braille Screen , still trying to resolve Image:22px-Tick.png 100/MB FD Image:22px-Tick.png Suspend to RAM USB scanned and working. Logitech media mouse working, sonypi driver loaded
PCG-U3 10.0 Beta1 Image:22px-Tick.png
3D		 Image:22px-Tick.png(turn up PhoneOut to hear something) Image:22px-Tick.png (installation via PXE, too) Suspend to RAM: Image:22px-Tick.png; Suspend to Disk: remove ohci-hcd from initrd (/etc/sysconfig/kernel), otherwise USB will not work after resume sonypi driver loaded automatically, jog dial works
VGN-A517M 10.2 Final ATI Mobility Radeon X600Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png 100/10 MB Image:22px-Tick.png wlan:Image:22px-Tick.png; firewire Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png sony_acpi USB scanned and working, sonypi driver loaded
VGN-B99GP 10.2 Final Image:22px-Tick.png Using default Intel binary
Image:22px-Tick.png 3D (it's just as crap as in windows, though) 		Image:22px-Tick.png, BUT you have to goto KMix, switches and DISABLE external amplifier to work (or GNOME equiv) Image:22px-Tick.png, Default drivers , device found and configurable; UNTESTED Image:22px-Tick.png Suspend to disk
Image:22px-Tick.png Intel Speed-Step
Suspend to RAM 		Memory Stick PRO
Firewire (detected)
Modem (no dial-up to test; drivers installed)
Image:22px-Tick.png KDE 1400x1050 resolution
Image:22px-Tick.png Touchpad 100% 		Image:22px-Tick.pngFunction keys for brightness/sound work
Brightness has some bugs (can only adjust one level, sticks to near-max).

KEYBOARD ERRORS, not all keys will map right.

Results expandable to most B-series VAIO's.
VGN-BX194 10.2 Image:22px-Tick.png (3D ok) Image:22px-Tick.png (great on jacklab) Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png sony_acpi ok Haven't try EmpKernel for Biotmetry [1] Memory Stick, Biometric and Webcam
VGN-C140F 10.2 Final Image:22px-Tick.png Using included Intel driver (3D Works out of the box) Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Not probed Image:22px-Tick.png USB
Image:22px-Tick.png Touchpad
Memory Stick Port
56K modem
VGN-C25G 11.0 Final 64-bit Image:22px-Tick.png Using default or Nvidia proprietary driver Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Suspend 2 RAM
Image:22px-Tick.png Suspend 2 Disk
Screen brightness
 Image:22px-Tick.png MemoryStick
Image:22px-Tick.pngExpressCard/Card reader
Image:22px-Tick.png Fn keys (mute/volume only)
Image:22px-Tick.png Touchpad
Modem 		Touchpad needs manual configuration, great notes here.
VGN-FE670G 10.2 Final Image:22px-Tick.png Using included Intel driver Image:22px-Tick.png (increase "PCM" volume in Kmix to hear sounds) Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Suspend to Disk
Suspend to RAM (might need to use same settings as VGN-FS115Z below)
Image:22px-Tick.png Auto screen brightness via KPowersave 		Image:22px-Tick.png USB
Image:22px-Tick.png Touchpad
Memory Stick
Fn keys
56K modem
S1 & S2 buttons 		1280x800 is available at 46Hz but it looks great, hardware mute and volume buttons work, XGL transparency works out of the box
VGN-FE880E/H 10.2 Final 64-bit Image:22px-Tick.png Fine with the standard drivers Image:22px-Tick.png Sound volume is low to begin with using ALSA Image:22px-Tick.png Works fine with the default drivers Image:22px-Tick.png works after loading the updated 3945 driver and firmware Image:22px-Tick.png Suspend to Disk
Suspend to RAM
 Image:22px-Tick.png USB memory sticks
Image:22px-Tick.png USB exernal disk drives
Modem - not checked but probably OK
Image:22px-Tick.png Touchpad
Image:22px-Tick.png Logitech USB Mouse
Memeory sticks (none to test)
Image:22px-Tick.png Build in camera
built in mic		 Function buttons for volume and mute work OK.
Screen resolution of 1280x800 looks good.
Haven't tried mapping the Fn keys or loading the sonypi driver
This should work with the FE890N/H model as well.
VGN-FJ290 10.2 Final Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png
VGN-FS115Z 10.1 Final Image:22px-Tick.png 2D (see remark)
Image:22px-Tick.png 3D (using Nvidia proprietary driver) 		Image:22px-Tick.png (in KMix, select "Front" as master channel) Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Suspend to Disk (out of the box)
Image:22px-Tick.png Suspend to RAM (set SUSPEND2RAM_FORCE to "yes" and SUSPEND2RAM_ACPI_SLEEP to "2" in /etc/powersave/sleep)
Image:22px-Tick.png Screen brightness (tested via KPowersave) 		Image:22px-Tick.png USB
Image:22px-Tick.png Touchpad
Memory Stick
Fn keys
56K modem 		Manually set LCD 1280x800@60Hz (YAST > Hardware > Graphic Card and Monitor)
VGN-FS215E 10.3 Final Image:22px-Tick.png Using Intel 915 GM driver with 3D Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png KPowerSave
Suspend to RAM
not out of box anyway
Image:22px-Tick.png suspend to disk
Image:22px-Tick.png screen brightness 		X auto set up works correctly (1200x800)
Image:22px-Tick.png touchpad
no setup for Fn keys or S1, S2.
Image:22px-Tick.png WiFi switch hotplugs OK 		upgrade from 10.2 was problem for X due to new file locations.
Max volume set by volume settings in Windoze
VGN-FS215M 10.0 Final Image:22px-Tick.png Using Nvidia proprietary driver Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Suspend to Disk; screen brightness works The X resolution has to be set manually (1200x800, non-standard); touchpad works perfectly
VGN-FS25GP 10.2 Final Image:22px-Tick.png Using default or Nvidia proprietary driver Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Suspend does not work out of the box
Image:22px-Tick.png Screen brightness (tested via KPowersave)
Image:22px-Tick.png USB		 The X resolution has to be set manually (1200x800, non-standard); touchpad works perfectly
VGN-FS315S 10.1 Final Image:22px-Tick.png Using Nvidia proprietary driver Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Suspend to Disk and Suspend to RAM;Image:22px-Tick.png Screen brightness works(powersave -k and -K)Manually setting LCD 1280x800@60Hz works fine; touchpad works Haven't got the FN keys working yet (needs sonyacpi)
VGN-FS415M 10.0 Final Image:22px-Tick.png Ok with default driver but no 3D available and other usefull video options. For these you have to download and use Nvidia proprietary driver Image:22px-Tick.png Front Sound works with FN keys too Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png To use bluetooth modems (like cell modems) you have to manually bind rfcomm device Image:22px-Tick.png Suspend to Disk and Suspend to RAM; Image:22px-Tick.png Screen brightness works either with powersave -k and -K and with FN keys (in order to use FN keys you have to compile the following packages: fsfn, xosd, patched sony_acpi) Manually setting LCD 1280x800@60Hz works fine; touchpad works; soft modem works (you have to install hsfmodem) with hsfmodem, suspend to disk doesn't work
VGN-FS415M 10.1 Final Image:22px-Tick.png Ok with default driver but no 3D available and other usefull video options. For these you have to download and use Nvidia proprietary driver Image:22px-Tick.png Front Sound works with FN keys too Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png To use bluetooth modems (like cell modems) you have to manually bind rfcomm device Image:22px-Tick.png Suspend to Disk and Suspend to RAM; Image:22px-Tick.png Screen brightness works either with powersave -k and -K and with FN keys (in order to use FN keys you have to compile the following packages: fsfn, xosd, patched sony_acpi) Manually setting LCD 1280x800@60Hz works fine; touchpad works; soft modem works (you have to install hsfmodem) with hsfmodem, suspend to disk doesn't work
VGN-FS415S 10.1 Final Image:22px-Tick.png Using Nvidia proprietary driver Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Suspend to Disk and Suspend to RAM; work with nvidia driver 1.0-8762 Image:22px-Tick.png Screen brightness Image:22px-Tick.png FN keys (sony_acpi & fsfn)Manually setting LCD 1280x800@60Hz works fine; touchpad works Sony Memorystick Reader
VGN-FS630W 10.2 Final Image:22px-Tick.png Using drivers supplied by openSUSE; Image:22px-Tick.png 3D works with Intel 910 Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Flawless with Encore USB Dongle Image:22px-Tick.png Suspend to Disk; Suspend to RAM Manually setting LCD 1280x800@60Hz; touchpad works (see remark) Sony Memorystick Reader; Modem; touchpad too sensitive;
VGN-FW11* 11.1 ATI Mobility Radeon HD3470
Image:22px-Tick.png Using radeonhd driver without 3D acceleration 		Image:22px-Tick.png Need to put "options snd-hda-intel model=sony-assamd" in /etc/modprobe.d/sound Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Suspend to RAM
Suspend to Disk
Screen brightness 		Image:22px-Tick.png Firewire
Image:22px-Tick.png Webcam
Modem
Image:22px-Tick.png Card reader
Image:22px-Tick.png ExpressCard 		Touchpad needs manual configuration
VGN-FZ21* 11.1 NVIDIA 8400M GT
Image:22px-Tick.png Using Nvidia proprietary driver 		Image:22px-Tick.png Need to put "options snd-hda-intel model=vaio enable=1 index=0 position_fix=1" in /etc/modprobe.d/sound Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Suspend to RAM
Image:22px-Tick.png Suspend to Disk
Image:22px-Tick.png Screen brightness
Image:22px-Tick.png Firewire
Image:22px-Tick.png Webcam
Modem
Image:22px-Tick.png Card reader
more info here
VGN-S270P 9.2
10.0
10.2
10.3
11.0
11.1 		Image:22px-Tick.png Display @1280x800.
3D working by default since 11.0, using open source Radeon driver, but only truly usable for some apps (e.g. GoogleEarth) since 11.1 		Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png No built-in Bluetooth, but a USB dongle works fine Image:22px-Tick.png Suspend to Disk (only after unloading Linuxant HSF modem driver using 'hsfstop' command)
Suspend to RAM
Screen brightness and function key controllers improved from 9.2 thru 10.3, but got progressively worse since 11.0 to being non-existent or non-configurable now - haven't found an adequate workaround; spicctrl no longer seems to work 		Image:22px-Tick.png Memory Stick slot finally works in 11.1 under KDE4. Just stick it in and Device Notifier pops up. Yay.
Image:22px-Tick.png 56k modem (using paid-for Linuxant driver; free 14k version available; under openSUSE 11.0 (not 11.1) it requires additional ALSA driver)
Firewire (not tested)
PCMCIA (not tested) 		Image:22px-Tick.png Managed to reconfigure touchpad to have full scroll and double-click functionality; see this post.
VGN-S360 10.2 Image:22px-Tick.png Using ATI's driver Image:22px-Tick.png (set kmixer to control PCM) Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Suspend to RAM Image:22px-Tick.png Touchpad
Image:22px-Tick.png Function Keys
Image:22px-Tick.png Screen Brightness
Memory Stick Reader
Firewire
Modem 		Must turn off console framebuffer to get suspend to disk working, model is not on the suspend whitelist. By default, touchpad sensitivity was off the charts. Results expandable to VGN-S360P and most probably VGN-S270 and similar.
VGN-S560P 10.0 Final Image:22px-Tick.png Using Nvidia proprietary driver Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Suspend to Disk; Screen brightness does not work - sonypi loads and brightness values change, but lcd does not change brightness The X resolution has to be set manually (1680x1050 with LCD monitor); touchpad works perfectly Fn-Keys don't work...looking for keyboard watcher daemon
VGN-S5HP 10.2 Final Image:22px-Tick.png Using OpenSuse suplied driver Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Suspend to Disk; Screen brightness does not work - sonypi loads and brightness values change, but lcd does not change brightness Sound control needs to be forced on PCM Does not auto power off after the "halt"
VGN-T1XP 10.0 Image:22px-Tick.png (using Intel binary driver; 3D untested) Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Suspend to RAM: Image:22px-Tick.png (needs Kernel parameter acpi_sleep=s3_bios,s3_mode); Suspend to Disk: Image:22px-Tick.png Hard disc will remain shut down for about 90s after wake from RAM due to IRQ restart problem. During that time system will hang but will then resume fine.
VGN-T2XP 10.1 Image:22px-Tick.png (using Intel binary driver; 3D untested) Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png sony_acpi driver works for controlling backlight Excellent notes here
VGN-TZ31WN 11.0 Final Image:22px-Tick.png Using included intel driver (2D/3D/1366x768) Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png 100/10 MB Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png (Set S2RAM_OPTS="-f", as laptop is not whitelisted yet) Motion Eye Webcam Image:22px-Tick.png
FN keys (update hal-info from git) Image:22px-Tick.png
WWAN (just needs to be powered on, check sony_laptop module) Image:22px-Tick.png
Fingerprint Reader (libfprint git works though)
USB/Firewire Image:22px-Tick.png
VGN-NR350FE 11.1 Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png It was installed from openSUSE DVD. Video seems to work unproperly at the installation part, but this fixes after the installation is done. Video fails with CD edition.
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