Sony

PCG-xxxx

Model	openSUSE Release	Video ^(A)			Sound ⁽⁴⁾	Network ^(B)			Bluetooth ⁽⁸⁾	Power Management ^(C)			Infra Red ⁽¹²⁾	PCMCIA ⁽¹³⁾	Card Reader ⁽¹⁴⁾	Others ^(*)
Model	openSUSE Release	2D ⁽¹⁾	3D ⁽²⁾	TV-out ⁽³⁾	Sound ⁽⁴⁾	Wired ⁽⁵⁾	Wireless ⁽⁶⁾	Modem ⁽⁷⁾	Bluetooth ⁽⁸⁾	Screen Brightness ⁽⁹⁾	Suspend to RAM ⁽¹⁰⁾	Suspend to Disk ⁽¹¹⁾	Infra Red ⁽¹²⁾	PCMCIA ⁽¹³⁾	Card Reader ⁽¹⁴⁾	Others ^(*)
PCG-GRZ614G	10.2
Remark		(4) Midi using timidity. (*) Firewire:
PCG-K35	10.0 Beta-3
Remark
PCG-U3	10.0 Beta-1
Remark		(4) Turn up PhoneOut to hear something. (11) Remove `ohci-hcd` from initrd (/etc/sysconfig/kernel), otherwise USB will not work after resume.

VGN-A xxxx

Model	openSUSE Release	Video ^(A)			Sound ⁽⁴⁾	Network ^(B)			Bluetooth ⁽⁸⁾	Power Management ^(C)			Infra Red ⁽¹²⁾	PCMCIA ⁽¹³⁾	Card Reader ⁽¹⁴⁾	Others ^(*)
Model	openSUSE Release	2D ⁽¹⁾	3D ⁽²⁾	TV-out ⁽³⁾	Sound ⁽⁴⁾	Wired ⁽⁵⁾	Wireless ⁽⁶⁾	Modem ⁽⁷⁾	Bluetooth ⁽⁸⁾	Screen Brightness ⁽⁹⁾	Suspend to RAM ⁽¹⁰⁾	Suspend to Disk ⁽¹¹⁾	Infra Red ⁽¹²⁾	PCMCIA ⁽¹³⁾	Card Reader ⁽¹⁴⁾	Others ^(*)
VGN-A517M	10.2
Remark		(2) Using ATI driver. (*) Firewire:

VGN-B xxxx

Model	openSUSE Release	Video ^(A)			Sound ⁽⁴⁾	Network ^(B)			Bluetooth ⁽⁸⁾	Power Management ^(C)			Infra Red ⁽¹²⁾	PCMCIA ⁽¹³⁾	Card Reader ⁽¹⁴⁾	Others ^(*)
Model	openSUSE Release	2D ⁽¹⁾	3D ⁽²⁾	TV-out ⁽³⁾	Sound ⁽⁴⁾	Wired ⁽⁵⁾	Wireless ⁽⁶⁾	Modem ⁽⁷⁾	Bluetooth ⁽⁸⁾	Screen Brightness ⁽⁹⁾	Suspend to RAM ⁽¹⁰⁾	Suspend to Disk ⁽¹¹⁾	Infra Red ⁽¹²⁾	PCMCIA ⁽¹³⁾	Card Reader ⁽¹⁴⁾	Others ^(*)
VGN-B99GP	10.2
Remark		(4) Go to mixer, switches and disable external amplifier to work. (9) Brightness has some bugs, can only adjust one level, sticks to near-max. () Intel Speed-step: () Touchpad: (*) Fn keys:
VGN-BX194	10.2
Remark		(*) Webcam:

VGN-C xxxx

Model	openSUSE Release	Video ^(A)			Sound ⁽⁴⁾	Network ^(B)			Bluetooth ⁽⁸⁾	Power Management ^(C)			Infra Red ⁽¹²⁾	PCMCIA ⁽¹³⁾	Card Reader ⁽¹⁴⁾	Others ^(*)
Model	openSUSE Release	2D ⁽¹⁾	3D ⁽²⁾	TV-out ⁽³⁾	Sound ⁽⁴⁾	Wired ⁽⁵⁾	Wireless ⁽⁶⁾	Modem ⁽⁷⁾	Bluetooth ⁽⁸⁾	Screen Brightness ⁽⁹⁾	Suspend to RAM ⁽¹⁰⁾	Suspend to Disk ⁽¹¹⁾	Infra Red ⁽¹²⁾	PCMCIA ⁽¹³⁾	Card Reader ⁽¹⁴⁾	Others ^(*)
VGN-C140F	10.2
Remark		(*) Touchpad:
VGN-C25G	11.0
Remark		(2) Using nVidia driver. () Fn keys (mute/volume only): () Touchpad: , additional notes here.

VGN-F xxxx

Model	openSUSE Release	Video ^(A)			Sound ⁽⁴⁾	Network ^(B)			Bluetooth ⁽⁸⁾	Power Management ^(C)			Infra Red ⁽¹²⁾	PCMCIA ⁽¹³⁾	Card Reader ⁽¹⁴⁾	Others ^(*)
Model	openSUSE Release	2D ⁽¹⁾	3D ⁽²⁾	TV-out ⁽³⁾	Sound ⁽⁴⁾	Wired ⁽⁵⁾	Wireless ⁽⁶⁾	Modem ⁽⁷⁾	Bluetooth ⁽⁸⁾	Screen Brightness ⁽⁹⁾	Suspend to RAM ⁽¹⁰⁾	Suspend to Disk ⁽¹¹⁾	Infra Red ⁽¹²⁾	PCMCIA ⁽¹³⁾	Card Reader ⁽¹⁴⁾	Others ^(*)
VGN-FE670G	10.2
Remark		(*) Touchpad:
VGN-FE880E/H	10.2
Remark		(6) Works after loading the updated 3945 driver and firmware. () Touchpad: () Webcam:
VGN-FJ290	10.2
Remark
VGN-FS115Z	10.1
Remark		(2) Using nVidia driver. (4) In sound mixer, select "Front" as master channel. (10) set SUSPEND2RAM_FORCE to "yes" and SUSPEND2RAM_ACPI_SLEEP to "2" in /etc/powersave/sleep. (*) Touchpad:
VGN-FS215E	10.3
Remark		(*) Touchpad:
VGN-FS215M	10.0
Remark		(2) Using nVidia driver. (*) Touchpad:
VGN-FS25GP	10.2
Remark		(2) Using nVidia driver.
VGN-FS315S	10.1
Remark		(2) Using nVidia driver. (*) Touchpad:
VGN-FS415M	10.0
10.1
Remark		10.0, 10.1: (7) soft modem works (you have to install hsfmodem). With hsfmodem, suspend to disk doesn't work. (8) To use bluetooth modems (like cell modems) you have to manually bind rfcomm device. (9) 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). (*) Touchpad:
VGN-FS415S	10.1
Remark		(2) Using nVidia driver. () Fn-keys: () Touchpad:
VGN-FS630W	10.2
Remark
VGN-FW11*	11.1
Remark		(4) Need to put `options snd-hda-intel model=sony-assamd` in `/etc/modprobe.d/sound`. () Firewire: () Webcam:
VGN-FZ21*	11.1
Remark		More info here. (2) Using nVidia driver. (4) Need to put `options snd-hda-intel model=vaio enable=1 index=0 position_fix=1` in `/etc/modprobe.d/sound`. () Firewire: () Webcam:

VGN-N xxxx

Model	openSUSE Release	Video ^(A)			Sound ⁽⁴⁾	Network ^(B)			Bluetooth ⁽⁸⁾	Power Management ^(C)			Infra Red ⁽¹²⁾	PCMCIA ⁽¹³⁾	Card Reader ⁽¹⁴⁾	Others ^(*)
Model	openSUSE Release	2D ⁽¹⁾	3D ⁽²⁾	TV-out ⁽³⁾	Sound ⁽⁴⁾	Wired ⁽⁵⁾	Wireless ⁽⁶⁾	Modem ⁽⁷⁾	Bluetooth ⁽⁸⁾	Screen Brightness ⁽⁹⁾	Suspend to RAM ⁽¹⁰⁾	Suspend to Disk ⁽¹¹⁾	Infra Red ⁽¹²⁾	PCMCIA ⁽¹³⁾	Card Reader ⁽¹⁴⁾	Others ^(*)
VGN-NR350FE	11.1
Remark		(A) Video seems to work unproperly at the installation part, but this fixes after the installation is done.

VGN-S xxxx

Model	openSUSE Release	Video ^(A)			Sound ⁽⁴⁾	Network ^(B)			Bluetooth ⁽⁸⁾	Power Management ^(C)			Infra Red ⁽¹²⁾	PCMCIA ⁽¹³⁾	Card Reader ⁽¹⁴⁾	Others ^(*)
Model	openSUSE Release	2D ⁽¹⁾	3D ⁽²⁾	TV-out ⁽³⁾	Sound ⁽⁴⁾	Wired ⁽⁵⁾	Wireless ⁽⁶⁾	Modem ⁽⁷⁾	Bluetooth ⁽⁸⁾	Screen Brightness ⁽⁹⁾	Suspend to RAM ⁽¹⁰⁾	Suspend to Disk ⁽¹¹⁾	Infra Red ⁽¹²⁾	PCMCIA ⁽¹³⁾	Card Reader ⁽¹⁴⁾	Others ^(*)
VGN-S270P	9.2
	10.0
	10.2
	10.3
	11.0
	11.1
	11.2
	11.3
	11.4
Remark		Up to openSUSE 11.2: (7) Needs proprietary Linuxant HSF modem driver. (11) Only works after unloading Linuxant HSF modem driver using 'hsfstop' command. () Firewire: () Touchpad: see this post. 11.1 - 11.2: (2) Using open source Radeon driver; only works for some apps (e.g. GoogleEarth). 11.3 - 11.4: (7) Needs proprietary Linuxant HSF modem driver, but version matching correct kernel not available since openSUSE 11.3. (9) Under recent KDE versions (4.5.x or 4.6.x; can't remember) brightness controls function properly again without the need for the spicctrl package. (10) and (11) Suspend to RAM finally works, yet at the expense of Suspend to Disk, oddly. 11.4: (1) Must download patches with Online Update to fix a display bug with the Radeon driver, which results in garbled displays on screensavers and other random places (i.e. LibreOffice Options dialog)
VGN-S360	10.2
Remark		Results expandable to VGN-S360P and most probably VGN-S270 and similar. (2) Using ATI driver. (4) set kmixer to control PCM. (11) Must turn off console framebuffer to get suspend to disk working, model is not on the suspend whitelist. () Touchpad: () Function Keys: (*) Firewire:
VGN-S560P	10.0
Remark		(2) Using nVidia proprietary driver. () Touchpad: () Fn-keys:
VGN-S5HP	10.2
Remark		(4) Sound control needs to be forced on PCM. (C) Does not auto power off after the "halt".

VGN-T xxxx

Model	openSUSE Release	Video ^(A)			Sound ⁽⁴⁾	Network ^(B)			Bluetooth ⁽⁸⁾	Power Management ^(C)			Infra Red ⁽¹²⁾	PCMCIA ⁽¹³⁾	Card Reader ⁽¹⁴⁾	Others ^(*)
Model	openSUSE Release	2D ⁽¹⁾	3D ⁽²⁾	TV-out ⁽³⁾	Sound ⁽⁴⁾	Wired ⁽⁵⁾	Wireless ⁽⁶⁾	Modem ⁽⁷⁾	Bluetooth ⁽⁸⁾	Screen Brightness ⁽⁹⁾	Suspend to RAM ⁽¹⁰⁾	Suspend to Disk ⁽¹¹⁾	Infra Red ⁽¹²⁾	PCMCIA ⁽¹³⁾	Card Reader ⁽¹⁴⁾	Others ^(*)
VGN-T1XP	10.0
Remark		(2) Using Intel binary driver. (10) needs Kernel parameter `acpi_sleep=s3_bios,s3_mode`. 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
Remark		Excellent notes here. (2) Using Intel binary driver.
VGN-TZ31WN	11.0
Remark		(2) Using Intel binary driver. (10) Set `S2RAM_OPTS="-f"`, as laptop is not whitelisted yet. () Motion Eye Webcam: links. () FN keys (update hal-info from git): (*) USB/Firewire:

VPC-E xxxx

Model	openSUSE Release	Video ^(A)			Sound ⁽⁴⁾	Network ^(B)			Bluetooth ⁽⁸⁾	Power Management ^(C)			Infra Red ⁽¹²⁾	PCMCIA ⁽¹³⁾	Card Reader ⁽¹⁴⁾	Others ^(*)
Model	openSUSE Release	2D ⁽¹⁾	3D ⁽²⁾	TV-out ⁽³⁾	Sound ⁽⁴⁾	Wired ⁽⁵⁾	Wireless ⁽⁶⁾	Modem ⁽⁷⁾	Bluetooth ⁽⁸⁾	Screen Brightness ⁽⁹⁾	Suspend to RAM ⁽¹⁰⁾	Suspend to Disk ⁽¹¹⁾	Infra Red ⁽¹²⁾	PCMCIA ⁽¹³⁾	Card Reader ⁽¹⁴⁾	Others ^(*)
VPC-EB3J1E	11.4
Remark		(1) http://www.smolts.org/client/show/?uuid=pub_27883aa4-0de0-484e-b918-a2f68eee5b9d (2) Bluetooth required installing some obex-packages in KDE

VPC-F xxxx

Model	openSUSE Release	Video ^(A)			Sound ⁽⁴⁾	Network ^(B)			Bluetooth ⁽⁸⁾	Power Management ^(C)			Infra Red ⁽¹²⁾	PCMCIA ⁽¹³⁾	Card Reader ⁽¹⁴⁾	Others ^(*)
Model	openSUSE Release	2D ⁽¹⁾	3D ⁽²⁾	TV-out ⁽³⁾	Sound ⁽⁴⁾	Wired ⁽⁵⁾	Wireless ⁽⁶⁾	Modem ⁽⁷⁾	Bluetooth ⁽⁸⁾	Screen Brightness ⁽⁹⁾	Suspend to RAM ⁽¹⁰⁾	Suspend to Disk ⁽¹¹⁾	Infra Red ⁽¹²⁾	PCMCIA ⁽¹³⁾	Card Reader ⁽¹⁴⁾	Others ^(*)
VPC-F1190X	11.4
Remark		(9) With the nouveau driver the screen does not buzz at any brightness. With the nvidia driver the screen buzzes when not at maximum brightness

VPC-M xxxx

Model	openSUSE Release	Video ^(A)			Sound ⁽⁴⁾	Network ^(B)			Bluetooth ⁽⁸⁾	Power Management ^(C)			Infra Red ⁽¹²⁾	PCMCIA ⁽¹³⁾	Card Reader ⁽¹⁴⁾	Others ^(*)
Model	openSUSE Release	2D ⁽¹⁾	3D ⁽²⁾	TV-out ⁽³⁾	Sound ⁽⁴⁾	Wired ⁽⁵⁾	Wireless ⁽⁶⁾	Modem ⁽⁷⁾	Bluetooth ⁽⁸⁾	Screen Brightness ⁽⁹⁾	Suspend to RAM ⁽¹⁰⁾	Suspend to Disk ⁽¹¹⁾	Infra Red ⁽¹²⁾	PCMCIA ⁽¹³⁾	Card Reader ⁽¹⁴⁾	Others ^(*)
VPC-M11M1E/B	11.3			n/a				n/a					n/a	n/a
Remark		(6) Needs at least Linux 2.6.36.x to get rt2860sta running
VPC-M11M1E/B	11.4			n/a				n/a					n/a	n/a		webcam

HCL:Sony laptops

Contents

Sony

PCG-xxxx

VGN-A xxxx

VGN-B xxxx

VGN-C xxxx

VGN-F xxxx

VGN-N xxxx

VGN-S xxxx

VGN-T xxxx

VPC-E xxxx

VPC-F xxxx

VPC-M xxxx