topic VAIO ON LINUX .. in PCs & Accessories

VAIO ON LINUX ..

Malloc — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 18:37:50 GMT

Hello,

I am using FEDORA CORE 4 LINUX system.
I have 2 questions;
1-I could not use hotkeys for brightness the screen or control the volume .

2-I have a speaker (WitSound) works just with USB instead of electricity. (gets energy from USB drive) when I put this to the USB sound comes from speakers instead of speakers which inside of comp AT WINDOWS XP.

But when I want to use these speakers at LINUX . They are no voices at this speakers.

Re: VAIO ON LINUX ..

Malloc — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:21:03 GMT

who will answer me, what is the advantage of club vaio if you dont help me ?

Re: VAIO ON LINUX ..

carthorian — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:50:03 GMT

Sounds typical linux, driver problem. Don't think a lot of people can realy help you out here. Most people who post here can't get their windows drivers working properly.

Re: VAIO ON LINUX ..

rich912 — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:08:45 GMT

....what is the advantage of club vaio if you dont help me ?

The advantage of Club Vaio is that you can chat and exchange experiences with other Vaio users. As Carthorian states, not may of us use Linux and thus the lack of replies to your post.

That said, have a look here for some tips on Linux and Vaio's.

Re: VAIO ON LINUX ..

in4rm — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 01:44:20 GMT

I've had my FJ170/W for a bit now and I;m really pleased, but I;ve seen the same issue as you're describing. I;m using Ubuntu 5.10 but I;m going to get rid of that in favour of my own distribution. Unfortunately, I haven't got time to hack a real solution to our little issue, but a makeshift solution would be something like this:

get the sonypi module and spicctrl applet compiled and running on your system. Then hook up a hot key combo for your favourite windowmanager to run a little script that calls 'spicctrl -b nnnn' where nnnn is something between 0 and 255. You might want the script to read/write the value in some dotfile in your $HOME dir.

I;m sure there are better ways of doing this, but the above should work without actually having to break out the C Compiler.

Re: VAIO ON LINUX ..

kee-lo_ — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 15:31:55 GMT

Hi,

No one seems to have written any hotkey utility due to the fact Sony won't support the Linux community

Re: VAIO ON LINUX ..

Malloc — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 05:15:13 GMT

Hi,

No one seems to have written any hotkey utility due to the fact Sony won't support the Linux community

then maybe you can write a solution?