Installing [UBUNTU] on [SONY VAIO VGN-FE21B]
Last updated: 13/01/2007
General Hardware Specifications of [SONY VAIO VGN-FE21B]:
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Hardware Components
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Status under Linux
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Notes
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| Pentium T2300 @ 1.66 GHz |
Works | No special procedure required during installation. |
| 15.4″ LCD | Works | No special procedure required during installation |
| NVIDIA 7400 | Works | No special procedure required during installation If you want xgl, compiz or beryl download and install NVIDIA drivers see procedure here and X11 configuration here VGA output and S-video output not tested |
| 1GB, RAM, 2DIMMs | Works | No special procedure required during installation |
| 80 GB SATA Hard Drive | Works | No special procedure required during installation |
| Integrated 5-1 Memory Card Reader | Should Works | Not tested should work |
| Integrated Bluetooth | Works | No special procedure required during installation |
| Integrated PCMCIA | Works | No special procedure required during installation |
| Integrated IEEE1384 | Works | No special procedure required during installation |
| Internal V92 Modem | Should Work | Not tested should work see http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/ |
| DVD-RW Unit | Works | No special procedure required during installation |
| Internal Intel WIFI | Works | No special procedure required during installation |
| Internal Intel Ethernet | Works | No special procedure required during installation |
| Intel HDA SoundCard | Works | No special procedure required during installation for PLAYBACK If you want to CAPTURE with integrated microphone see instructions here |
This laptop is operating under Kernel version [Linux boucaron-laptop 2.6.17-10-generic #2 SMP]
Basic Installation of [UBUNTU]:
- Why to use [UBUNTU]
- Because only one live CD that we can install, good support for auto detection of hardware
- Obtaining [UBUNTU]
- Installing
- Post-Install modifications/tweaks see below
Setting up additional features for [UBUNTU]
- Getting the CAPTURE of the soundcard working (line and microphone)
- Getting last NVIDIA driver works for xgl, compiz, beryl …etc…
- For XGL, Compiz, Beryl ….
- Download and install NVIDIA Drivers
- However if you reboot now you will do not have X11 working, actually because in UBUNTU nvidia is a “restricted” module and UBUNTU is having a service run at startup called /etc/init.d/linux-restricted-modules-common that “copy” files from /lib/linux-restricted-modules/2.6.17-10-generic/nvidia (our case) into the appropriate place in the /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/.
- The trick is the following after installing NVIDIA driver we just have to copy the nvidia.ko file from /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/ into /lib/linux-restricted-modules/2.6.17-10-generic/nvidia/ after removed present files in this directory. Take care also to remove /lib/linux-restricted-modules/2.6.17-10-generic/nvidia_legacy.
Configuration Files
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# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Mon Oct 16 22:13:07 PDT 2006
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type “man /etc/X11/xorg.conf” at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Default Layout”
Screen “Default Screen” 0 0
InputDevice “Generic Keyboard”
InputDevice “Configured Mouse”
InputDevice “stylus” “SendCoreEvents”
InputDevice “cursor” “SendCoreEvents”
InputDevice “eraser” “SendCoreEvents”
InputDevice “Synaptics Touchpad”
EndSection
Section “Files”
# path to defoma fonts
FontPath “/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc”
FontPath “/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic”
FontPath “/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1″
FontPath “/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi”
FontPath “/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc”
FontPath “/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType”
EndSection
Section “Module”
Load “i2c”
Load “bitmap”
Load “ddc”
Load “extmod”
Load “freetype”
Load “glx”
Load “int10″
Load “type1″
Load “vbe”
EndSection
Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Generic Keyboard”
Driver “kbd”
Option “CoreKeyboard”
Option “XkbRules” “xorg”
Option “XkbModel” “pc105″
Option “XkbLayout” “fr”
Option “XkbOptions” “lv3:ralt_switch”
EndSection
Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Configured Mouse”
Driver “mouse”
Option “CorePointer”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option “Protocol” “ExplorerPS/2″
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5″
Option “Emulate3Buttons” “true”
EndSection
Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Synaptics Touchpad”
Driver “synaptics”
Option “SendCoreEvents” “true”
Option “Device” “/dev/psaux”
Option “Protocol” “auto-dev”
Option “HorizScrollDelta” “0″
EndSection
Section “InputDevice”
# /dev/input/event
# for USB
Identifier “stylus”
Driver “wacom”
Option “Device” “/dev/wacom” # Change to
Option “Type” “stylus”
Option “ForceDevice” “ISDV4″ # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection
Section “InputDevice”
# /dev/input/event
# for USB
Identifier “eraser”
Driver “wacom”
Option “Device” “/dev/wacom” # Change to
Option “Type” “eraser”
Option “ForceDevice” “ISDV4″ # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection
Section “InputDevice”
# /dev/input/event
# for USB
Identifier “cursor”
Driver “wacom”
Option “Device” “/dev/wacom” # Change to
Option “Type” “cursor”
Option “ForceDevice” “ISDV4″ # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection
Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Generic Monitor”
HorizSync 28.0 – 64.0
VertRefresh 43.0 – 60.0
Option “DPMS”
EndSection
Section “Device”
#Driver “nv”
Identifier “NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA Default Card”
Driver “nvidia”
# Option “XAANoOffscreenPixmaps”
Option “TripleBuffer” “True”
EndSection
Section “Screen”
Identifier “Default Screen”
Device “NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA Default Card”
Monitor “Generic Monitor”
DefaultDepth 24
Option “RenderAccel” “true”
Option “AllowGLXWithComposite” “true”
SubSection “Display”
Depth 1
Modes “1280×800″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 4
Modes “1280×800″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 8
Modes “1280×800″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 15
Modes “1280×800″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 16
Modes “1280×800″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 24
Modes “1280×800″
EndSubSection
Option “AddARGBGLXVisuals” “True”
EndSection
Section “Extensions”
Option “Composite” “Enable”
EndSection
Section “DRI”
Mode 0666
EndSection - Modules options for sound card, append this to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
options snd-hda-intel model=vaio position_fix=0
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