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Anyone here use Linux on Sony Vaio AR590E?

post #1 of 21
11/8/07 at 3:56am
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So far I've tried Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10, and I have a few problems

1. Some of the special keys don't work.
- Eject
- S1
- S2
- Play/Pause, Stop, Previous, Next
- Brightness Keys
2. I don't get sound through the headphone jack, though the speakers work without a problem
3. Blu-ray discs are not getting mounted (Video and data, both)

I haven't tried using memorysticks but I guess I'll have a problem with that too but not too bothered about that right now. I guess even the S-Video and HDMI might not work but I haven't tested those either to be sure.
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Things that worked right out of the box

- Touchpad
- Volume Up/Down
- Mute button
- Wireless Card
- Bluetooth
- GeForce card drivers was available as a restricted driver, which I enabled, and it worked great
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It didn't detect my RAID0 configuration so I disabled that before installing Ubuntu. I might have not tried hard enough to set it up, i.e, using dmraid or something, but at that time, I was more eager to setup Linux on the laptop.

Anyone here who can help me fix what I couldn't get to work? Being able to reduce the brightness is the most important one amongst these.
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post #2 of 21
11/8/07 at 7:34pm
sony has a history of using proprietary junk to make things not work right. but at least your are trying so kudos.

touchpad : i know you said it "works" but do the scroll areas work? you might need to install synaptics and configure in xorg.conf to enable that

dedicated hardware buttons: go to Administration > Keyboard Shortcuts (or something of this nature.. haven't used gnome in a while so don't remember exactly) and set them up one by one. for example, find where it says "Eject" click it...then press the hardware eject button, and so forth. First things first...type "eject -r" in terminal to make sure the command itself is properly configured. If not go to synaptic and find "eject"

headphone jack: that is indeed strange. gotta wait for seablade to answer that one since he is the linux audio guru here.

bluray: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...BluRayAndHDDVD read and see if it will help.
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post #3 of 21
11/9/07 at 5:16pm
Thread Starter 
Yes the scroll area also worked without any configuration, but I did use gsynaptics to enable tap and drag.

As for the multimedia keys, I tried the keyboard shortcuts too. But whats funny is that there is response when I press those buttons, It gives the output XF86AudioPause, XF86AudioStop, etc but they don't do anything in the Audio and Video players, which is strange. Probably won't do without a driver.

I checked out the Ubuntu forum and some people were able to get everything working on older Vaio models using either sonypi or the sony-laptop drivers. But this laptop being a very new model, I guess its a matter of time until someone writes a driver for it.

The Blu-ray discs are not getting mounted. I'll need to get it to mount before I can try to rip videos. Maybe its a driver problem for that as well.
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post #4 of 21
11/10/07 at 12:51am
Seablade has left his sanity for the time being... if you would like to leave a message, please do so at the beep....

BEEP

Seablade

Opened a show tonight that has taken ALL of his time, I will reply when I get time to look at the laptop and audio module for it. Might be a couple of days though.
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post #5 of 21
11/11/07 at 9:04pm
Do me a favor, post up your lspci -v and lsmod outputs? First glance puts that as a strange audio chip I might not be familiar with(Dang sony).

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post #6 of 21
11/15/07 at 3:40am
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Code:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
        Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9016
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 0c) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
        I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
        Memory behind bridge: cc000000-ceffffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d0000000-00000000dfffffff
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Contoller #4 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9016
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
        I/O ports at 1800 [size=32]

00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9016
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
        I/O ports at 1820 [size=32]

00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
        Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9016
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
        Memory at fc304800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9016
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
        Memory at fc300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
        I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff
        Memory behind bridge: f6000000-f7ffffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f0000000-00000000f1ffffff
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=05, sec-latency=0
        I/O behind bridge: 00004000-00004fff
        Memory behind bridge: f8000000-f9ffffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f2000000-00000000f3ffffff
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=07, sec-latency=0
        I/O behind bridge: 00005000-00005fff
        Memory behind bridge: fa000000-fbffffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f4000000-00000000f5ffffff
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9016
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
        I/O ports at 1840 [size=32]

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9016
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
        I/O ports at 1860 [size=32]

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9016
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
        I/O ports at 1880 [size=32]

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
        Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9016
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
        Memory at fc304c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=08, subordinate=0c, sec-latency=56
        I/O behind bridge: 0000f000-0000ffff
        Memory behind bridge: fc000000-fc0fffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000088000000-000000008bffffff
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HBM (ICH8M-E) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9016
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
        Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9016
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
        I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
        I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
        I/O ports at 18a0 [size=16]

00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 82801 SATA RAID Controller (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9016
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
        I/O ports at 18f0 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 18e8 [size=4]
        I/O ports at 18e0 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 18b4 [size=4]
        I/O ports at 18c0 [size=32]
        Memory at fc304000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9016
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
        Memory at 8c000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        I/O ports at 1c00 [size=32]

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600M GT (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9016
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
        Memory at ce000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Memory at cc000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
        I/O ports at 2000 [size=128]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
        Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9016
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
        Memory at f6000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at f0000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection (rev 61)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 1100
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
        Memory at fa000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

08:03.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
        Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9016
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 16
        Memory at fc004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Bus: primary=08, secondary=09, subordinate=0c, sec-latency=176
        Memory window 0: 88000000-8bfff000 (prefetchable)
        Memory window 1: 90000000-93fff000
        I/O window 0: 0000f000-0000f0ff
        I/O window 1: 0000f400-0000f4ff
        16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

08:03.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9016
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
        Memory at fc006000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
        Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

08:03.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)
        Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9016
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 57, IRQ 16
        Memory at fc005000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
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post #7 of 21
11/15/07 at 3:40am
Thread Starter 
Code:
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xt_limit                3584  8 
xt_tcpudp               4224  16 
ipt_LOG                 7552  8 
ipt_MASQUERADE          4608  0 
ipt_TOS                 3200  0 
ipt_REJECT              5760  1 
nf_conntrack_irc        8088  0 
nf_conntrack_ftp       11136  0 
xt_state                3456  6 
isofs                  36412  0 
udf                    87204  0 
rfcomm                 42136  2 
l2cap                  26240  11 rfcomm
sony_laptop            32088  0 
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ppdev                  10244  0 
acpi_cpufreq           10568  0 
cpufreq_ondemand        9612  2 
cpufreq_conservative     8072  0 
cpufreq_powersave       2688  0 
cpufreq_userspace       5280  0 
cpufreq_stats           7232  0 
freq_table              5792  3 acpi_cpufreq,cpufreq_ondemand,cpufreq_stats
container               5504  0 
ac                      6148  0 
battery                11012  3 
video                  18060  0 
button                  8976  0 
sbs                    19592  0 
dock                   10656  0 
af_packet              24840  8 
sbp2                   24072  0 
parport_pc             37412  0 
lp                     12580  0 
parport                37448  3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
arc4                    2944  2 
ecb                     4608  2 
blkcipher               7556  1 ecb
snd_hda_intel         263712  1 
snd_pcm_oss            44672  0 
snd_mixer_oss          17664  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                80388  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy           4740  0 
snd_seq_oss            33152  0 
snd_seq_midi            9600  0 
joydev                 11328  0 
uvcvideo               48644  0 
pcmcia                 41388  0 
iwl4965               101480  0 
snd_rawmidi            25728  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event      8448  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                53232  6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
compat_ioctl32          2304  1 uvcvideo
sr_mod                 17828  0 
hci_usb                18332  2 
snd_timer              24324  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
cdrom                  37536  1 sr_mod
iwlwifi_mac80211      175112  1 iwl4965
videodev               29312  1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat            15364  2 uvcvideo,videodev
v4l2_common            18432  2 uvcvideo,videodev
sky2                   46852  0 
nvidia               6221648  36 
snd_seq_device          9228  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
yenta_socket           27532  1 
bluetooth              57060  7 rfcomm,l2cap,hci_usb
cfg80211                7304  1 iwlwifi_mac80211
rsrc_nonstatic         14080  1 yenta_socket
i2c_core               26112  1 nvidia
snd                    54660  11 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
tifm_7xx1               8832  0 
tifm_core              11652  1 tifm_7xx1
intel_agp              25620  0 
agpgart                35016  2 nvidia,intel_agp
soundcore               8800  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         11400  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
serio_raw               8068  0 
shpchp                 34580  0 
pci_hotplug            32704  1 shpchp
psmouse                39952  0 
pcmcia_core            40980  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
evdev                  11136  9 
iptable_nat             8708  0 
nf_nat                 20140  2 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat
nf_conntrack_ipv4      19724  8 iptable_nat
nf_conntrack           65288  7 ipt_MASQUERADE,nf_conntrack_irc,nf_conntrack_ftp,xt_state,iptable_nat,nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4
nfnetlink               6936  3 nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack
iptable_mangle          3840  0 
iptable_filter          3968  1 
ip_tables              13924  3 iptable_nat,iptable_mangle,iptable_filter
x_tables               16260  9 xt_limit,xt_tcpudp,ipt_LOG,ipt_MASQUERADE,ipt_TOS,ipt_REJECT,xt_state,iptable_nat,ip_tables
ext3                  133896  1 
jbd                    60456  1 ext3
mbcache                 9732  1 ext3
sg                     36764  0 
ata_piix               17540  0 
sd_mod                 30336  7 
ohci1394               36528  0 
ieee1394               96312  2 sbp2,ohci1394
ata_generic             8452  0 
ahci                   23300  5 
libata                125168  3 ata_piix,ata_generic,ahci
scsi_mod              147084  5 sbp2,sr_mod,sg,sd_mod,libata
ehci_hcd               36492  0 
uhci_hcd               26640  0 
usbcore               138632  5 uvcvideo,hci_usb,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
thermal                14344  0 
processor              32072  2 acpi_cpufreq,thermal
fan                     5764  0 
fuse                   47124  7 
apparmor               40728  0 
commoncap               8320  1 apparmor
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post #8 of 21
11/15/07 at 11:37am
Ok gotta take a look at this a little later, so don't let me forget. However for the record the CODE tags work amazingly well at improving readibility for copy and pastes like this and keep them from taking up to much room.

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post #9 of 21
11/15/07 at 2:37pm
Using synaptic, check your version you have installed of ALSA and post up the version for me? There apparently were some problems with that chip in older versions and 7.10 ships with one of those versions, but apparently it is fixed in the newer version.

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post #10 of 21
11/15/07 at 4:01pm
Just in case I need it later, mind posting the output of...

grep Codec /proc/asound/card0/codec#*

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post #11 of 21
11/16/07 at 11:37pm
Thread Starter 
Alsa version is 1.0.14
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/proc/asound/card0/codec#0:Codec: SigmaTel CXD9872AKD
/proc/asound/card0/codec#1:Codec: Conexant ID 2c06
/proc/asound/card0/codec#2:Codec: Realtek ALC262
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post #12 of 21
11/17/07 at 12:05am
Go ahead and update your Alsa version through synaptic and see if that makes a difference. If that doesn't work a solution for a related problem that may apply here involves backporting your kernel version slightly, but lets see if updating your ALSA drivers will do it.

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post #13 of 21
1/20/08 at 8:25am
Any luck with getting output from the headphone jack?
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post #14 of 21
2/23/08 at 6:01am
Thread Starter 
Hi again,

Sorry I had been out of town. I tried updating alsa (there was no update in the repositories so I compiled it from source using the guide given here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HdaIntelSoundHowto ) and now my sound does not work at all from the past 3 months

This is my dmesg output

[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_add
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_add
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_new
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_new
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_limit_hw_rates
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_limit_hw_rates
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_register
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_card_register
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_free
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_card_free
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_pages_for_all
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_pages_for_all
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_proc_new
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_card_proc_new
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_find_id
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_find_id
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_new1
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_new1
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_component_add
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_component_add
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_new
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_card_new
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_lib_malloc_pages
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_malloc_pages
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_lib_ioctl
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_ioctl
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_lib_free_pages
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_free_pages
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_elem_read
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_elem_write
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_set_ops
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_set_ops
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_list
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_list
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_device_new
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_device_new
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_suspend_all
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_suspend_all
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_disconnect
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_card_disconnect
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_integer
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_integer
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_period_elapsed
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_period_elapsed
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_step
[ 16.176000] snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_step
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post #15 of 21
2/23/08 at 12:19pm
Hmm something is not matching between ALSA libs there.

When you compiled from source, did you remove the old version completely?

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post #16 of 21
2/23/08 at 6:11pm
Thread Starter 
No I didn't. That page said it will not interfere with Ubuntu packages, so I thought it was unecessary. I tried removing them and compiling it again, but still have the same problem.
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post #17 of 21
2/23/08 at 6:15pm
Thread Starter 
Any idea which distro has updated version of ALSA? I'm downloading Fedora right now, though no idea if I'll have the same problem or worse.
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post #18 of 21
2/23/08 at 8:08pm
Try out some LiveCDs first if you want to try other distros. One I tend to recommend a bit recently is eLive (www.elivecd.org) so give that one a try and see if sound works on it. I can't remember what version of ALSA it has with it though, thus why LiveCDs are a good thing

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post #19 of 21
4/11/08 at 12:59pm
working fine on mine except the blasted bluetooth but i just disabled it since i don't use it..lol
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post #20 of 21
6/10/08 at 8:26am
Thread Starter 
I got it to work with Fedora today.

The internal mic doesnt work. I dont know about the mic port though cause I dont have a mic to check that.

The red light from the optical out port doesnt work so I dont know if that ports works either. I will have to test that when I get a set of speakers.

Thanks for all the help from this forum. I still have a long way to go to reach 100% compatibility, but sadly as I buy a new Vaio almost ever year, I will be back to square one with the next model.

Next thing I need to work on Linux is the brightness control. Not having much luck with that either. Thats the only other major thing I need to get fixed.

As with bluetooth, memory stick ports, etc, I think that would work in VMware, so not a big deal.
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