SonyVaioS3XP
Contact: LinusGLarsson
- Make: Sony
- Brand: Vaio
- Model: VGN-S3XP
Current Issues
Hibernation doesn't work, at least not with the nvidia driver. UPDATE! 2005-11-09: In Breezy, Hibernate (Suspend to disk) works. Even when on battery power. At least once, I will do more extensive testing. What's more, all I had to do was press the Fn key and F12, which has a Zzzz->disk icon on it. When I turned it on, the screen was blank at first (as usual when it didn't work). I tried to do Ctrl-Alt-Backspace twice to kill X, but lo and behold it didn't kill X instead I got a Unlock screen window. I logged in and everything was there as I left it. Awesome.
Function keys doesn't work. Erik Waling has made a patch to sonypi which is said to fix this, at least for the S4 series (which seems to be basically the same laptop). However, I haven't had the time to test this yet. Update (2005-09-05): I have patched sonypi, and it indeed works. The Fn keys now send acpi events. I have not tried any tools to handle these events yet, but I intend to asap. The patch is available from http://www.acc.umu.se/~erikw/program/patch-2.6.12.3-sonypi_type3_models
Setting screen brightness doesn't work out of the box, but using the tool SmartDimmer by Erik Waling it is possible. SmartDimmer is available from http://www.acc.umu.se/~erikw/program/smartdimmer-0.1.tar.bz2
Hardware details
Hardware Information |
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Screen & Monitors |
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Device |
Works? |
Bug # |
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in Hoary (previous stable)? |
in Breezy (current stable)? |
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Screen |
Yes |
Yes |
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Correct resolution? |
Yes |
Yes |
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Correct refresh rate? |
Yes |
Yes |
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3D Acceleration |
Yes |
Yes |
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External monitor works? |
Untested |
Untested |
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External monitor - mirrors |
Untested |
Untested |
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External monitor - extend desktop |
Untested |
Untested |
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Power Management |
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Battery detected? |
Yes |
Yes |
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Hibernates? |
No |
Yes |
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Sleep |
No |
No |
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Dim/Blank monitor? |
See Current Issues |
See Current Issues |
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Sound |
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Sound works? |
Yes |
Yes |
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Correct volume? |
Yes |
Yes |
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Hardware volume switch |
N/A |
N/A |
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Headphone jack |
Yes |
Yes |
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Mic jack |
Untested |
Untested |
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Networking |
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Wired NIC |
Untested |
Yes |
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Wireless NIC |
Yes |
Yes |
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PCMCIA NIC |
Untested |
Untested |
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Firewire |
Untested |
Yes |
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Bluetooth |
Yes |
Yes |
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Modem |
Untested |
Untested |
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Touchpad & Mice |
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Touchpad |
Yes |
Yes |
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Touchpad - Doubletap = double click |
Yes |
Yes |
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Touchpad - Scroll down side |
Yes |
No. See Notes |
5734 (?) |
External mouse - USB |
Untested |
Untested |
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External mouse - Serial |
Untested |
Untested |
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Docking Station/Port Replicator |
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AC through replicator |
Untested |
Untested |
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USB |
Untested |
Untested |
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Serial |
Untested |
Untested |
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Parallel |
Untested |
Untested |
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External Monitor - VGA |
Untested |
Untested |
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External Monitor - DVI |
Untested |
Untested |
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Modem |
Untested |
Untested |
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NIC |
Untested |
Untested |
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PS/2 |
Untested |
Untested |
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Additional Hardware |
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CD/DVD drive |
Yes |
Yes |
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PCMCIA cards |
Untested |
Untested |
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Untested |
No. See notes for driver "rumor". |
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Function and other keys |
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Fn key |
Operation |
Keycode |
Works? |
Bug # |
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in Hoary (previous stable)? |
in Breezy (current stable)? |
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+ F2 |
Mute |
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No |
Yes (see Current Issues) |
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+ F3 |
Volume down |
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No |
Yes (see ...) |
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+ F4 |
Volume up |
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No |
Yes |
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+ F5 |
Brightness down |
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No |
Yes |
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+ F6 |
Brightness up |
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No |
Yes |
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+ F7 |
Switch to external monitor |
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No |
Yes |
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+ F12 |
Hibernate |
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No |
Yes |
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+ Num Lk |
Scroll lock |
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No |
Yes |
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+ Insert |
Pause |
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No |
Yes |
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+ Delete |
Break |
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No |
Yes |
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+ Up |
Page up |
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Yes |
Yes |
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+ Down |
Page down |
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Yes |
Yes |
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+ Left |
Home |
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Yes |
Yes |
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+ Right |
End |
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Yes |
Yes |
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Other special keys |
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Key |
Operation |
Keycode |
Works? |
Bug # |
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in Hoary (current stable)? |
in Breezy (current development)? |
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Key |
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Untested |
Untested |
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Notes
In Breezy, the synaptics driver seems to be overridden somehow when X loads. The touchpad works, but none of the special stuff like right/middle click and scrolling works. Update (2005-09-05): Since a couple of days back, the touchpad works better again. I haven't had time to investigate much, but I guess it's because of Daniel Stone's latest fix, see his comment: http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5734#c23 . However, the touchpad is now very sensitive to tap-to-click and a little "jittery". Update: It doesn't work in stable Breezy.
For more information on screen brightness, function keys and other issues relating this laptop, see http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-361872.html
A driver for the TI PCI7x20 flash memory chip is mentioned here, but the actual driver is nowhere to be found. Really annoying. I have e-mailed TI but still awaiting answer (2005-11-09). The webpage: http://www.everestinc.com/fml.htm
LaptopTestingTeam/Old/SonyVaioS3XP (last edited 2010-02-26 18:12:08 by host226-241-dynamic)