SonyVGN-SR19VN

  • Contact: slipiefreak at hotmail dot com
  • Make: Sony
  • Brand: Vaio
  • Model: VGN SR19VN
  • Website: http://www.sony.com

Current Issues

Hardy:

  • Intel wireless Lan card is not recognized by default
  • Setting and mode buttons are not working
  • Screen brightness is not adjustable with fn buttons
  • fn buttons are partialy working (only for volume)

Intrepid Ibex:

  • Setting and mode buttons are not working
  • Screen brightness is not adjustable with fn buttons
  • fn buttons are partialy working (only for volume)

Karmic:

  • Setting and mode buttons are not working
  • Laptop cannot return from suspend

Hardware details

Hardy

Intrepid Ibex

Karmic

Installation works?

Yes

Yes

Yes

Hardware Information

Screen & Monitors

Device

Works?

Bug #

in Hardy?

in Intrepid Ibex?

In Karmic?

Screen

Works

Works

Works

Correct resolution?

Yes

Yes

Yes

Correct refresh rate?

Yes

Yes

Yes

3D Acceleration

Yes

Yes

Yes

External monitor works?

Untested

Untested

Untested

External monitor - mirrors

Untested

Untested

Untested

External monitor - extend desktop

Untested

Untested

Untested

Power Management

Battery detected?

yes

yes

yes

Hibernates?

Yes (but with a lot of error messages)

Untested

Untested

Sleep

Yes

Yes

No

Dim monitor on battery

No

Yes

Yes

Blank monitor on inactivity

yes

Yes

Yes

Lid Close

turns off screen correctly

turns off screen correctly

turns off screen correctly

Cpu frequency scaling

No

Untested

Untested

Sound

Sound works?

Yes

Yes

Yes

Correct volume?

yes

Yes

Yes

Hardware volume switch

Yes

Yes

Yes

Headphone jack

Yes

Yes

Yes

Mic jack

Untested

Untested

Untested

Networking

Wired NIC

Yes

Yes

Yes

Wireless NIC

Yes but with manual installation of the driver and firmware (see notes)

Yes

Yes

PCMCIA NIC

Untested

Untested

Untested

Firewire

Untested

Untested

Untested

Bluetooth

Yes

Yes

Yes

Modem

Untested

Untested

Untested

Infrared

Untested

Untested

Untested

Touchpad & Mice

Touchpad

Yes

Yes

Yes

Touchpad - Scroll down side

Yes

Yes

Yes

External mouse - USB

Yes

Yes

Yes

Docking Station/Port Replicator

AC through replicator

Untested

Untested

Untested

USB

Untested

Untested

Untested

Serial

Untested

Untested

Untested

Parallel

Untested

Untested

Untested

External Monitor - VGA

Untested

Untested

Untested

External Monitor - DVI

Untested

Untested

Untested

Modem

Untested

Untested

Untested

NIC

Untested

Untested

Untested

PS/2

Untested

Untested

Untested

Additional Hardware

Fingerprint reader

No

Untested

Untested

CD/DVD drive

Yes

Yes

Yes

PCMCIA cards

Untested

Untested

Untested

Parallel Ports

Untested

Untested

Untested

Card reader(s)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Build-in Webcam

Yes

Yes

Yes

Fixing Issues

  • Intel Wireless LAN

To get wireless working with Hardy you have take the following steps:

- Download wireless compat

wget http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-old.tar.bz2

- Untar the driver in /usr/src

sudo su
cd /usr/src
tar xjf compat-wireless-old.tar.bz2
cd compat-wireless-2008-08-06

- Edit the config.mk and add the following two lines to get 5100 support

CONFIG_IWL5000=y
CONFIG_IWLWIFI_RFKILL=y

- Download firmware

wget http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi/downloads/iwlwifi-5000-ucode-5.4.A.11.tar.gz

- Untar the firmware and copy it to the current kernel firmware libraries

tar xzf iwlwifi-5000-ucode-5.4.A.11.tar.gz
sudo cp iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode /lib/firmware/2.6.24-19-generic/

- Now go back to the driver (/usr/src/compat-wireless-2008-08-06) and make it

sudo su
make
make install
make load

Notes

Test is still in progress for Karmic

LaptopTestingTeam/SonyVGN-SR19VN (last edited 2009-11-01 09:48:34 by a80-101-145-198)