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• Contact: RichardGould

• Make: Sony
• Brand: Vaio
• Model: VGN-FS660/W

• Website: http://esupport.sony.com/perl/model-home.pl?mdl=VGNFS660W

Current Issues

* 3-D Acceleration: Does glxinfo return the line "direct rendering: Yes"?

• Start a terminal and type the following:

  glxinfo | grep rendering

  This will print either "direct rendering: Yes" or "direct rendering: No"

After install, glxinfo | grep rendering returns "direct rendering: No".

Hardware details

Notes

This model is similar to the VGN-FS630W and some of these fixes are taken from there. A lot of other help has been gleaned from Beyond Abstraction.

Fixing Reboot: Add reboot=h to your kernel line in the grub menu (/boot/grub/menu.lst):

kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-10-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet splash reboot=h

Screen: After X starts, I can no longer get the console to display (when you reboot/shutdown or hit Ctrl-Alt-F1, screen goes black. If you have a second monitor plugged in, you can see the console on that screen.) Haven't found a fix. This problem was introduced in Hoary.

External Monitor: Only tested very very briefly. No output while X was up, but console screen appeared during reboot.

Hibernation/Sleep: The system seems to enter these modes correctly, but I have yet to have it successfully return.

FN Keys: Worked after I followed this thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-335267-highlight-sonypi.html

Touchpad: Got side-scrolling to work after figuring out which device and protocol to use. See my xorg.conf provided on this page. Added  Load "synaptics"  to the Modules section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf (I don't think this was necessary. It looks like synaptics is being loaded twice now, but I'm not sure where the other instance is). To determine what device to use, try  cat /proc/bus/input/devices  and look for the section that contains  "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint".  It should say  Handlers=mouse2 event3 ts2  or something similar. I used event3. You can try  cat /dev/input/event3  and move your finger on the touchpad. If you see garbage, that means you can probably use it. For the Protocol value, "event" seems to work when I chose event3. Other values are "psaux" and "auto-dev" (automatic). Ubuntu seems to default to /dev/psaux and auto-dev. I took the parameters for the Synaptics InputDevice driver from the FS630/W page. Beyond Abstraction also has another configuration available.

xorg.conf:

# /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 "Files"
        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/CID"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
        # paths to defoma fonts
        FontPath        "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
        FontPath        "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load    "GLcore"
        Load    "i2c"
        Load    "bitmap"
        Load    "ddc"
        Load    "dri"
        Load    "extmod"
        Load    "freetype"
        Load    "glx"
        Load    "int10"
        Load    "type1"
        Load    "vbe"
        Load    "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc104"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
        Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier    "Synaptics Touchpad"
  Driver        "synaptics"
  Option        "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
  # try cat /dev/input/event3 and move your finger on the touchpad - if there is output, use it
  Option        "Device"        "/dev/input/event3"
  Option        "Protocol"      "event"
        Option "AlwaysCore"
        Option "LeftEdge" "120"
        Option "RightEdge" "830"
        Option "TopEdge" "120"
        Option "BottomEdge" "650"
        Option "FingerLow" "14"
        Option "FingerHigh" "15"
        Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
        Option "MaxTapMove" "110"
        Option "ClickTime" "0"
        Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "75"
        Option "VertScrollDelta" "10"
        Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
        Option "MinSpeed" "0.45"
        Option "MaxSpeed" "0.75"
        Option "AccelFactor" "0.020"
        Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "200"
        Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "200"
        Option "UpDownScrolling" "1"
        Option "CircularScrolling" "0"
        Option "CircScrollDelta" "0.1"
        Option "CircScrollTrigger" "2"
        Option "SHMConfig" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "NVIDIA Corporation NV40M? [GeForce Go 6200]"
        Driver          "nvidia"
        BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
        #renderAccel has memory leak
        Option          "RenderAccel"   "false"
        Option          "NoLogo"
        # for binary suspend support
        Option          "NvAGP"       "1"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Generic Monitor"
        Option          "DPMS"
        HorizSync       28-64
        VertRefresh     43-60
        Modeline        "1280x800@60" 83.91 1280 1312 1624 1656 800 816 824 841
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Device          "NVIDIA Corporation NV40M? [GeForce Go 6200]"
        Monitor         "Generic Monitor"
        DefaultDepth    16
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           1
                Modes           "1280x800"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           4
                Modes           "1280x800"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           8
                Modes           "1280x800"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           15
                Modes           "1280x800"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           16
                Modes           "1280x800"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           24
                Modes           "1280x800"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Default Layout"
        Screen          "Default Screen"
        InputDevice     "Generic Keyboard"
        InputDevice     "Configured Mouse"
        InputDevice     "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Mode    0666
EndSection