Posted in Posts, tagged gentoo, hardware, linux on May 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have summarized all my previous posts about running Gentoo on a Sony Vaio TZ laptop, and added some more tips & tricks. You can find the article at my website.
Posted in Posts, tagged gentoo, h4x0r, hardware, linux on April 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For some bizarre reason the silly people working at Sony decided to disable the Intel VT extensions by default. But hackers are always smarter than stupid salesmen making decisions in some random department of a Enormous Big Company™: there is a way to re-enable VT extensions.
Big FAT warning: I have only checked this with a [...]
Posted in Posts, tagged floss, gentoo, h4x0r, hardware on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
This is a small update on where to find the driver for the Ricoh r5u870 webcam properly packaged for Gentoo GNU/Linux. This driver is needed in order to use the webcam present in some HP Pavillion and Sony Vaio (including my TZ11) laptops.
If you have read my previous post, you already know it: the hard [...]
Posted in Posts, tagged floss, gentoo, hardware on March 15, 2008 | No Comments »
The hard disk of my old (but working) iBook G3 has died yesterday. This means all the stuff which was hanging on foobar.homeunix.org, including my Gentoo overlay, some photo albums and other random stuff will not be available in a while. This also includes mailing lists at ml.mine.nu. Sorry for the inconvenience, and expect updates [...]
Posted in Posts, tagged floss, gentoo, hardware, linux on March 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yes, yes, yes! The thing started working reliably today, at last! The software combo which makes the thing work is as follows:
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.24-r3. I believe that any kernel version in the 2.6.24 series will do the thing. The ALSA code included in newer releases also fixes the problem with the built-in speakers and they will no [...]
Posted in Posts, tagged devel, floss, gentoo, hardware, linux on January 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Alex Hixon has just released version 0.11.0 of the r5u870 driver, which supports the webcam present in the Vaio TZ11MN laptops (amongst others). I have updated my overlay with an ebuild for this release. Enjoy!
Posted in Posts, tagged floss, gentoo, hardware, linux on January 13, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Today I have found this page, which has a ready-to-use version of the r5u870 webcam driver for Linux. I have also added an ebuild to Gentoo bug #176824 which fetches driver sources using Subversion, so you will get always the latest working code when installing. Heck, I am starting to think I should publish my [...]
Posted in Posts, tagged hardware, review on December 3, 2007 | 6 Comments »
This article is made up of my impressions of the Sony Vaio TZ11MN/N laptop, one month after I started using it in a daily basis. I have already written some random notes on how well the hardware is supported by the Linux kernel, so this time I will try to focus on hardware.
The laptop comes [...]
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