While my Sony is a PCG-GRT170, I think my experience might help you. Knoppix correctly detected everything except the Sony-only hardware control buttons like volume and screen brightness. That gave me a reference whenever I needed to know things like what the sound card was, or video. In fact, I copied the Knoppix-generated /etc/X11/XF86conf-4 file as a whole after trying to get X working by hand.
It yours has a touchpad too, you might have to add "psmouse proto=imps" as a boot parameter to kernel 2.6.11. In lilo.conf I have append="noapic noscsi psmouse proto=imps" I didn't need the psmouse parameter until 2.6.11, you may not either, but I found the noapic and noscsi to be required to get the machine to boot at all. Good luck! Sony makes beautiful hardware. My only objection is that there is no way to clean the internal fan and cooling fins. After about 12 months, it overheats and I have to take it in for "repair" just to clean it up. Stupid design flaw! On Friday 17 June 2005 12:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: > Hi everyone; > > I'm preparing to make the switch from Fedora to Debian. My main box > is a Sony VGN-S260 laptop. Has anyone experienced Debian on this > model ? Is there any general Debian/laptop advice you can offer? > > Thanks in advance for your help. I've read lots about the Debian > distro and I am looking forward to using it.. from what I read it > looks like you al have your act together and have produced an > awesome distro... -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
