Comments on: Installing Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope on a Sony Vaio

By: Prasenjeet

Prasenjeet — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:01:42 +0000

Stop hiding behind the “oh hardware manufacturers don’t cooperate” line.

The Atheros drivers are open source. So are the Intel display drivers. In the case of the display drivers, they even worked in Ubuntu 8.10. Canonical basically said, right, let’s ship even though we have a nasty regression that affects one of the most common display cards out there. You don’t see too many responsible software vendors do that.

By: Annoyed

Annoyed — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:45:10 +0000

“Looks like the year of Linux on the desktop/laptop is still a few years off”

That looks like such an ignorant comment. Try installing Windows on a machine it’s not built for, without the drivers, without co-operation from hardware manufacturers. You’ve been so brainwashed by the Microsoft Kool Aid you can’t think straight.

By: Prasenjeet

Prasenjeet — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:52:05 +0000

A VGN-NR32M/S. I don’t think I’ve gotten the brightness control to work either — but I can blame Sony for that, I guess. But shipping Jaunty with broken wireless *and* display drivers … not cool.

By: animaster

animaster — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:23:58 +0000

Which VAIO are you using? I am using Ubuntu 9.04 on my VGN-SZ430N and almost everything works out-of-the-box.
The only unfunctional components are fingerprint sensor and brightness control.

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