HARDWARE Sony Vaio VGN-T150

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Okay, this isn't a full howto, but I wanted to note that I've got Gentoo 2007.0 working quite happily on a Sony Vaio VGN-T150, including:

• WXGA video at 1280x768
  • Emerge sys-apps/855resolution and set the 1280x768 in /etc/conf.d/855resolution
  • I've read this has problems when resuming from suspend mode, but I don't have suspend more working yet (I haven't tried).
• Sound
  • Configure your kernel with ALSA->PCI Devices->Intel/SiS/nVidia/AMD/ALi AC97 Controller|Modem
  • Make sure the External device IS muted using the ALSAmixer (`emerge media-sound/alsa-utils && alsamixer`)
• Wireless
  • Configure your kernel with Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)->Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG
  • Configure your kernel with all the Networking->IEEE 802.11* options (to support wireless encryption) (I forgot and the kernel is compiling now. It works great with non-encrypted networks. I bet it will work with encrypted ones now too.)
  • emerge wpa_supplicant and in /etc/conf.d/net:

modules=("wpa_supplicant")
wpa_supplicant_eth2="-Dwext"

• Battery monitor
  • Configure your kernel with Character Devices->Sony Vaio Programmable I/O Controller...

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