Sony Vaio S1XP info

[Thom May]

* James Blackwell (jblack at merconline.com) wrote :
> 
> 2. This vaio needs hacks to the sonypi driver that are in 2.6.8 but not in
> 2.6.7. Without sonypi, you're unable to change the backlight. Luckily, if
> you set the backlight to max in windows, you can get along pretty well.
> 
> 4. As with all recent laptops, the onboard wireless is a ipw2200.
> 
The test kernels that Matt posted about yesterday should fix both of these.

> 5. No free software 3d acceleration (2d accel is ok) with the ATI
> Mobility Radeon 9700.
>
Nope, this is expected. We made a decision that we wouldn't ship binary 3d
drivers at warty conf.
 
> 7. The automatic cpu throttlers (cpudyn, cpufreq) don't seem to work? 
Need more info. Does powernowd load the correct modules? Does powernowd
start and run?

Cheers,
-Thom