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[John Mark Walker]

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Vincent - would love to get your take on F-Series Vaios.

-JM


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From: Vincent <eternalrecycler at gmail.com>
To: "The UbuCon Mailing List" <theubucon at theubucon.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:04:13 -0500
Subject: Re: [TheUbuCon] IRC Meeting Notes
I may be able to say a word or two about the older Sony Vaio F-Series laptops.

They can suffer from sudden shutdown syndrome.   Installers absolutely
need to put in two boot parameters.   One turns off the HLT CPU
instruction ("no-hlt") and I can't recall the other one.   WIthout the
two, the laptop shuts down as soon as it starts loading the kernel.

HTH ...

Vincent


On 1/27/07, John Mark Walker <johnmark at johnmark.org> wrote:
> On 1/26/07, Kevin Wang <kjw at google.com> wrote:
> > Linux on laptops?  that's tricky given that laptops have all sorts of
> > strange problems.
>
> It's true... and that's why I want at least a couple of knowledgable
> people to help guide the session. Someone that could explain things
> like ACPI would be great. But you're right, each laptop has such
> different implementations, that I need someone that could talk a few
> minutes about the new macbooks, someone that could discuss thinkpads,
> and someone else to talk about another laptop. Basically, a few people
> presenting different recipes.
>
> >
> > but for those who use laptops, let me know if this sounds interesting:
> >
> > http://rightsock.com/~kjw/Tech/linux-laptops.html
> >
> > (specifically, the script).
>
> Hmm... that is interesting. I could see that being one part of a
> laptop discussion.
>
> >
> > that page's text needs updating.  I'll do that this weekend.
>
> Cool. Let me know how that goes.
>
> -JM
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