Linux users of Sony Z1 series

[Rainer Jochem <>]

Hello,

> The common netiquette about mailing list ask us to present ourselves to
> other subscribers.

that's a quite good idea, so here we go:

I'm Rainer Jochem, 23, currently studying computer science at Saarland
University in Germany and also own a Z1 XMP and have almost everything 
running now what I currently need (except the touchpad with scrolling 
functionality and suspend modes).


> I own a Sony Vaio Z1 xmp since april 2004 with a Gnu/Linux Gentoo with
> linux 2.6.4 (actually). I've wrote a 60 pages LaTeX documentation
> (in french, sorry) 

hmm... just read it -- somehow I just like the computer terms in
french language... everything sounds twice as interesting ;)


> which is downloadable on my website
> (http://www.iero.org) to explain how to configure (not install, just
> configure) the distro to work on Z1 laptops. 

I guess if one translates this document into english and perhaps
add some other configurations with additional tips&tricks from other
people here, this will be a quite good reference.


> For the community, an idea will be to write in common (together) a
> complete documentation which cover all the different parts of our z1
> computers. It will be quick I think, because gnu/linux is working very
> well on sony's computers.

Exactly... that's also the case why I've bought me this sony instead
of some other (and perhaps cheaper) laptop because almost everything
just works out of the box.


> They are other jobs to realize too. For exemple :
> - The winmodem ich4
> - The ipw2200 project for the wifi part

well, once it is completed :)

> - the suspend mode

yep... has anyone here some experience with it? e.g. getting at least
suspend to disk working or so?


> For the moment, I will not be very active, because, I'm in summer
> hollydays, on the beach, and my laptops generally doesn't like the sand
> and the salt watter :-)

So, happy holidays then :)


Cheers,

 Rainer

-- 
http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/~rainer/

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