Linux users of Sony Z1 series

[Stuart Shelton <>]

> I've been patiently waiting for an rpm for sonyxosd to come out as it was
> once prompted in one of your posts... ;-) Any chance to get it anytime 
> soon? Or, perhaps, could there be a statically compiled package not to 
> bother with all these perl stuff that merely exists packaged for 
> Mandrake, for instance...

Hi,

I'm afraid that I use Gentoo only on my machines - the last RPM-based 
distro I used was RedHat 7.3...

However, if anyone (you?) want to have a go at creating an RPM yourself, 
then I'm perfectly happy to give you all the assistance I can!

As for the additional modules that sonyxosd uses - if your distro of 
choice doesn't include them, there's always CPAN.  Of course, this isn't 
ideal for less experienced users, so perhaps the creation of an RPM 
featuring all the necessary modules from CPAN and sonyxosd would be a 
great idea...

On a related topic, there has not been an update to sonyxosd for a while 
now - but I'm just in the final stages of testing a new release.  The new 
version reacts much more swiftly when audio feedback is enabled, and 
should be generally a lot more resilient.  It's much better at not 
occasionally disappearing, as it sometimes does do right now.

I'm off on holiday for two weeks from this Saturday, so I'll try to make 
this new version available before then, along with an updated version of 
bluetool.

Keep an eye on http://www.sony-tools.homeunix.net/news.html for updates :)

Cheers,

        Stuart