Linux Laptop & Notebook Installation Guides: SONY

Linux installation and configuration guides for VAIO PCG, VAIO VGN laptops and notebooks made by Sony. Compatibility reports about running other Unix systems e.g. BSD, Solaris are welcome, too. And don't miss the resources section at the bottom, containing links to applications, tools, utilities, drivers, community portals, HOWTOs and FAQs. Do you have written an installation tutorial yourself? Please submit a new report.

Sony VAIO PCG-505	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-505	FreeBSD
Sony VAIO PCG-505	RedHat 5.2
Sony VAIO PCG-505	Linux, FreeBSD	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-505	FreeBSD
Sony VAIO PCG-505	FreeBSD	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-505	Solaris 8	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-505	FreeBSD	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-505 (SR7K)	RedHat 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, FreeBSD
Sony VAIO PCG-505CT	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-505EX	RedHat	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-505EX	RedHat 4.2	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-505EX/64 [PDF]	Mandriva (Mandrake) 8.1
Sony VAIO PCG-505F	Debian 2.0, 2.1
Sony VAIO PCG-505F	RedHat 6.0
Sony VAIO PCG-505FX	RedHat 5.2
Sony VAIO PCG-505FX	RedHat 5.2, FreeBSD
Sony VAIO PCG-505FX	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-505GX	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-505GX	Linux	Castilian
Sony VAIO PCG-505GX	Linux	German
Sony VAIO PCG-505GX	Linux	French
Sony VAIO PCG-505GX	Linux	Turkish
Sony VAIO PCG-505R	Mandriva (Mandrake) 7.2
Sony VAIO PCG-505RX	FreeBSD 2.2.8	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-505RX	FreeBSD 2.2.8	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-505SN (N505SN)	RedHat 6.2
Sony VAIO PCG-505SX	FreeBSD 3.3	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-505TS	RedHat
Sony VAIO PCG-505TX	FreeBSD 3.5, 4.2
Sony VAIO PCG-505F	RedHat 5.2
Sony VAIO PCG-505F	Caldera OpenLinux Lite 1.3
Sony VAIO PCG-505FX	Gentoo, Mandriva (Mandrake) 8.0
Sony VAIO PCG-505FX	OpenBSD 2.5
Sony VAIO PCG-505FX	Novell/SuSE
Sony VAIO PCG-505TR	Novell/SuSE
Sony VAIO PCG-505TR	RedHat, Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-505VE	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-505X	Linux	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-707C	RedHat 5.3
Sony VAIO PCG-737	Vector Linux 5.1
Sony VAIO PCG-737/747	Novell/SuSE 6.3
Sony VAIO PCG-745	Mandriva (Mandrake) 6.0
Sony VAIO PCG-747	OpenBSD 2.4
Sony VAIO PCG-747	Debian 2.0
Sony VAIO PCG-748	Mandriva (Mandrake)
Sony VAIO PCG-808	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-808, 818, 838	RedHat
Sony VAIO PCG-838	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-838	RedHat 5.2
Sony VAIO PCG-C1 (PictureBook)	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-C1 (PictureBook)	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-C1 (PictureBook)	Gentoo
Sony VAIO PCG-C1F (PictureBook)	RedHat
Sony VAIO PCG-C1F (PictureBook)	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-C1MGP	XUbuntu	German
Sony VAIO PCG-C1MHP (PictureBook)	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-C1MHP (PictureBook)	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-C1MHP (PictureBook)	RedHat 9.0
Sony VAIO PCG-C1MRX/MV (PictureBook)	RedHat
Sony VAIO PCG-C1MZX (PictureBook)	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-C1MV (PictureBook)	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-C1MVP/M (PictureBook)	FreeBSD 5.3
Sony VAIO PCG-C1V (PictureBook)	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VE (PictureBook)	Mandriva (Mandrake)
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VE (PictureBook)	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VE (PictureBook)	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VE (PictureBook)	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VE (PictureBook)	OpenBSD 3.0
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VE (PictureBook)	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VE (PictureBook)	FreeBSD, Slackware 7.1
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VE (PictureBook)	Debian Etch	French
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VE (PictureBook)	OpenBSD 3.2
Sony VAIO PCG-C1V(E/N) (PictureBook)	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VFK (PictureBook)	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VFK (PictureBook)	Gentoo
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VG (PictureBook)	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VJ (PictureBook)	Kondara Linux	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VJ (PictureBook)	Vine Linux	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VJ (PictureBook)	Slackware 7.1, RedHat 7J, Holon Linux 2.0	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VJ (PictureBook)	FreeBSD 4.6	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VJ (PictureBook)	FreeBSD 4.2	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VJ/BP (PictureBook)	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VM (PictureBook)	Slackware 8.0
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VN (PictureBook)	Mandriva (Mandrake) 7.2
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VN (PictureBook)	Novell/SuSE 7.0	German
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VN (PictureBook)	Mandriva (Mandrake) 7.2
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VN (PictureBook)	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VN (PictureBook)	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VRX/K (PictureBook)	Debian Sarge
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VRX/K (PictureBook)	Gentoo
Sony VAIO PCG-C1X (PictureBook)	BeOS
Sony VAIO PCG-C1X (PictureBook)	Novell/SuSE
Sony VAIO PCG-C1XD (PictureBook)	Mandriva (Mandrake) 7.0
Sony VAIO PCG-C1XD(S) (PictureBook)	RedHat 8.0, Fedora Core 7
Sony VAIO PCG-C1XD (PictureBook)	RedHat 7.1
Sony VAIO PCG-C1XD (PictureBook)	OpenBSD
Sony VAIO PCG-C1XD (PictureBook)	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-C1XD (PictureBook)	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-C1XD (PictureBook)	Slackware
Sony VAIO PCG-C1XD/XS (PictureBook)	RedHat 6.2
Sony VAIO PCG-C1XF (PictureBook)	RedHat 7.2
Sony VAIO PCG-C1XS (PictureBook)	RedHat 6.1
Sony VAIO PCG-C1XS (PictureBook)	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-C1XS (PictureBook)	RedHat
Sony VAIO PCG-C1XS (PictureBook)	Slackware 9.0
Sony VAIO PCG-C1XS (PictureBook)	OpenBSD 2.8, 2.9
Sony VAIO PCG-V1XS (PictureBook)	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-F-xxx	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-F34/BP	Linux	Portuguese
Sony VAIO PCG-F160	RedHat 5.2
Sony VAIO PCG-F212 (aka PCG-F104K)	Debian Woody
Sony VAIO PCG-F250	RedHat 6.0
Sony VAIO PCG-F270	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-F270	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-F390	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-F403	Novell/SuSE 6.4
Sony VAIO PCG-F420	OpenBSD
Sony VAIO PCG-F430/450	RedHat 6.1, Mandriva (Mandrake) 7.0, Novell/SuSE 7.1
Sony VAIO PCG-F580	OpenBSD 2.9
Sony VAIO PCG-F580	RedHat 7.1
Sony VAIO PCG-F690	RedHat 6.2
Sony VAIO PCG-F801A	Novell/SuSE 7.0
Sony VAIO PCG-F807K	RedHat 6.2, 7.0
Sony VAIO PCG-F807K	RedHat 7.1	German
Sony VAIO PCG-F808K	RedHat 8.0
Sony VAIO PCG-FR130	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-FR130	Ubuntu 8.10
Sony VAIO PCG-FR215M	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-FR285E	Gentoo 1.4
Sony VAIO PCG-FR415B	Gentoo 2004.1
Sony VAIO PCG-FRV28	Slackware 9.1
Sony VAIO PCG-FX101	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-FX101	RedHat 7.2
Sony VAIO PCG-FX105K	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-FX150K	RedHat 8.0, 9.0
Sony VAIO PCG-FX150/170/190	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-FX170K	Mandriva (Mandrake) 8.0
Sony VAIO PCG-FX190	RedHat 7.1
Sony VAIO PCG-FX190K	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-FX200	Mandriva (Mandrake) 8.0, RedHat 7.2
Sony VAIO PCG-FX201	OpenBSD
Sony VAIO PCG-FX202PG	Novell/SuSE	German
Sony VAIO PCG-FX209K	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-FX215	RedHat 9.0
Sony VAIO PCG-FX220	Mandriva (Mandrake)
Sony VAIO PCG-FX220	RedHat 7.3
Sony VAIO PCG-FX220	RedHat 7.2 Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-FX240	RedHat
Sony VAIO PCG-FX301	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-FX310	Mandriva (Mandrake) 8.1, 8.2
Sony VAIO PCG-FX310	Debian 3.0 Woody
Sony VAIO PCG-FX310	Fedora Core 1
Sony VAIO PCG-FX340K	OpenSolaris 11
Sony VAIO PCG-FX390K	RedHat 7.2, 7.3
Sony VAIO PCG-FX401	Slackware 8.0
Sony VAIO PCG-FX401	RedHat 7.1, Slackware 8.0
Sony VAIO PCG-FX401	Novell/SuSE 7.2
Sony VAIO PCG-FX405 (aka PCG-971M, FXA36)	Novell/SuSE 7.2, 7.3, 8.0
Sony VAIO PCG-FX405	Mandriva (Mandrake) 9.0	German
Sony VAIO PCG-FX501	Slackware 9.1	French
Sony VAIO PCG-FX501	Mandriva (Mandrake) 9.1
Sony VAIO PCG-FX501	Mandriva (Mandrake) 9.1	German
Sony VAIO PCG-FX501	RedHat 7.3	Italian
Sony VAIO PCG-FX501	Mandriva (Mandrake) 8.0, Novell/SuSE 7.2, 7.3	German
Sony VAIO PCG-FX501	RedHat 7.2
Sony VAIO PCG-FX502	RedHat 7.2, Novell/SuSE 8.2
Sony VAIO PCG-FX503	Debian 3.0 Woody	French
Sony VAIO PCG-FX503	Novell/SuSE 7.3
Sony VAIO PCG-FX505	Linux	German
Sony VAIO PCG-FX505 (aka FXA49)	Mandriva (Mandrake) 8.1
Sony VAIO PCG-FX601	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-FX602	Debian Woody	German
Sony VAIO PCG-FX605	Mandriva (Mandrake) 8.1
Sony VAIO PCG-FX702	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-FXA32	NetBSD
Sony VAIO PCG-FXA47	Slackware
Sony VAIO PCG-FXA32 (aka 974L)	RedHat 7.1
Sony VAIO PCG-FXA680	Gentoo 1.4, Debian 3.0 Woody	Spanish
Sony VAIO PCG-FX701	Mandriva (Mandrake) 9.2, 10.0, Ubuntu Edgy Eft
Sony VAIO PCG-FX701	Mandriva (Mandrake) 8.1
Sony VAIO PCG-FX701 / FX705	BeOS
Sony VAIO PCG-FX702	RedHat 8.0/9.0
Sony VAIO PCG-FX702	Debian	French
Sony VAIO PCG-FX705	Ubuntu 4.10 Edgy
Sony VAIO PCG-F707	Debian 3.0 Woody	German
Sony VAIO PCG-FX801	Mandriva (Mandrake) 9.0
Sony VAIO PCG-FX801	Novell/SuSE 9.0
Sony VAIO PCG-FX802	RedHat 9.0
Sony VAIO PCG-FX802	Mandriva (Mandrake) 9.0, 9.1
Sony VAIO PCG-FX804	RedHat 7.3
Sony VAIO PCG-FX805	RedHat 9.0
Sony VAIO PCG-FX805	Debian Sarge
Sony VAIO PCG-FX805	Slackware 9.0
Sony VAIO PCG-GR7K	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-GR9/K	FreeBSD 4.3	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-GR114EK	Debian	German
Sony VAIO PCG-GR114EK	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-GR114MK	Gentoo
Sony VAIO PCG-GR114MK	RedHat 7.2
Sony VAIO PCG-GR114SK	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-GR214EP	Slackware 8.0
Sony VAIO PCG-GR214EP	Gentoo 1.4
Sony VAIO PCG-GR214MP	Novell/SuSE 9.0, Mandriva (Mandrake) 9.2
Sony VAIO PCG-GR214MP	Novell/SuSE 9.0, Mandriva (Mandrake) 9.2	French
Sony VAIO PCG-GR214MP	RedHat 7.2
Sony VAIO PCG-GR214MP	RedHat
Sony VAIO PCG-GR370	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-GR370	RedHat 7.2
Sony VAIO PCG-GR370	RedHat
Sony VAIO PCG-GR414SP	Linux	French
Sony VAIO PCG-GRS300	RedHat 9.0, Mandriva (Mandrake) 9.0	French
Sony VAIO PCG-GRS750	RedHat 9.0, Mandriva (Mandrake) 9.0	French
Sony VAIO PCG-GRT100	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-GRT160	RedHat 9.0
Sony VAIO PCG-GRT170	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-GRT170	Novell/SuSE 8.2
Sony VAIO PCG-GRT170	RedHat 9.0
Sony VAIO PCG-GRT170	RedHat 9.0
Sony VAIO PCG-GRT170	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-GRT270	RedHat 9.0
Sony VAIO PCG-GRT360ZG	Knoppix 3.4
Sony VAIO PCG-GRT390ZP	Fedora Core 2, Mandriva (Mandrake) 1.0, RedHat Enterprise
Sony VAIO PCG-GRT716S	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-GRT785B	Mandriva (Mandrake) 9.1
Sony VAIO PCG-GRT815M	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-GRT815M	ARCHlinux	French
Sony VAIO PCG-GRT816S	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-GRT816S	Slackware 9.0
Sony VAIO PCG-GRT896HP	Gentoo
Sony VAIO PCG-GRT916Z	Gentoo	French
Sony VAIO PCG-GRV99G/P	FreeBSD 5.3	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-GRV516G	Mandriva (Mandrake) 9.2, Novell/SuSE 9.0
Sony VAIO PCG-GRV516G	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-GRV550	Novell/SuSE 9.0, RedHat 9.0
Sony VAIO PCG-GRX	Mandriva (Mandrake) 8.3 Cooker
Sony VAIO PCG-GRX5P	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-GRX316MP	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-GRX516MD	Gentoo
Sony VAIO PCG-GRX560	RedHat 7.2, 7.3
Sony VAIO PCG-GRX570	RedHat 7.3
Sony VAIO PCG-GRX616SP	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-GRX616MP	Fedora Core 2, 3 Ubuntu 6.10
Sony VAIO PCG-GRZ515G	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-GRZ530	RedHat 9.0
Sony VAIO PCG-GRZ610	RedHat 8.0
Sony VAIO PCG-K13	Ubuntu
Sony VAIO PCG-K13Q	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-K115B [PRINT]	Novell/SuSE 9.1	German
Sony VAIO PCG-K115Z	Novell/SuSE 9.2	German
Sony VAIO PCG-K115Z	Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Dapper Drake, 7.04
Sony VAIO PCG-K215S	Mandriva (Mandrake) 10.0	French
Sony VAIO PCG-N505SN	RedHat 6.2
Sony VAIO PCG-N505SN	Debian 3.0 Woody	German
Sony VAIO PCG-N505SN	Novell/SuSE
Sony VAIO PCG-N505SN	Novell/SuSE 8.1
Sony VAIO PCG-N505VE	FreeBSD 4.4, 6.x
Sony VAIO PCG-N505VE	OpenBSD 2.9
Sony VAIO PCG-N505VE	RedHat 6.2
Sony VAIO PCG-N505VE	FreeBSD 4.4
Sony VAIO PCG-N505VE	Fedora Core 4
Sony VAIO PCG-N505VE	OpenBSD 2.7
Sony VAIO PCG-N505VE	RedHat 6.1, Novell/SuSE 6.3, Caldera 2.3
Sony VAIO PCG-N505VE	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-N505VX	RedHat 8.0
Sony VAIO PCG-N505X	Debian, Novell/SuSE 8.0, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2
Sony VAIO PCG-N505X	Novell/SuSE 7.3, 9.1	German
Sony VAIO PCG-N505X	Mandriva (Mandrake) 7.2	French
Sony VAIO PCG-N505X	Debian	German
Sony VAIO PCG-N505X	RedHat 6.1, 7.0, 8.0
Sony VAIO PCG-N505X	RedHat 9.0, Novell/SuSE 10.0, 10.1
Sony VAIO PCG-N505X	Gentoo	German
Sony VAIO PCG-N505X	Novell/SuSE 6.3
Sony VAIO PCG-N505X	RedHat
Sony VAIO PCG-N505X	Gentoo 1.0
Sony VAIO PCG-N505X	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-N505X	FreeBSD 5.3	German
Sony VAIO PCG-N505X	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-NV105	Novell/SuSE 8.0
Sony VAIO PCG-NV105	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-NVR23	Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris 10
Sony VAIO PCG-NVR23	Gentoo
Sony VAIO PCG-R505JL	Mandriva (Mandrake) 8.2, Fedora Core 4
Sony VAIO PCG-R505JL	RedHat 7.2
Sony VAIO PCG-R505JL/C	RedHat 8.0
Sony VAIO PCG-R505DC	RedHat
Sony VAIO PCG-R505DL	FreeBSD 5.2
Sony VAIO PCG-R505DL	RedHat 8.0
Sony VAIO PCG-R505ECK	Novell/SuSE 8.2, RedHat 7.3, 8.0, 9.0
Sony VAIO PCG-R505EL	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-R505EL	RedHat 7.3
Sony VAIO PCG-R505EL	Gentoo 2006.0
Sony VAIO PCG-R505GL	Gentoo 1.2
Sony VAIO PCG-R505GL	Gentoo 1.2
Sony VAIO PCG-R505GL (US-Model)	Debian 3.0
Sony VAIO PCG-R505TL	RedHat 7.1
Sony VAIO PCG-R505TSK	Gentoo
Sony VAIO PCG-R505R/GK	Gentoo 1.4, FreeBSD 5.0
Sony VAIO PCG-R505TE	FreeBSD 5.0
Sony VAIO PCG-R505X/PD	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-R505JS	NetBSD
Sony VAIO PCG-R505TEK	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-R505VMP	Gentoo	German
Sony VAIO PCG-R600HEK	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-R600HEK	Debian 2.2
Sony VAIO PCG-R600HFPD	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-R600HFPD	Debian	German
Sony VAIO PCG-R600HMK	RedHat
Sony VAIO PCG-R600HMP	Gentoo	German
Sony VAIO PCG-R600MX	Gentoo
Sony VAIO PCG-R600MX	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-SR1/BP	Fedora Core 1	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-SR1K (aka SR5K)	Fedora Core 2
Sony VAIO PCG-SR1K	Novell/SuSE 6.4, 7.0, Debian 2.2
Sony VAIO PCG-SR1K	Debian Potato
Sony VAIO PCG-SR5K	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-SR9/K	FreeBSD 3.5.1	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-SR9/K	Slackware 8.1	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-SR11K	Debian	French
Sony VAIO PCG-SR11K	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-SR17	RedHat 6.2
Sony VAIO PCG-SR17K	RedHat 8.0, Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-SR33	Novell/SuSE
Sony VAIO PCG-SRX3	RedHat 7.2	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-SRX3	RedHat 7.2
Sony VAIO PCG-SRX3E	Solaris 9 x86	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-SRX3E/BD	TurboLinux 7 RedHat 7.2	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-SRX7	Vine Linux 2.5	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-SRX7	Kondara MNU/Linux 2.1
Sony VAIO PCG-SRX51P	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-SRX51P	RedHat 9.0, Fedora Core 2, Gentoo, ARCHlinux
Sony VAIO PCG-SRX51P/A	Gentoo	German
Sony VAIO PCG-SRX51P/A	RedHat 8.0
Sony VAIO PCG-SRX51P/A	RedHat 9.0, Novell/SuSE 10.0, 10.1
Sony VAIO PCG-SRX77	Debian Woody
Sony VAIO PCG-SRX77	RedHat 7.2
Sony VAIO PCG-SRX87	Debian 3.0
Sony VAIO PCG-SRX87	Debian 3.0
Sony VAIO PCG-SRX87	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-SRX87	RedHat 9.0, Novell/SuSE 8.2
Sony VAIO PCG-SRX99	RedHat 8.0
Sony VAIO PCG-TR1	Fedora Core 1
Sony VAIO PCG-TR1/P (PCG-482N)	Gentoo
Sony VAIO PCG-TR1A	Slackware 9.0, Fedora Core 1, Gentoo
Sony VAIO PCG-TR1MP	Fedora Core 1
Sony VAIO PCG-TR1MP	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-TR1MP	Ubuntu
Sony VAIO PCG-TR2	Fedora Core 1
Sony VAIO PCG-TR2	Fedora Core 1	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-TR2	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-TR2	Ubuntu Breezy
Sony VAIO PCG-TR2B	RedHat 9.0	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-TR2/B	TaoLinux 4.0	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-TR3AP	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-TR3A	Fedora Core 2
Sony VAIO PCG-TR3	Fedora Core 2
Sony VAIO PCG-TR5F	Fedora Core 2	Spanish
Sony VAIO PCG-TR5MP	Gentoo
Sony VAIO PCG-U1	Linux	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-U1	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-U1/U3	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-U101	Fedora Core 1
Sony VAIO PCG-U3	Linux	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-U3	Vine Linux 2.6r3	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-U50/U70	Linux, FreeBSD
Sony VAIO PCG-Uxx	Fedora Core 2
Sony VAIO PCG-U750	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-V505AP	Slackware
Sony VAIO PCG-V505AX	Slackware 9.1
Sony VAIO PCG-V505BX	RedHat 7.3, 9.0
Sony VAIO PCG-V505BXP	RedHat 9.0
Sony VAIO PCG-V505BX	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-V505CP	Mandriva (Mandrake) 10.0
Sony VAIO PCG-V505CP	Mandriva (Mandrake) 2006
Sony VAIO PCG-V505DX	Debian, Ubuntu
Sony VAIO PCG-V505EX	FreeBSD 5.2.1
Sony VAIO PCG-VX71P	Debian 3.0
Sony VAIO PCG-VX88P	Sorcerer Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-VX88	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-VX88	Mandriva (Mandrake) 9.1
Sony VAIO PCG-VX89	OpenBSD
Sony VAIO PCG-XG9	RedHat 6.2
Sony VAIO PCG-XG18	RedHat 7.0
Sony VAIO PCG-XG28	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-XG28	RedHat 7.0
Sony VAIO PCG-XG28	RedHat 6.2
Sony VAIO PCG-XG29	OpenBSD
Sony VAIO PCG-XG29K	RedHat 7.3
Sony VAIO PCG-XG700	Mandriva (Mandrake) 8.2
Sony VAIO PCG-XR1G	Solaris 8	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-XR7S	Vine Linux 2.0	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-Z1A	RedHat 9.0
Sony VAIO PCG-Z1M	FreeDOS
Sony VAIO PCG-Z1RA	Gentoo
Sony VAIO PCG-Z1RMP	Fedora Core 1
Sony VAIO PCG-Z1RMP	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-Z1RMP	Mandriva (Mandrake) 9.2, 10.0
Sony VAIO PCG-Z1RMP	Gentoo
Sony VAIO PCG-Z1R/P	Fedora Core 2	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-Z1R/P	Solaris 9	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-Z1SP	Gentoo
Sony VAIO PCG-Z1SP	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-Z1VAP1	Sorcerer Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-Z1V/P [PDF]	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-Z1VP	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-Z1XMP	Novell/SuSE 9.0
Sony VAIO PCG-Z1XMP	Gentoo	French
Sony VAIO PCG-Z1XMP	Gentoo
Sony VAIO PCG-Z1XMP	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-Z1XSP	Mandriva (Mandrake) 10.0CE	French
Sony VAIO PCG-Z505	RedHat 6.1
Sony VAIO PCG-Z505C/BP	Solaris 9, FreeBSD 4.7	Japanese
Sony VAIO PCG-Z505E	RedHat 6.2
Sony VAIO PCG-Z505FA	Mandriva (Mandrake) 7.0
Sony VAIO PCG-Z505GA	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-Z505HE	RedHat
Sony VAIO PCG-Z505HE	RedHat
Sony VAIO PCG-Z505HE
Sony VAIO PCG-Z505HS	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-Z505HS	RedHat 6.2
Sony VAIO PCG-Z505JE	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-Z505JE	OpenBSD
Sony VAIO PCG-Z505JS	CoreBoot (former LinuxBios)
Sony VAIO PCG-Z505JS	Ubuntu 7.10
Sony VAIO PCG-Z505LE	RedHat 7.0
Sony VAIO PCG-Z505LE	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-Z505LS	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-Z505LSK	Mandriva (Mandrake)
Sony VAIO PCG-Z505RX	Mandriva (Mandrake) 7.0
Sony VAIO PCG-Z505RX	Slackware 7.0
Sony VAIO PCG-Z505RX	RedHat 6.1
Sony VAIO PCG-Z505R	FreeBSD
Sony VAIO PCG-Z505SX	RedHat 6.0
Sony VAIO PCG-Z505SX	Debian 2.1
Sony VAIO PCG-Z505SX	RedHat
Sony VAIO PCG-Z505SX	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-Z505SX/HE	Novell/SuSE 6.1
Sony VAIO PCG-Z600TEK	Novell/SuSE 7.0	German
Sony VAIO PCG-Z600TEK [PDF]	Novell/SuSE
Sony VAIO PCG-Z600HEK	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-Z600LEK	RedHat 7.2
Sony VAIO PCG-Z600LEK	Debian
Sony VAIO PCG-Z600NE	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-Z600NE	Mandriva (Mandrake) 7.1
Sony VAIO PCG-Z600NE	Mandriva (Mandrake) 7.1
Sony VAIO PCG-Z600NE/TEK	RedHat 6.2
Sony VAIO PCG-Z600NEK	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-Z600NEK	Ubuntu	German
Sony VAIO PCG-Z600RE	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-Z600RE	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-Z600RE	Mandriva (Mandrake) 7.0
Sony VAIO PCG-Z600RE	FreeBSD 5.3
Sony VAIO PCG-Z600RE	RedHat 7.0
Sony VAIO PCG-Z600TEK	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-Z600TEK	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-Z600TEK	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-Z600TEK	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-Z600TEK	Linux	French
Sony VAIO PCG-Z600TEK	Linux
Sony VAIO PCG-Z600TEK	FreeBSD, BeOS
Sony VAIO VGN-A170P	Fedora Core 3
Sony VAIO VGN-A190	Mandriva (Mandrake) 10.1
Sony VAIO VGN-A197VP (PCG-8Q4M)	Debian
Sony VAIO VGN-A197VP	Gentoo
Sony VAIO VGN-A295HP	Gentoo
Sony VAIO VGN-A397XP	Linux
Sony VAIO VGN-A417S [PRINT]	Novell/SuSE 9.3	German
Sony VAIO VGN-A690	Gentoo
Sony VAIO VGN-AR21B	Ubuntu
Sony VAIO VGN-AR61ZU	Debian Lenny AMD64 (x86_64)	German
Sony VAIO VGN-B1VP	Debian
Sony VAIO VGN-B100B	Sorcerer Linux
Sony VAIO VGN-B3VP	ARCHlinux
Sony VAIO VGN-B3VP	Novell/SuSE 10.0
Sony VAIO VGN-C1S	Ubuntu 6.10
Sony VAIO VGN-C250N	Ubuntu 7.10
Sony VAIO VGN-CR21E	Debian Lenny AMD64 (x86_64)
Sony VAIO VGN-CR190	Debian 4.0
Sony VAIO VGN-FE11H	Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy	Italian
Sony VAIO VGN-FE11M	Ubuntu Dapper Drake	Italian
Sony VAIO VGN-FE11M	Ubuntu Dapper Drake	French
Sony VAIO VGN-FE11S	Slackware	Italian
Sony VAIO VGN-FE11S	Slackware
Sony VAIO VGN-FE11S	Debian Sarge	German
Sony VAIO VGN-FE21M	Gentoo
Sony VAIO VGN-FE21S	Fedora Core 6
Sony VAIO VGN-FE28H	Ubuntu Dapper Drake	French
Sony VAIO VGN-FE28H	Ubuntu	French
Sony VAIO VGN-FE41S	Novell/SuSE 10.2 32bit, 64bit	German
Sony VAIO VGN-FE41ZR	Gentoo	Russian
Sony VAIO VGN-FE48G	Ubuntu 8.04 64bit
Sony VAIO VGN-FE690	Gentoo
Sony VAIO VGN-FJ170/B	Fedora Core 4
Sony VAIO VGN-FJ3S	Debian	Spanish
Sony VAIO VGN-FS115B	Ubuntu
Sony VAIO VGN-FS115B	Novell/SuSE 9.3
Sony VAIO VGN-FS115M	Debian Sarge
Sony VAIO VGN-FS115S	Ubuntu	Italian
Sony VAIO VGN-FS215S	Debian
Sony VAIO VGN-FS285H	Slackware	Italian
Sony VAIO VGN-FS285M	Novell/SuSE 10.0
Sony VAIO VGN-FS315H	Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger, 6.06 Dapper Drake	German
Sony VAIO VGN-FS315H	Ubuntu, Fedora Core 5	German
Sony VAIO VGN-FS315H	Gentoo	German
Sony VAIO VGN-FS415M	Gentoo	French
Sony VAIO VGN-FS485B	Ubuntu Dapper Drake	Italian
Sony VAIO VGN-FS500	Gentoo
Sony VAIO VGN-FS550	Linux
Sony VAIO VGN-FS515E	Ubuntu	French
Sony VAIO VGN-FS640/W	Fedora Core 4
Sony VAIO VGN-FS660	Gentoo
Sony VAIO VGN-FW235J	Linux
Sony VAIO VGN-FZ31E	Ubuntu Hardy Heron
Sony VAIO VGN-FZ38M	Debian Lenny
Sony VAIO VGN-FZ11MR	Fedora 7
Sony VAIO VGN-FZ140E	Gentoo
Sony VAIO VGN-FZ21E	Ubuntu
Sony VAIO VGN-FZ21M	Debian 4.0	Italian
Sony VAIO VGN-FZ21M	Ubuntu	Italian
Sony VAIO VGN-FZ180E	Gentoo
Sony VAIO VGN-FZ21S	Gentoo
Sony VAIO VGN-N21S [PRINT]	Novell/SuSE 10.2	German
Sony VAIO VGN-N31Z	ARCHlinux
Sony VAIO VGN-NR10E/S	Ubuntu	French
Sony VAIO VGN-NR11S/S	Ubuntu	Italian
Sony VAIO VGN-NR320FH	ARCHlinux
Sony VAIO VGN-S1XP	Fedora Core 2
Sony VAIO VGN-S1XP	Fedora Core 4, 5, Novell/SuSE 10.0	French
Sony VAIO VGN-S18GP	Gentoo
Sony VAIO VGN-S150	Gentoo
Sony VAIO VGN-S260	Gentoo
Sony VAIO VGN-S260	Gentoo
Sony VAIO VGN-S260	Slackware
Sony VAIO VGN-S260	Fedora Core 4
Sony VAIO VGN-S3HP	Fedora Core 3
Sony VAIO VGN-S3HP	Gentoo
Sony VAIO VGN-S3XP	Slackware 10.2	Italian
Sony VAIO VGN-S3XP	Gentoo
Sony VAIO VGN-S360P	Fedora Core 3
Sony VAIO VGN-S4HP	Ubuntu
Sony VAIO VGN-S4HP	Debian
Sony VAIO VGN-S4M/S (aka S460/S480)	Gentoo
Sony VAIO VGN-S4XP	Knoppix	German
Sony VAIO VGN-S4XP	Ubuntu 5.04
Sony VAIO VGN-S4XP	Ubuntu 5.04	French
Sony VAIO VGN-S5MS	Debian
Sony VAIO VGN-S5VP/B	Debian
Sony VAIO VGN-S460P	Solaris Nevada Build 38, MAC OSx86, Linux
Sony VAIO VGN-S580	Gentoo
Sony VAIO VGN-S660/B	Debian
Sony VAIO VGN-SR11M	Debian
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ1M/B	Gentoo	Italian
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ1M/B	Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ1XP	Ubuntu Dapper Drake
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ2M/B	Slackware 10.2
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ3HP	Ubuntu 6.10	Italian
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ3VP	Slackware 11	Italian
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ4MN	KUbuntu 6.10, Novell/SuSE, Knoppix
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ4MN/B	Ubuntu Feisty Fawn	French
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ4XWN/C	Solaris Express x86
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ5XWN/C [PRINT]	Linux	German
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ5XRN	Gentoo	Russian
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ6	ARCHlinux
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ28	Ubuntu 6.10
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ56GN	Debian, Novell/SuSE
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ61 MN/B	Ubuntu
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ650N	Ubuntu Hardy Heron, Jaunty Jackalope
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ680	Debian Lenny
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ72B	Debian
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ72B/B	Solaris
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ110	Ubuntu
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ110	Novell/SuSE
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ230P	Debian Etch
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ3	Ubuntu 7.04 AMD64 (x86_64)
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ3XP	Ubuntu 6.10, 7.04
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ3XP	Debian Lenny	French
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ3XP	Linux	French
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ330P	Ubuntu 7.04
Sony VAIO VGN-T150	Mandriva (Mandrake)
Sony VAIO VGN-T1XP	Debian
Sony VAIO VGN-T1XP	Debian Sarge
Sony VAIO VGN-T2XP	Ubuntu
Sony VAIO VGN-T2XP [ITA]	Knoppix 4.x	Italian
Sony VAIO VGN-T2XP	Gentoo
Sony VAIO VGN-T37GP	Ubuntu	German
Sony VAIO VGN-T350P	OpenSolaris
Sony VAIO VGN-TX1XP	KUbuntu
Sony VAIO VGN-TX2	Gentoo
Sony VAIO VGN-TX2HP	Gentoo	French
Sony VAIO VGN-TX3HP	Ubuntu 6.10
Sony VAIO VGN-TX3[-HP]	Debian
Sony VAIO VGN-TX3[-HP]	Debian
Sony VAIO VGN-TX3[-HP]	Debian 5.0 Lenny
Sony VAIO VGN-TX3HP/W	Ubuntu 6.10
Sony VAIO VGN-TX5MN	Ubuntu 8.04
Sony VAIO VGN-TX650P	Ubuntu Breezy
Sony VAIO VGN-TXN15	Mandriva (Mandrake)
Sony VAIO VGN-TXN25N	Linux
Sony VAIO VGN-TZ21MN/N	KUbuntu 7.10
Sony VAIO VGN-TZ37TN/B	Ubuntu 8.04	Chinese
Sony VAIO VGN-TZ90HS	Plamo Linux	Japanese
Sony VAIO VGN-UX180P	Linux
Sony VAIO VGN-UX280	Fedora Core 6
Sony VAIO VGN-UX280P	XUbuntu 6.10
Sony VAIO VGN-X505ZP	Fedora Core 3
Sony VAIO VGN-Z series	Linux
Sony VAIO VGN-Z11	Ubuntu 8.10	Spanish
Sony VAIO P Series Lifestyle PC	Fedora 10
Sony VAIO P Series Lifestyle PC	Fedora 10
Sony VAIO P Series Lifestyle PC	Ubuntu 9.04	Japanese
Sony VAIO P Series Lifestyle PC (VGN-P90HS)	Debian Lenny	Japanese

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Further reviews on Sony Laptops

Resources

• Laptop Manufacturers: Linux Status Survey
• manufacturer site: Sony
• Linux Mobile Guide - Installing, Maintaining and Tuning of Linux on Mobile Computers
• How to do-it-yourself Sony laptop and notebook upgrading, repairing and modding.
• vendors which sell pre-installed Linux laptops, notebooks, PDAs or mobile phones

Original Equipment Manufacturer - OEM

If you are looking for drivers, software and service manuals for laptops and notebooks you may sometimes find similar models branded under a different name. Especially the FCC-ID can be helpful to detect the original manufacturer.

• OEM relations between manufacturers
• FCC ID: unknown
• Some Sony Laptops have multiple names; here is a list of laptops and their Model and Label.

Applications / Drivers

• Synaptics touchpad driver for Linux
• Jeff Gerard's NeoFB patch adds FrameBuffer support for 1024x480 PictureBook resolution on NeoMagic based PCG-C1X? models.
• sonyscreen reduces the brightness level of the screen as the charge in the battery falls, with the aim of extending battery life and providing a visual indication of the approximate level of charge left.
• sonyxosd offers full access to all of the Sony Function Key ("Fn") keyboard combinations available through the sonypi device. Controls Master Volume and Mute (for both OSS or ALSA sound systems), Processor Speed (requires ACPI support and a Centrino or SpeedStep CPU), Screen Brightness, LCD & VGA Power Down (for ATi Radeon graphics chips), and Disc Eject. Now also supports the "ondemand" power-saving governor on 2.6 kernels. Graphically displays information and status both in X and in text-consoles(!) - all without disruption, even if the console is scrolling.
• sonyfxd is a daemon that will answer the Fn and PPK buttons. Assuming you are running X, it will allow you to change the volume, mute the audio system, and change the brightness of the screen.
• This is a new sonyfn handler , who should eat less CPU. It uses the event interface to check for a possible hit to the Fn key and then try to figure out what happend. The side effect is a faster handling.
• Sony Notebook Control, ACPI Method Analysis: This page represents the output of some automated scripts that analyse the ACPI DSDT tables of Sony Vaio portable PCs to determine what services the SNC (Sony Notebook Control) device provides.
• Hacking BIOS and NVRAM: This project came about as a way to enable the CPU's hardware virtualisation (VT) support which is disabled and locked by the Sony/Phoenix BIOS. VT is very useful for running guest operating systems in virtual machines at close to full speed with host CPU support.
• fansilencer a simple program that keeps the fan from running all the time. This program works under Linux and requires SonyPI driver to work. This driver is preinstalled at least in Ubuntu distribution.

Touchscreen Linux Drivers

• Linux touchscreen drivers for the U50, U70P, and U750P: Generic Event Device XFree86/Xorg Input Driver to specifically support a USB touchscreen device by Gunze, but it is general enough to be used for anything that is recognized by the evdev driver.
• EvTouch: touchscreen driver for Xorg (useful for the UX series that has a different Gunze model from U50 and friends).

Camera, WebCam

• The Sony Vaio PictureBook Motion Eye Camera Driver - meye enables the use of video4linux compatible applications with the Motion Eye camera. This driver requires the Sony Vaio Programmable I/O Control Device driver (which can be found in the "Character drivers" section of the kernel configuration utility) to be compiled and installed (using its "camera=1" parameter).
• camera software for VAIO C1 models.
• PictureBook Motion Eye Camera Driver for Linux
• v4l driver for the Sony R-Engine MPEG2 encoder/decoder (aka Fujitsu's MB86393). The Sony R-Engine MPEG2 encoder/decoder is found in the more recent Sony Vaio Picturebooks (model PCG-C1M* and newer).
• Reality Engine (Motion Eye II) driver project
• Ricoh Camera (R5U870 chipset) driver (found in SZ, UX, some AR and some FE series).

JogDial

• Jog-Dial driver
• jogdiald and extra keys support
• Sony Programmable I/O Control Device Driver
• S-Jog for using the Jog Wheel on newer models
• rsjog is a handler for Sony Vaio scrollwheels designed to work with the /dev/sonypi kernel module. The user interface is based on sjog. rsjog is a total rewrite of sjog in ruby, with several additional features.
• Using The Sony Vaio Jogwheel With Perl
• JogMouse
• XMMS Jogdial Plugin is an XMMS plugin for the Sony Vaio PCG-C1XS. It allows the user to use the jogdial to control volume, playback, and the playlist. It is known to work on PCG-C1XS, but probably also works on other Sony Vaio C1 series picturebooks with a jogdial.
• sonystat pulls information out from the sonypi device, and displays it in a user friendly way.
• jdmouse - SONY VAIO jogdial event handler
• sony-laptop driver (available since Kernel 2.6.21-rc1 and previously only in -mm as 'sony-acpi') to control brightness, and powering on/off some devices. In the future this driver is intended to obsolete the sonypi driver.
• The Jogdial Patch integrates the jogdial package for Sony Vaio Notebooks with the Imwheel package. This patch makes it possible to use the jogdial (a kind of mouse wheel which is built into certain Vaio notebooks) in all X applications to scroll up and down or to deliver arbitrary keystrokes to X applications. The patch works well with the picturebook Sony Vaio PCG-C1XD and might work with other notebooks with a jogdial.

Community: Mailing Lists, Forums, FAQs, HOWTOs, Wikis

• Linux Sony Wiki
• SONY PictureBook by Steve Barr offers news about other Sony models, too
• Brad Hite's page offers general SONY AMD based VAIO laptop info (PCG-FX, FXA and NV series)