Comments on: Ubuntu 9.04 on the Sony Vaio P – with desktop effects!

By: paul

paul — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 06:33:00 +0000

Thanks for the write-up Rich. I have a Vaio P (VGN-P25G) which i couldn’t get speedy graphics on Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix using this or other guides around. So i dropped back Ubuntu 9.04 desktop version and had it working in minutes!

By: Ferdinando

Ferdinando — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:18:27 +0000

do you know if the situation improved with ubuntu 9.10? do you recommend the netbook remix for the vaio p?

By: Christian

Christian — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:52:51 +0000

What about the internal 3G modem – is it supported out of the box as well (Vaio model VGN-P21Z)? I can’t find any conclusive answer to that, and the only review from one user I found (on several boards) was that he found no support for the internal modem…

As you wrote “…my 3G USB modem…” I take it you used an external one.

thanks,
ch

By: Carlos Taborda

Carlos Taborda — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:51:28 +0000

Any luck with the suspend/hybernate? I tried this method, but the device felt very unstable, it would lock up randomly, as well as the screen was very laggy.

I ended up going for Win7, which doesn’t really appeal to me, but hey it works.

Hows the overall feel for you guys? Maybe I missed something and gave up too quickly.

Thanks!

By: Richard Walker

Richard Walker — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:23:06 +0000

If the drivers are working with full 3D support straight out of the box, that’s great news… the drivers may finally be up to scratch

By: justin stargell

justin stargell — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:01:32 +0000

hi i have a acer aspire one 751h and amazeingly when i installed Eeebuntu then kde then tried to run compiz it worked with no error now it is some what slow and the acer uses the notoruous gma 500. but they must be doing something becouse wen i checked my xorg.conf all the options for better performance where already changed and when i went to numerous forms to see what could be done to improve performance it was already done. aha so do you think this could be a sign that intel or conanical is doing something with these god for saken drivers???? and also what kind of performance do you get on your vaio p???? another thing that is very weird is that if i leve my computer on for a long peroid of time compiz performance becomes better in things like closeing and opening windows desktop cube etc….. what do you guys think could be happening?

By: Adam Williamson

Adam Williamson — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:31:43 +0000

The line:

Option “MigrationHeuristic” “greedy”

is what you need to solve the crashes. It also rather improves performance.

If anyone experiences the system pausing during boot until you hit a key, and/or the system clock consistently losing time, you want to add this kernel parameter:

nohz=off

to your bootloader configuration.

By: Mauricio Desiderio

Mauricio Desiderio — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:27:12 +0000

I think I solve the occasional lock-up problem. I am still testing, but i left my Vaio P running overnight and it was fine in the morning. That used to always cause a lock-up.

What I did was add the following lines to the Device section of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Option “AccelMethod” “exa”
Option “MigrationHeuristic” “greedy”
Option “NoDDC”

Like I said I am a newbie, so I am not really sure what these options mean, but it seems to have done the trick!

By: DC

DC — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:57:27 +0000

For the freeze/lock-ups, this might work

http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/dell-mini-10-discussion/10461-guide-get-ubuntu-display-work-dell-mini-10-not-10v-6.html

In case anyone gets a graphics error after routine updates (I did and wasted a couple of hours looking for the solution) then you can try remove and then install psb-kernel-source. Thanks to Wolf Rogner and pahutane for posting solutions

HW video acceleration seems to be possible via a patched mPlayer (VA-API version). Still working on getting it working though

By: Richard Walker

Richard Walker — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:53:11 +0000

Yeah I get the occasional lock-up…. seems to be totally random. Either the whole thing will freeze (no mouse movement) or everything minus mouse… but like you said, Ctrl+alt+F1 and ctrl+alt+backspace don’t work.

Hopefully as the driver matures a bit, this issue will be addressed.

Thanks for the comments!