Ubuntu on my Vaio P

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Ubuntu on my Vaio P

I’ve installed Ubuntu Linux on my Vaio P. It’s quite easy with Ubuntu 9.04 Beta. Graphic card, wireless, some function keys, hibernate and suspend works out of the box. Some tweak are needed, but everything works quite ok.

Here is what needs to be tweak for it to work. First thing, graphic card, you need 2 tweaks for it to work in native 1600x768 resolution.

Grub, you need to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst modify the line beginning with “kernel” and append this last command to boot in 1600x768x16bpp:

vga=0x367

Don’t forget to update grub:

# sudo update-grub

Then you need to add the following line to your /etc/X11/xorgs.conf file. In the device section, right under “Identifier”:

driver “fbdev”

Now reboot and you will have native resolution. It wont be a speed daemon, but it’s really usable. You can play low res flash video full screen without any skipping.

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Ubuntu on my Vaio P