On Wed, 17 May 2000, Adam Fritzler wrote:
>
> I got myself a Sony VAIO PCG-F450 recently. Works great, except for a few
> things.
>
> 1) Is anyone working on an OSS driver for the YMF744? ALSA says
> "mid-May" but thats about it. They have the docs from yamaha on their
> site as well.
the commercial oss driver (4-front tech) supports it, and they've fixed
their "apm calls with the sound driver loaded cause the machine to hang"
bug.
> 2) Anyone know a way to control the behavior of when you put the lid
> down? In Win98, it goes into suspend. In linux, it does nothing. I
> don't want suspend, but I would like it to shut the panel off.
>
> 3) The Fn brightness and contrast key combinations lock up the machine
> quite nicely. No idea why. Fn-F (to switch between video stretch and
> unstretched (for displaying non-XGA resolutions on the XGA LCD)) works
> just fine. But the others kill it. Any ideas? No kernel messages or
> anything. It'll do it before it gets to user space, so its a kernel
> difficulty.
>
> I think thats it for now. (I only wish the Alps trackpad did the
> two-finger-tap = middle-button thing that Synaptics pads do. Hitting
> both of the buttons simultaneously is a bit tricky. Oh well.)
>
> af
>
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