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List:       linux-sony
Subject:    Re: [Linux-sony] Noise Screen- VX-88
From:       "John F. Waymouth" <waymouth () wpi ! edu>
Date:       2002-12-24 22:27:40
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> I am not sure if it is the screen which is humming or under neith the
> keyboards.  Yet it is loud.  I can hear it across the room.  Yet a full
> brightness it is silient.

I can't hear ANYTHING on my VX88 across the room, unless the fan is
running.  Not even when the hard drive is accessing (unless I really
listen hard, I guess).

> John .. I thought I read previous that you had returned your laptop
> because of a problem like this.  Is that correct.  What became of it?

No, I was talking to the other laptop owner who had your problem, warning
him about the dangers of sending a laptop to sony.  I sent my laptop to
sony because of intermittent failure of the touchpad (we're still trying
to clear this up... today, I send it off for the third time).

> AS for installing linux from a USB drive I would use redhat 8.0.  I can
> find some manuals for how to do an install yet I believe I will need to
> add some special drivers onto the floopy.. Is that coorect?

It's not usb, it's firewire.  I've got a really detailed page of my
solution, which may help you (mine's aimed at Debian).  Some distributions
(mandrake, I think?) just support the cdrw/dvd drive on the boot disk, but
others (like debian) don't, yet.  Check

http://www.waymouth.org/john/pcg-vx88

Also, check Jack Coates' site about putting mandrake on one of these
laptops, I link to it on my site.

> Also has anyone built an antenia to increase the reception for the WAN
> and hooked itto the laptop?  What have been the results?

Not sure where to hook it into the laptop.  The antenna is completely
internal.  Interesting note: that on/off switch on the left side doesn't
really shut off the wireless card, it just detaches the antenna (I think).
Anyway, I find that the built in antenna on this laptop already gives me
far better reception than I could get with a PCMCIA wireless card on my
old laptop... it can access my wireless network in parts of the apartment
that I couldn't with my old laptop.




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