Arch Linux on the Sony Vaio TZ [was 'Two-finger scrolling on Vaio TZ']

Reasons · 2008-04-15 21:43:05

Posting from the live disk. Nothing happens with either of the card readers. I'm having some trouble finding anything on the webcam, most of what I do isn't useful so if you know any likely places to look.

EDIT - I've been thinking about swapping out my HDD for a SDD (I got the TZ for $964 so spending $400 for 32GB isn't so bad) and I was wondering how it performed for you. Read, boot, write times. etc.

Last edited by Reasons (2008-04-16 02:35:13)

Reasons · 2008-04-16 20:17:00

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= … stcount=22
Possible webcam fix. It errors out on building for me but I'll see if you have better luck.

.:B:. · 2008-04-16 20:28:35

Reasons wrote:

EDIT - I've been thinking about swapping out my HDD for a SDD (I got the TZ for $964 so spending $400 for 32GB isn't so bad) and I was wondering how it performed for you. Read, boot, write times. etc.

Cached sequential reads reported by hdparm attain 600 MBps (which is bad compared to my previous regular 5400 RPM HD which reached up to 2000 MBps on that), uncached sequential reads attain 46 MBps, which outpaces every laptop HD I've ever seen - my 5400 RPM HD hit 42 MBps while my brother's 7200 RPM HD at like 41 MBps.

As for the webcam link, I tried those sources a while ago (as in a week or so), and they did build - they are in AUR already as I said - but I get nothing but an activated light next to the webcam, which means it does something, but the output stays black . I don't remember if I tried CVS sources or the stable one, I'll check again. Driver built pretty clean though. If it works i'll make a patch to include in the PKGBUILD.

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.:B:. · 2008-04-19 02:57:16

Ok, i've been busy with the webcam (Ricoh stuff):

[stijn@hermes ~]$ lsusb | grep Ricoh
Bus 002 Device 007: ID 05ca:183a Ricoh Co., Ltd

I dropped in the firmware package from AUR and adapted the driver PKGBUILD to build the SVN revision (currently at 78). The driver loads fine (gets autoloaded at boot too), dmesg is all warm and fuzzy - except for the last line:

[stijn@hermes ~]$ dmesg | grep r5u870
usbcam: registering driver r5u870 0.11.1SVN
r5u870-0: Detected Sony VGP-VCC7
r5u870-0: registered as video0
usbcore: registered new interface driver r5u870
r5u870-0: usbcam_v4l_int_ioctl called without valid ioctl

Hit me on the head but I cannot find anything about the ioctl error. I had to patch the kernel too (Arch kernel has plenty of stuff already on board but I prefer to stick with my own one ) since the virtual video driver code appears to have been split up in recent kernels causing the compiler to complain about missing symbols (videobuf_blabla).

Spcaview does not work - just like before - and got those errors (tons of them, a nice loop):

[stijn@hermes ~]$ spcaview 
 Spcaview version: 1.1.8 date: 25:12:2007 (C) mxhaard@magic.fr 
Initializing SDL.
SDL initialized.
bpp 3 format 15
Using video device /dev/video0.
Initializing v4l.
**************** PROBING CAMERA *********************
Camera found: Sony VGP-VCC7 #1 
Bridge found: Sony VGP-VCC7 #1 
Not an Spca5xx Camera !!
StreamId: -1 Unknow Camera
Cannot Probe Size !! maybe not an Spca5xx Camera
unable to probe size !!
*****************************************************
 grabbing method default MMAP asked 
VIDIOCGMBUF size 2097152  frames 2  offets[0]=0 offsets[1]=1048576
cmcapture: Invalid argument
cmcapture: Invalid argument
Couldnt get videopict params with VIDIOCGPICT
: Invalid argument
VIDIOCGPICT
brightnes=0 hue=0 color=0 contrast=45548 whiteness=2053 
depth=1 palette=0
Couldnt get videopict params with VIDIOCSPICT
: Invalid argument

cmcapture: Invalid argument
>>cmcapture err -1

[Loads of errors repeating the two lines above]

Used 2735ms for 144 images => 18ms/image 52fps.
Quiting SDL.
Decoded frames:144 Average decode time: 2.000000
unmapping
closing
closed
Destroy Picture thread ...
Quiting....

There's light at the tunnel though - xawtv works just fine. Image looks crappy but that might just be me I'll post the new files soon . It's late and I gotta go to bed sometime ^_^.

Reasons · 2008-04-19 23:40:36

Sounds like a lot of work from something such a low priority.

Wanna share how you even started as I have no idea where to begin for things like this?

.:B:. · 2008-04-20 13:12:34

Hey either you like to tinker or you don't .

New kernel PKGBUILD, adapted kconfig and the patch can all be found at the usual place.

PKGBUILD and related stuff for the r5u870 SVN driver (you pull the firmware package from AUR) can be found here.

Reasons · 2008-04-20 15:51:42

is this using the .25 kernel from testing? Building it either way as I left out printer support for the last one I did.

.:B:. · 2008-04-20 15:56:31

No - this is still my stuff. I tried to check the Arch CVS yesterday for 2.6.25 but got errors, so I didn't have a chance to look at it yet. Haven't checked ABS either, just didn't think of it, but I think testing should be pulled in too now.

I did leave out USB printing support indeed, I have my printer hooked up to my router . As I said, the kconfig was fairly minimal .

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Reasons · 2008-04-20 17:02:10

*Feels stupid for not doing that and rushes off to get a printer to ethernet cable*

Never done (or thought of) this before, any general guidelines?

.:B:. · 2008-04-20 17:16:55

Well I can't tell what will work in your case. My router has USB ports so it's hooked up directly, a USB to RJ45 convertor would work too, I think you should set up CUPS on your laptop with ${router IP}:9100 or something. That's how it usually works - but I think your router should support printing too then. Better check that before you buy a convertor .

Reasons · 2008-04-20 19:52:51

Modified the kernel slightly and then tried to build the webcam. I got this:

Makefile:514: /usr/src/linux-2.6.25-reasons/arch/x86/Makefile: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux-2.6.25-reasons/arch/x86/Makefile'.  Stop.

and a manual check said there was no makefile there.

.:B:. · 2008-04-20 19:57:40

Did you grab the new PKGBUILD? Also, is this the first time you build a 2.6.25 kernel? Some things have moved around, my PKGBUILD was adapted .

Reasons · 2008-04-20 20:03:10

Based everything from here: link

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.:B:. · 2008-04-20 20:12:44

...

You renamed the kernel, but did you adapt the PKGBUILD?

Reasons · 2008-04-20 20:14:18

Everything was adapted. I even went and just did a straight copy of your kernel and still had no luck.

.:B:. · 2008-04-20 20:25:01

Sounds very strange... I had no such errors like that, I'll check tonight and let you know.

Reasons · 2008-04-20 20:28:06

While I am no tinker like you, I'll give it a shot. I'm getting closer to getting the right resolution at boot but it messes up the resolution when I start X.

.:B:. · 2008-04-20 21:22:25

Are you using 915resolution? I'm interested, but as far as I can tell from reading up (which was quite short) it involves quite some stuff and didn't seem worth the trouble...

Edit: rebuilt the kernel here, not a single error like yours - you can find the log here.

To be sure I downloaded the PKGBUILD from my repo and diffed it against the one on my system - they are identical. So I don't know where the error stems from.

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Reasons · 2008-04-20 21:42:28

I'll look into that, rebuild it again I guess. I'm just trying to think why it didn't leave a makefile as that's all I need.

Right now it's pretty unstable (the resolution). Mostly trying older kernels with a frambuffer and bootsplash patches as I couldn't find any new ones.

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.:B:. · 2008-04-23 23:57:17

So? Any progress?

FYI: I got my Bluetooth mouse I ordered today (that way I have both USB ports free for other stuff), and it seems the radio switch just cust off radio alltogether - I know... I thought it would only apply to the WLAN, but it also does so for Bluetooth. Just thought I'd let you know .

Reasons · 2008-04-24 00:30:51

Progress has been pretty slow. Best I've gotten is 1280x800 but that was just through the grub menu.lst. While I doubt this will help or even apply, could you post your makefile that I'm missing? I doubt it will work but I keep rebuilding the kernel and it's not showing up.

Reasons · 2008-05-07 05:35:50

I may have your answer. I went to Debian today for various reasons. I tried grub with this
kernel boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-amd64 root=/dev/hda6 ro vga=0x0362

and got the right resolution.:)

superstoned · 2009-05-12 15:54:31

*bump*
A TZ is going to arrive for me tomorrow... So I wonder wow it is doing these days in terms of linux support ;-)

Most importantly, of course, has either of you gotten the two finger scrolling to ever work?

.:B:. · 2009-05-12 16:04:53

I have what I need working . That is - Bluetooth, wireless, suspend, etc. The card reader is still a problem. For Bluetooth I needed to stick with the 3.x series (if you need packages, ask me) because 4.x is still unable to build a connection that persists between reboots or sleep modes of the keyboard & mouse. Screen resolution etc. all work out of the box now, Xorg without a config is pretty neat .

superstoned · 2009-05-12 19:50:47

good news, thanks! looking forward to a smooth out-of-the-box-arch-experience
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