User:Lidel/Sony Vaio VGN-FW21E

This article describes the hardware on the FW21E and the drivers required to use it.

The Sony Vaio VGN-FW21E is an Intel Centrino 2 notebook with a P8400 Core 2 Duo CPU. It has 4096MB of RAM and a 320GB hard drive. The graphic is provided by a ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3470 and the display has a resolution of 1600x900 (16:9).

Summary and Support Status
TODO

Hard Disk
The hard disk controller should work with the standard AHCI driver:

Make sure that AHCI support is compiled into the kernel, and not as a module, or the kernel may fail to boot.

Input Devices
The keyboard support for X11 is provided by evdev. A driver for VAIO-specific keys is present in kernel. Touchpad support is provided through synaptics.

If you plan to use USB keyboard or mouse, remember to enable HID.

Touchpad/mouse scrollwheel functionality works perfectly.

Ethernet
Ethernet networking is provided by a Marvell Yukon 88E8055 gigabit device.

802.11 Wifi
Wifi connectivity is provided by an Intel 5100 AGN Wireless adapter:

Bluetooth
TODO

Firewire
TODO

Video Chipset
TODO

Sound
The audio hardware is handled by the Intel HD Audio driver:

Webcam
The built-in webcam is a is supported through V4L with USB2.0 UVC:

Backlight control
Until support in is introduced vaio-fw21e-backlight2.sh script can be used.

One can set it as a backlight keys response defined in /etc/acpi/default.sh (  daemon is required) or just run it by hand.

There is also a legacy version which requires the rhd_dump tool which used to be present in the radeonhd driver (perhaps one could try building it?).

Memory Card Reader
The memory card reader works fine with the standard driver: