{"id":811,"date":"2008-11-05T14:23:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T13:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=811"},"modified":"2009-03-15T15:27:38","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T14:27:38","slug":"ubuntu-810-on-sony-vgn-ar51e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/11\/ubuntu-810-on-sony-vgn-ar51e\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 8.10 on Sony VGN-AR51E"},"content":{"rendered":"

After installing Ubuntu 8.10 on my Sony laptop (VGN-AR51E)<\/a> this is a list of some of the configurations I’ve made:<\/p>\n

Fixes<\/h4>\n
    \n
  1. The web-cam (MotionEye – Ricoh USB r5u870) doesn’t work, I think the driver isn’t in the kernel for Ubuntu 8.10. In fact, \/dev\/video0 is completely missing (see bug 255678<\/a>). This is how to fix:<\/li>\n
      \n
    1. lsusb gives: 05ca:1839 Ricoh Co., Ltd<\/code><\/li>\n
    2. Download the latest driver: svn co http:\/\/svn.mediati.org\/svn\/r5u870\/trunk r5u870<\/code> ( see http:\/\/wiki.mediati.org\/b\/2008\/01\/r5u870\/<\/a> for more info)<\/li>\n
    3. Do the following:\n
      \r\ncd r5u870\r\nsudo apt-get install build-essential subversion\r\nmake\r\nmake install\r\nReboot the machine\r\nsudo chmod 777 \/dev\/video0\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
    4. Test with gstreamer-properties<\/code> or xawtv<\/code> or skype<\/code><\/li>\n
    5. Cheese still doesn’t work but nevermind.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n
      Configurations<\/h4>\n
        \n
      1. To get DVD playback working: Install the Xine movie player: sudo apt-get install xine-ui<\/code><\/li>\n
      2. To get youtube working: Go to www.youtube.com<\/a>, click to play a video and then click on the link to install Flash. Adobe provide a deb file that works fine – just make sure you don’t miss the Firefox “Allow this software to install” notification. Also, sometimes I have restart to see flash work (but other times it worked without a restart?)<\/li>\n
      3. Install essential Firefox Add-ons:<\/li>\n
          \n
        1. Install the British English Dictionary extension and restart Firefox. Once restarted, right- click inside a text field and choose English \/ British under the Language settings.<\/li>\n
        2. Install LastTab<\/a> (I can’t understand why pressing Ctrl+Tab doesn’t default to your last tab in the base installation of Firefox?)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
        3. Edit \/etc\/hosts<\/code> and add the names of the other machines on our network<\/li>\n
        4. Set up the printer:<\/li>\n
            \n
          1. Turn the printer on.<\/li>\n
          2. Click System->Administration->Printing. There should be 4 Devices, one being “HP Photosmart 3200 series 192.168.0.5”.<\/li>\n
          3. Select “HP” in the “Select printer from database”, Then “Photosmart 3200”.<\/li>\n
          4. The printer should now work.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
          5. Remove the Windows recovery partition from the Grub Boot screen (because confusingly, it has the same name as the real Windows partition and I kept booting into the recover partition instead of the rubbish but game-playing-enabled OS I expected.<\/li>\n
              \n
            1. sudo gedit \/boot\/grub\/menu.lst<\/code>. Then comment out the first occurrence of Windows which is at the end of the file.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
            2. I like to press “super+d” to see my desktop (i.e. minimise all). To map this keyboard shortcut: System -> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts. Under “Windows Management” section, click the “Hide all windows and focus desktop” and the press “Super+d”.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
              Still not working:<\/p>\n
                \n
              1. Three of the Sony Custom keyboard buttons: DVD eject button and 2 user programmable buttons. None of the methods described in https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/LaptopTestingTeam\/HotkeyResearch<\/a> work.<\/li>\n
              2. The Headphones socket.<\/li>\n
              3. The card reader works for SD cards but not “Memory Stick Pro” cards (which is unsurprising since it is a Sony proprietary technology).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
                After installing Ubuntu 8.10 on my Sony laptop (VGN-AR51E) this is a list of some of the configurations I’ve made: Fixes The web-cam (MotionEye – Ricoh USB r5u870) doesn’t work, I think the driver isn’t in the kernel for Ubuntu 8.10. In fact, \/dev\/video0 is completely missing (see bug 255678). This is how to fix: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,32],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techjournal","tag-computing","tag-linux"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}