tushar.mehta

i have a sony vaio cr363 black laptop having a OS vista home premium and i want to replace it with fedora core 9.

i want to know that wikll there any kind of driver or any other issues will be there?

will it work properly on my laptop?

if there are issues can anyone tell me what the solutions for that?

thanks.

wmorri

Welcome to TSF!!

There shouldn't be an issues with installing just the main distro by itself. Are you looking to dual boot with Vista, by chance? That won't cause a problem but will mean that you will have to make sure that you create a new partition and keep the windows one around. Linux works on virtually every PC without any major problems.

If you do find a problem when you install Fedora just let us know.

Cheers!

tushar.mehta

Hey got the FC9 installed successfully!!!
Now i have on my harddis only one OS that fedora!!!
but there are few issues remaining...
1) brightness level of the screen is somewhat low compare to when it was on vista
can anybody tell me how i can increse the level of the brightness....

2) Need one good video player that play almost all format
i tried the vlc but while configuring it is showing me that few libraries are missing...
so i need link where i can get whole package

3) How i will access my webcame? what are the steps required to get my WC back to work?

wmorri

Hi,

Glad to hear that your install went so well. I have done a little looking and found a couple of things for you.
I don't have an answer for that just yet but, it do know that if you do a little looking on your computer you should be able to find a menu that can help you. You might even be able to increase the brightness on the computer itself.
I found this for you: VLC for Fedora. Take a look at it. It has the instructions for downloading and installing VLC.
I need to know what brand of webcam you have. So that I can do a little research on it.

Cheers!

tushar.mehta

every thing is working fine but still my functions keys are not working...
and regarding brightness...i m not able to control it. if my fuunctions works then i can control the brightness level of my screen.

is threr anything i can do with it...

and how i can find in fedora 9 which kind of webcam i have???

Graphics are too good. After enabling desktop effect it is wonderful...
Fedora 9 is too good but due to these problems i m very tired and feeling helpless

help me!!!

wmorri

Just tell me the make and model of the WC and I will try to find drivers for it.

Let me know what you have and I will do my best to help you.

Cheers!

tushar.mehta

sorry wmorii, i don't know what is my WC model,
it is located on the top of the lid with motion eye return below it.
I have no paper regarding this WC. so what should i do so that u get the information what u want
i m feeling that i m disturbing u too much,
sorry if i m.

wmorri

Hi,

I would like you to please post the output for this:
This will be really long but don' worry i just need to see it all.

Cheers!

tushar.mehta

here is the output:

[Tushar@TusharMehta Desktop]$ /sbin/lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9015
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 0c) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
Memory behind bridge: fc000000-fc0fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f0000000-00000000f7ffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver

00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9015
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 1800 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9015
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
I/O ports at 1820 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9015
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
Memory at fc404000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
Kernel modules: ehci-hcd

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9015
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
Memory at fc400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff
Memory behind bridge: d6000000-d7ffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000de000000-00000000dfffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver

00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=05, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00004000-00004fff
Memory behind bridge: fa000000-fbffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f8000000-00000000f9ffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver

00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=07, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00005000-00005fff
Memory behind bridge: d2000000-d3ffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000da000000-00000000dbffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9015
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
I/O ports at 1840 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9015
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at 1860 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9015
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at 1880 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9015
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
Memory at fc404400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
Kernel modules: ehci-hcd

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=08, subordinate=0c, sec-latency=56
I/O behind bridge: 00006000-00006fff
Memory behind bridge: fc100000-fc1fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000088000000-000000008bffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9015
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA IDE Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9015
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
I/O ports at 18e0 [size=16]
I/O ports at 18d0 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
Kernel modules: ata_piix

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9015
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 19
Memory at 8c000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
I/O ports at 1c00 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
Kernel modules: i2c-i801

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon X2300 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9015
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at fc020000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection (rev 61)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 1100
Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 16
Memory at d6000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: iwl4965
Kernel modules: iwl4965

06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9015
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at 5000 [size=256]
Memory at d2000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at da000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169

08:07.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9015
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 20
Memory at fc100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=08, secondary=09, subordinate=0c, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 88000000-8bfff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 90000000-93fff000
I/O window 0: 00006000-000060ff
I/O window 1: 00006400-000064ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
Kernel modules: yenta_socket

08:07.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9015
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 21
Memory at fc102000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Memory at fc104000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci
Kernel modules: firewire-ohci

08:07.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 9015
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 57, IRQ 20
Memory at fc101000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: tifm_7xx1
Kernel modules: tifm_7xx1

[Tushar@TusharMehta Desktop]$

tushar.mehta

i think there is no information is present regarding the webcam!!!
what do u think?

and my ATI graphics card is listed. so can i say that Fedora 9 has detected it properly and it is functioning at its peak?

tushar.mehta

lsusb output:

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 007 Device 002: ID 0483:2016 SGS Thomson Microelectronics Fingerprint Reader
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 13ba:0017
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05ca:1839 Ricoh Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

tushar.mehta

i have installed one application named: cheese ( which uses webcam driver that i have read, u can check also as i may wrong....)
but it is crashing when i run it!!!

wmorri

Hi,

Sorry about the long wait getting back to you. I think that I may have found a solution for you. Take a look at this website, Motioneye and fedora 9. I think that it should give you the help that you have been waiting for.

Cheers!

tushar.mehta

Hey u no what when send me this link i have already tried it and was going to send you this link but before i do it u have done that.

before i have followed the instructions mentioned at this link(http://penguinenclave.blogspot.com/2...-fedora-9.html)

chesse was just gettting crashed when i run it but after following this procedure it now started up well but wait when i presse the button for taking picture from my webcam my laptop was hanged!!! i was suprised as i was happy that all the steps are implemented smoothly so all should go well but didn't.

today i will try again on that.

and yes i remembred that at the following step:

gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src ! ffmpegcolorspace ! ximagesink

which was done after blacklisting uvcvideo module, i got some message on the terminal from the kernel saying that " there is a kernel crashed!!!!!1" and i was not sure whether the new module is fitted well or not.

will try again and will send the logs and the current status the driver(r5u870).

tushar.mehta

do u know how can i create a restore kind of thing as i m now doing the activities which is very critical and dont want to lost my updated system.

so is there anyway so that i can backup my whole system so that if something goes wrong i can recover from that

thanks

wmorri

Hi,

Here are a couple of options for you to look at: Backup with Areca, Backup entire fedora.

Cheers!