VAIO VGN-FS550 Sound Problem

[salmankhilji]

I have a new Sony VAIO VGN-FS550 laptop. I installed Linux on it and the sound card was not detected. In Windows XP, it looks like it has integrated Realtek sound system. However, I could not determine exactly what model # it is.

There are a few Linux drivers available on Realtek's website, but I cannot try them until I know what model # my sound card is.

Has anyone gotten sound working on this laptop under Linux?

[trchbrr]

Have you been able to get the USB devices to be detected?

I have the same system and I can not get the USB devices to be detected.
Any experience on this subject would be greatly appreciated.

- trchbrr

[salmankhilji]

Originally Posted by trchbrr

Have you been able to get the USB devices to be detected?

I have the same system and I can not get the USB devices to be detected.
Any experience on this subject would be greatly appreciated.

- trchbrr

My USB flash drives work ok.

[trchbrr]

Ok - then how did you get them to work?
I am using VMware and loading FC3 as guest.
It will not recognize my ports. Though it says two are
available in the VMware shell - in the VM > removable devices.

If you have any experience that you could send my way I would
appreciate it.

How did you get your sound to work?

- trchbrr

[salmankhilji]

I don't use VMWare. The USB flash drive worked okay without having to do anything on my part.

Sound does not work in Fedora. The only way I got it to work was under Ubuntu by downloading the drivers from the realtek website and compiling the modules myself. Even on Ubuntu Hoaray, I had to make a one-line change for the ALSA drivers to compile as they were written for an older kernel.

By installing the ALSA drivers from the realtek website, there still was an issue where the machine would hang during shutdown. I gave up on the issue. I intend to wait for a newer distribution that has ALSA 1.09 as that was suggested to me on the ALSA mailing list.