This is a simple project to keep track of the files and setting I needed to change in order to get Ubuntu Working on the Sony Vaio F11 VPCF Series. This setup is for Ubuntu 10.10. If I get a chance, I may post how to patch the Kernel, although I had mix results with the Kernel patch where it made the fan and system run hotter then without the patch. I may try a few different kernel settings see if I can't fix that.

To install the packages from the list but besure to have the apt/sources.list copied and performed an apt-get update: dpkg --set-selections < installed-software dselect

Some key points, the etc/default/grub has the touchpad fix (i8042.nopnp). It has some extras that was supposed to be fore sleep/hibernate fix, but that is fixed in etc/pm/sleep.d

Remember to download and install the latest NVIDIA drivers. The Xorg conf I have is for my setup as I do not have two monitors to connect to this and I generally use it with one monitor and the laptop lid closed. Note the disper helps with this. disper -s == primary monitor and disper -S == secondary monitor.

The xterm in the bin is simply because I could not get the color preferences to stick, so I made it a shell script to call xterm with the defaults, seems to work just fine.