How To Suse 10.2 On A Sony Viao Fs 875

After installing several different laptops with SUSE 10.2 for people, the Sony VIAO FS 875 was the worst. Here is what we had to do:

* Didn't see the cdrom after install -
boot option: hdb=cdrom

* Kept freezing -
boot option: acpi=off

* After using acpi=off, the Intel Pro Wireless card would not power up (dmesg | grep ipw) showed TX_POWER failure.
boot options: lapci irqpoll

All together now:

Boot Options: hdb=cdrom lapci irqpoll acpi=off

For anyone else out there with this laptop, I hope this helps.

Thats crazy. I own IBM ThinkPad R50e . I never had problem while installing any Linux distro. May be because my laptop is Centrino = Intel original board with all Intel chips? Quit possible.

This is the first time i hear that you/some1 tried Linux on SONY VAIO . I am sure SONY is not so good supported vendor for other OS than Windows. :unsure:

sony don't seem to like any os other than windows, it voids your warranty if you change your os

I have a Sony Vaio FX905 which I have installed various versions of SuSE, currently opensuse 10.2, and Kubuntu without any issues at all. No tweeking required to get any of them running.