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Disclaimer: Use at own risk!
Last Updated January 23rd, 2003
PictureBook | New Users | Solutions
Sony | VAIO PictureBook | Web Forum/Mailing List | Windows 2000 | Windows XP | Linux | Network Cards | FreeBSD | OpenBSD | Transmeta | Newsgroups
Do you have or know of a useful link not listed below? Send me the link. Thanks!
Sony
- Sony media relations Press Releases
- Sony C1VN Support Site
- Sony Direct Accessories & Parts Center
- C1VN Service Manual is Part Number 987212611 (Search on model PCG-C1VN for more items)
- Sony Support Quick Links
VAIO PictureBook
- Check out my page with info about it, pictures, and the Hot (or Not) people who have them.
- Fabien Musty's Japanese laptops import business: GWSD/Audioneird in Brussels
- Ken Nishikatsu's VAIO Accessories Plus ebay store
- Dynamism has an Accurate printable PDF of a C1XE Keyboard Please download it only once so they don't yank the file.
- A PictureBook goes around the world (nice site)
- PCG-C1VN Specifications (requires Acrobat or xpdf)
- A description of what a progressive scan camera does here, here, here, and here
- 24-bit sound recording: 24-bit computer-based field recording using twin C1VNs. Out in the Trenches.
- SW to use display as 480x1024 instead 1024x480: Portrait Display
- SW to reorient mouse for 480x1024 display: Microsoft Mouse Driver
- Memtest86 to test for bad memory.
- Mobile mounts and stands for notebooks a2z Mobile Office Solutions
- Mobile mounts, stands, glareguards, etc. for notebooks and PDAs Interactive Products
Hard Drives
- OEM HD manual
- IBM quiet, fast 20 and 40 GB, 9.5mm hard drives which should fit. Press release.
- For IBM drives you can choose performance or battery life; from alphaWorks
- Toshiba makes 30 and 40 GB hard drives which should work in the PictureBook.
- My page with hard drive install instructions.
- Tom's Hardware Guide covers installing a new HD into the C1V* PictureBooks.
- HD upgrade (Japanese) with lots of pictures.
USB Stuff
- USB-powered light Kensington FlyLight Notebook USB Light
- USB to 9-pin serial converter.
- USB to IrDA converter.
- USB to memorystick (and 5 other memory cards). The Y-E DATA Hexa Media Drive YD-8V14 reads memory sticks, and: "This product does not support any copyright protection."
Web Forum/Mailing Lists
- PCG-C1 Web Forum
- Sony Vaio C1 Forum Mailing List
- Linux (Open Source Vaio-pcg-c1-general Mailing List
- Mr. Bojangles multiple C1 forums
- Vaio Village
Windows XP
- Official Sony support --> C1VN
Windows 2000
- Official Sony support --> US: C1VN, Japan: C1VJ.
- Rory Davidson's site for all your W2K on the C1Vx needs
- A Japanese site on putting W2K on the C1VJ VAIO C1VJ Tuning Lab - Windows2000 Clean Install How to
- Rogier Meurs' instructions for getting W2K
to work with the PictureBook screen
- Nat's guide to getting stuff working under Windows 2000 on the SONY C1VN
- Greg Simmon's SONY C1VN stuff
- Cardbus BIOS update for non-C1VN Crusoe PictureBooks under Solutions.
- VAIO C1VJ Windows 2000 page. (Japanese)
- Drivers: VAIO PCG-C1VE and Windows 2000
Linux
General
- Security starters: Bastille Linux and Jay Beale's Linux/Unix Security Page
- Linux
on Laptops
- Linux USB page
- TuxMobil v3.10 Linux-Mobile-Guide German version
- Linux Documentation Project web site
- XFree86 ATI Documentation for 4.0.3
- Linux kernel patch for bad memory.
PCG-C1V* PictureBook Specific
- My page with solutions.
- Bluetooth instructions and info
- Beta Linux modem drivers here
- Sony Programmable I/O here.
- Sony Programmable I/O Control Module for Linux.
- FN Keys and Camera: Rusty Foster's utilities' instructions and the package
- The Sony Vaio PCG-C1 Picturebook Project page
- External Monitor: Pierre Lamon posted his solution to get 1024x768 @ 60 Hertz here.
- Full Width Text Console: Marcel Wijlaars' fix is now in the kernel, starting with 2.4.5-ac20 (Earlier versions: patch (or get it via FTP)).
- Memorystick: Marc Boucher's Memorystick patch for 2.4.x kernels and Mike Hopkins' steps under Solutions.
- Sound: Andy Nguyen's sound under kernel 2.4.x printable instructions
- Jogdial: Ilja Gerhardt's Jogdial/imwheel combo
- Jogdial: KDE applet Utiliser le JogDial sous Linux: Download
- Jogdial: S-Jog Homepage: Download
- Jogdial: jogdiald uses /dev/sonypi
- LongRun for Linux: FTP it from here and patch for LongRun on Red Hat 8
- Motion Eye Camera software
- Set brightness software (for a C1XS; anyone tried it with a C1V*?)
- Set brightness software 2 Alternate Link
- USB Floppy
- Japanese instructions for Motion Eye Camera, LongRun, etc. here
- Japanese notes(?) on the VAIO_C1VJ
- Brett Hutley's Vaio Monitoring Program page
- Sketch's Vaio PictureBook Page with lots of cool patches
- Gnome-Jog Dave Reeve's gnome applet for using the Jog Dial (Volume, Mouse and Brightness modes)
- Accelerated XFree86 video drivers for the ATI Mach64 chipset on Linux
Debian
- Bram Stolk's Installing linux on sony vaio c1ve without CD or Floppy. May hose your system.
- Possible Debian install from partition or floppy instructions.
- Magenta's Sony Picturebook C1VN
- Sony VAIO PictureBook PCG-C1VN
- Nick Brown's Linux on a Sony Vaio PCG-C1VE
- Jeremy Field's GNU/Linux info
- Pawan Jaitly's Debian installation on to a transmeta vaio picturebook without a floppy or cd drive
- gooshin's GNU/Linux on Sony VAIO C1VR/BP(J) page. (English/Korean)
- ISHIKAWA Mutsumi's HANZUBONIZM (Japanese)
- Camera and Jogdial package
- Moray Allan's Linux on the C1VE page
- Wendy Seltzer's Wendy's Picturebook Page
- Armando Atienza, Jr. has a C1VN/Debian Page
- Frank Ronneburg`s C1VE Debian page
Holon
- Junichi Morita's Linux Read And Write (Japanese) also Redhat, Slackware, and other Linux stuff
Kondara
- NaO's VAIO PCG-C1VJ with Linux! (Japanese)
Mandrake
- Lee Boynton's page Sony PCG-C1VN Linux Notes
- Jay Beale's page Sony Vaio C1VN Linux How-To
- Kyler Laird's page
- Abe Waranowitz's SONY C1VN Files for Linux
- Wild Bill's PCG-C1VPK.
- Andy Balcome's c1ve site.
Midori (Transmeta)
- Midori Home Page SourceForge Midori Linux Project
Red Hat
- A security overview for Red Hat; a good starting point.
- Ron Ueberschaer's page on Linux on the C1VN
- My Red Hat 7.1 and X printable instructions and X config file
- My kernel 2.4.* on Red Hat 7.0 (respin) printable instructions (including how to patch it) and kernel config file
Slackware
- Michael Dosser's The sony vaio PCG-C1VE page
- David Watsons' Vaio C1VM page (Note: Install instructions for those w/o the CD/DVD)
Suse
- Michael Heiming's Sony Picturebook PCG-C1VN (Transmeta Crusoe CPU) & Linux 2.4 (German)
- Robert Brook's Vaio page
- Eric Andron's Sony C1 page
TurboLinux
- tziwo vaio pcg-c1vj Turbo, Red Hat, W2K, etc. (Japanese)
Unknown
- Takaya Kinjo's page on VAIO-C1VJ w/ Linux has Jogdial code
Vine
- Multi_7's VAIO C1VJ Linux Install (Japanese)
WOW Linux
- Ercyi's Homepage (Korean)
Emperor Linux
- Get a C1VN 'preinstalled' with RedHat, Slackware, or Mandrake: "Kiwi"
Network Cards That Work With Linux
- I've used both an old 3Com EtherLink III and a 3Com Megahertz 10/100 LAN PC Card model 3CXFE574BT.
- See Lee Boynton's page to see what he uses.
- Not sure why people are having trouble with this; maybe leaving something out of their kernel?
- Hubert Samm notes he was able to get the Linksys USB100TX "USB" Ethernet adapter working using the "pegasus" driver in 2.4.2
- See David Watson's PCMCIA page to see what he uses.
FreeBSD
- Michael Dosser's The Sony Vaio PCG-C1VE page for FreeBSD
- Jay Kuri's The PictureBook Page
OpenBSD
- Sony PCG C1VE
Transmeta Crusoe Processor
- Transmeta's website and C1VN Page
- Transmeta Zone website
Newsgroups
- Portables comp.sys.portables
- Linux on Portables comp.os.linux.portable
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