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Sony VAIO PCG-C1VN PictureBook Links

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Last Updated January 23rd, 2003
PictureBook | New Users | Solutions
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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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