So my new toy is a Sony Vaio P. I've had several of the previous little Sony Vaios (505TX!) and had to jump on this one after playing with the keyboard more and realizing I could comfortably touch type on
it. Here is is running Ubuntu 9.04. Basically everything is working, including the Poulsbo chipset driver with a recent kernel and x.org 7.4. The PSB driver is a complete pain in the ass, and even now I don't have it working optimally. The brightness control is working and the general video speed is not bad, but my coworker running Debian on his with the same patches on the same driver is getting much better performance. A mystery to me there. No 3D or video decoding working at this time. I intend to switch over to Debian after all. (The only reason I didn't install in the first place was because the Sky2 ethernet driver used for the built in ethernet is not included with the Debian net install, but I have a supported USB adapter now.) Otherwise, runs great. Definitely a nice little machine.

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