After various requests and personal interest in the matter, I finally tryed to get skype working on my Sony Vaio SZ6 with Arch Linux 64bit and pulseaudio installed. Skype and linux never mingled all that well. Supporting linux was never high on their todo list and they surely acted upon it. Skype has never gotten [...]
After upgrading to the recently released gnome power manager 2.6.26.4, suspending and hibernating my Sony Vaio SZ 61 after a period of inactivity finally works. Note that suspension and hibernation already worked as is. Linux has always lacked decent power management in comparison with Windows, but now this option finally works, it can save a [...]
If you somewhat follow this blog, you probably know that I’m running Arch Linux as my primary operating system. I’m using this on my Sony Vaio SZ 6 for +/- 5 months now. I’m very pleased with both Arch Linux and the laptop and they happily work together. This article is about how I set [...]
Today I was surprised in a very pleasant way. I performed my daily routine of updating my Sony Vaio SZ6, powered by Arch Linux. When I rebooted my laptop a few hours later, I was welcomed by a dimmed screen. That never happened to me before. Don’t get me wrong, I can change my screen [...]