Sony_Vaio_VGN-TZ90S

Hardware

• Intel Core Duo 1.2 GHz, 2400 BogoMIPs/core
• 1GB RAM
• WXGA 1366x768 Screen with LCD backlight
• Intel ICH7 Chipset
• 32 GB IDE Solid State Disk
• 160 GB Toshiba SATA HDD
• Marvell Yukon gigabit ethernet
• Intel PRO/Wireless 394ABG Wireless LAN
• Ricoh R5C843 SD slot
• Ricoh R5C592 Memory stick slot
• Holtek Semiconductor Fingerprint reader
• Ricoh Motion Eye Webcam
• Bluetooth
• Firewire
• USB2
• Cardbus slot
• Fingerprint Sensor
• *No* optical drive

Introduction

This is one of the lightest and sexiest laptops on the market today. I wanted to get the lightest machine that still runs a full operating system, and the SSD was a plus.

Geting started

Getting to the first boot is an adventure, as there is no CD/DVD device to boot from. The best choice is to make a USB key from one of the Gentoo install CD's. I used the universal install CD, but I don't recommend this, as the graphical part didn't work well, and the ncurses installer was primitive. I recommend installing from a minimal install CD following the install guide using a stage tarball. The yukon wired ethernet is recognized out of the box, so it's a matter of linking to net.eth0 and starting it.

Kernel

Xorg

Battery saving setup

WLAN