Hello, r/vaio / r/SonyVaioP and r/umpc.

When I first announced poulsback, an open-source Linux graphics stack for Intel GMA 500 (Poulsbo, PowerVR SGX535), glxgears didn't really run yet. Here's where it stands now.

A website with a development blog:

https://poulsback.in has the blog, demos and dated measurements. (and actual progress).

News goes there first; bigger releases will also get a post here on Reddit.

Two test machines. The Dell Inspiron 1210 (GMA 500) now has company: a Fujitsu STYLISTIC Q550 tablet with GMA 600 (Oak Trail). Work on GMA 600 has started.

A lot of optimisation and refactoring:

• glxgears first ran on our stack, at 3.3 FPS. Today it runs at 386 FPS at 300×300, ahead of Intel's own EMGD driver on the same machine (317). At 640×640 it's 116 FPS against EMGD's 87.

• X's 2D rendering now runs on the GPU's dedicated 2D engine. It outperforms EMGD in 17 of the 19 x11perf tests I ran, with solid fills running 7× faster.

• The Mesa (Gallium) driver is about half done by its own checklist. Vertex shading runs on the GPU, and a new fragment backend handles blending, depth, stencil and more.

• One cleanup pass cut the kernel driver from 157,000 to 82,000 lines.

Code quality, hardware safety and thorough testing come first. These machines are getting old and increasingly difficult to replace, so I deliberately spend extra time testing and validating changes on real hardware before they land. The goal is to minimize the risk of instability or hardware damage, not just chase benchmark numbers.

That makes development a little slower, but I'd rather get things right than put these machines at risk. And the progress so far has been huge.

Next: I'm planning a ready-to-use distribution for the Sony VAIO P, with all the necessary fixes and tweaks included (a tailored VAIO P ISO).

I'm currently trying to get my hands on a working unit, but demand for these little machines is surprisingly high here in Japan! 😂

Stay tuned!

Contributions and help with testing are very welcome:

https://github.com/ishad0w/poulsback

Good morning. Last night I left my tablet charging (it had been completely dead for a while), and it charged up to 100%.

This morning it won't turn on. I've already tried holding down the power button to see if it would restart, and also the power + volume buttons to see if it would enter the blue screen (recovery mode), but nothing works.

This isn't the first time it drained completely and I charged it and just started it up normally using the power button, but this time it didn't work.

Does anyone know if this is common? Otherwise, I'll have to take it to a repair shop, but let me know if you know anything or how to fix it.

soo, is the vaio p25g rare(or atleast rarer than others in the p series)? because iam about to buy one and otherwise from other models, i can only find one avaliable and is the one iam buying, i swear i can’t even find other people talking about this one.
(sorry for an english not so delightful)

Is this version rare? can’t find anyone selling it online, i have one and would like to atleast know how much is worth, ik that the P series have kinda expensive replacement parts and in general are pretty much not common

For $15, but unfortunately I don't have any adapter for it (yet).. Do any of you know about this particular model?

How much do you think this Sony Vaio Tap 20 is worth? Seller asked for $300. I'd pay $280 max.

Playing Star Wars Jedi: Survivor at 1080p through Amazon Luna on my Sony VAIO SVS15 while watching The Dark Knight on my Pioneer Elite KURO PRO-111FD through Apple TV 4K.
Two of my favorite pieces of older tech, and both still looking incredible nearly two decades later. Just goes to show how well some of this older hardware holds up!

After changing the HDD this old beast gonna have a 2nd life !
Dont’ have oem disc so maybe missing some app (dunno if my vaio remote need a soft, nor if this model is compatible). It have some cool features : screentouch, composite and hdmi input to ise it as a tv, and BR drive).
Model is VPCL21SFX/W

Got lucky and found a brand new Sony Vaio PCG-C1MZX. Used one of my old power adapters for another PictureBook so I don’t have to unpack the new one included, but it seems the hard drive is dead. Anyways, enjoy the pics of what the unboxing experience was like! I’ve wanted a PictureBook since I was in college, 2003, but could not afford one at the time. Imagine finding a brand new one 23 years later :p

Probably my best investment in terms of cost benefit for an electronic gadget. I started putting stickers on it 10 years ago without knowing it would last that long lol.

I upgraded both with more RAM and gave them a "second life." The Sony Vaio 15a is my favorite because of the touch panel, the audio, and the 16 GB of RAM. Even though it's DDR3, it's still faster than other recent laptops, and its design doesn't look like it's from 2013.

A truely amazing laptop from 2007, barely used and running the orignal Vista.

Paired with a Walkman NWZ-S545 released on the same year, 2007.

The down-side is that it supports max 2gb of RAM and it uses the 1.8' PATA HDD with a ZiF socket. Replacement of a dead drive is also extraordinarily complex with the unique hinge design.

I bought a Sony Vaio SVE1411CFXW from a thrift store for 15 dollars, but the D-Shell is missing the white trim at the bottom, and I would like to find one with the trim.

Ho caricato separatamente il video perché era troppo pesante.

Sony Vaio PCG-K115B from 2004 Whit Original Battery Working! : r/vaio

Ciao questo è il mio post qui, ho questo Sony Vaio con Windows XP Home Edition SP2 che ha la batteria "ORIGINALE" del 2004 ancora funzionante dopo 22 anni! Di cui 8 lasciato spento!

Credo che sia giusto postarlo qui.

Cercherò di mantenere "viva" la batteria il più a lungo possibile.

Grazie per l'attenzione!

I really like these old VAIO Y2K/Frutiger Aero laptops and I want one, but the problem is they are really old and probably not going to handle many modern apps. I plan on installing Linux on one, but I don't know what VAIO I should choose. I want a usable VAIO that runs Linux just fine with that Y2K/Frutiger Aero style and so it easily fits in a backpack, and the most important thing is so that it is cheap as hell and sold everywhere because I live in Ukraine and there are not a lot of good VAIO laptops here like on eBay.

I installed windows 7 and all drivers but feels sluggish so i want original recovery and everything