I got a sony vaio SVP laptop from february this year. After upgrading it from mint 16 to 17 the following issues appeared:
- The laptop does not recognise a monitor on boot. It gives a black screen, and I have to press ctrl+alt+del to have it reboot, after which it boots fine.
==> I googled for this problem and every solution I found basically said get proprietary drivers, but I don't have an nvidia card and as far as I could find intel cards run on generic drivers.
- The wifi is extremely unstable and has terrible reception. I did not have this problem in 16, it is new!!
==> I googled for this and it said it was a problem in the linux kernel, and to update the kernel to the latest version. I followed a tutorial to do this for mint, but that caused the following:
- If I run a dual screen setup, resolution gets reset to basic values, although the control panel will still display both resolutions as HD (I use one screen with 1920*1200 and one with 1920*1080), if I boot one only one screen, be it laptop or external, display works okay.
I uninstalled the latest kernel (downloaded latest stable), and installed the latest kernel that was in the mint updater. This did not solve the problem and I still can't run a dual screen setup.
Here is my inxi output:
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System: Host: harrenhal Kernel: 3.13.0-37-generic x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.8.2) Desktop: Gnome Distro: Linux Mint 17 Qiana
Machine: System: Sony (portable) product: SVP1321C5E version: C60CAFUV
Mobo: Sony model: VAIO Bios: American Megatrends version: R1043V7 date: 11/21/2013
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i5-4200U CPU (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 9178.66
Clock Speeds: 1: 800.00 MHz 2: 800.00 MHz 3: 800.00 MHz 4: 800.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0
X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1920x1200@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Haswell Mobile GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.2.2 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card-1: Intel Lynx Point-LP HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Card-2: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:03.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.13.0-37-generic
Network: Card: Intel Wireless 7260 driver: iwlwifi ver: in-tree: bus-ID: 01:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 3128.6GB (72.2% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: SAMSUNG_MZHPU128 size: 128.0GB
2: USB id: /dev/sdb model: My_Book_1140 size: 3000.6GB
Partition: ID: / size: 50G used: 33G (70%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 4.44GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
RAID: No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 171 Uptime: 37 min Memory: 1367.1/7892.4MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.2 Client: Shell inxi: 1.8.4