Bluelabel Sony Vaio VPCSC1AFM/S missing advertised Radeon chip?

Hey guys,
I purchased this blue label Sony vaio laptop the other day (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Sony+-+VAIO+Laptop+/+Intel%26%23174%3B+Core%26%238482%3B+i5+Processor+/+...). It says that the laptop uses AMD Radeon HD 6470M graphics but when I went to confirm it within my graphics properties it says my computer is running Intel HD 3000 graphics. I also used the Intel® System Identification Utility (http://www.intel.com/support/siu.htm) just to be sure but it also stated that my laptop was running Intel HD 3000 graphics and not the AMD Radeon HD 6470M graphics it is supposed to be. My laptop does have the "RADEON graphics" sticker on it.
Im new to this whole chip set thing so I may be misunderstanding how it works. Maybe I have both chips? Can someone please lead me in the right direction.
Thanks,
Ryan

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Doc ID:
Note:131299.1
Subject:
Oracle Installer 8.1.X Hangs on Machines with Pentium 4
Processors
Type:
ALERT
Status:
PUBLISHED
Content
Type:
TEXT/PLAIN
Creation
Date:
02-JAN-2001
Last
Revision Date:
18-APR-2001
This alert was modified 16-January-2001 by specifying specific
Oracle Universal
Installer Versions in the the Versions Affected section.
Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) for 8.1.x Hangs on Machines
with Pentium 4
Processors
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Versions Affected
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Oracle 8.1.5
============
Oracle Universal Installer 1.6.0.9.0
Oracle 8.1.6
=============
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Oracle 8.1.7
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Platforms Affected
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Windows 2000
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Description
~~~~~~~~~~~
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installer hangs.
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Likelihood of Occurrence
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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echo 1500 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
This wakes the disk up less frequently for background VM activity
Suggestion: enable the power aware CPU scheduler with the following command:
echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_mc_power_savings
or by pressing the C key.
Suggestion: Enable SATA ALPM link power management via:
echo min_power > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/link_power_management_policy
or press the S key.
Suggestion: Disable the unused WIFI radio by setting the interface down:
ifconfig wlan0 down
Suggestion: enable HD audio powersave mode by executing the following command:
echo 1 > /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save
or by passing power_save=1 as module parameter.
Suggestion: Enable the CONFIG_INOTIFY kernel configuration option.
This option allows programs to wait for changes in files and directories
instead of having to poll for these changes
Recent USB suspend statistics
Active Device name
100,0% USB device 2-1.6 : RF USB Receiver (A4Tech)
100,0% USB device 1-1.6 : Broadcom Bluetooth Device (Broadcom Corp)
100,0% USB device 1-1.2 : USB 2.0 Camera (SuYin)
100,0% /sys/bus/usb/devices/2-1
100,0% /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-1
100,0% USB device usb2 : EHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.36-ARCH ehci_hcd)
100,0% USB device usb1 : EHCI Host Controller (Linux 2.6.36-ARCH ehci_hcd)
Runtime Device Power Management statistics
Active Device name
0,0% 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 4381
0,0% 03:00.4 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e822
0,0% 03:00.0 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e822
0,0% 02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
0,0% 01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV710/730
0,0% 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M92 [Mobility Radeon HD 4500 Series]
0,0% 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller
0,0% 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller
0,0% 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio
0,0% 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller
Devices without runtime PM
3f:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved
3f:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved
3f:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0
3f:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0
3f:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder
3f:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers
03:00.1 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e230
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 3
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2
4 more devices without runtime PM ommitted
Recent audio activity statistics
Active Device name
100,0% hwC0D0 Realtek ALC269
Recent SATA AHCI link activity statistics
Active Partial Slumber Device name
I've also tried using Power Management tips for Radeon from Arch Wiki but the only option I could set in /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_method file was dynpm and it made no effect.
It seems to me that the main problem is power management of the Radeon card as it interrupts CPUs very often and heats most. I suspect that the CPU temperatures may be increased because of the Radeon ones (but I may be wrong).
I hope someone can help with the issue...
Last edited by deluminathor (2011-01-02 16:49:18)

Mektub wrote:Installed catalyst and surprise! The temperature is now 65 while computing and the fans are much quitter .
I tried replacing xf86-video-ati with catalyst driver and it helped indeed Thanks Mektub!
@kismet010: Did you run aticonfig --initial (as root) after installing catalyst? It's very important. Before I run it the temperatures (and fan noise) were the same as with xf86-video-ati. Actually there are some more configuration steps that have to be taken after installing catalyst - check ATI Catalyst @ ArchWiki.
Now I'm bothering with dual head configuration because catalyst incorrectly sets the primary screen (i.e. the other way round as xf86-video-ati does) but it's for another thread.

My Sony VAIO SVE14AA12U disk button sometimes doesnt work

My Sony VAIO SVE14AA12U disk button sometimes doesnt work and when it finally works it sometimes fails to read my disks.I unistalled the driver and after reboot I click the button and it worked, but when added a disk it jut dont read it. I´ve tried all type of disks new, burned, music and sometimes it reads them, but I got to open the tray with a pin. Please help!

Hi bellaybes,
Thank you for visiting Sony Community!
I am sorry to hear this kind of issue. Is the DVD/CD drive icon missing? Please follow the steps here to isolate your issue:
Power cycle - Remove the battery and all peripherals -> press and hold the power button for 5 seconds OR, if the battery is not removable, remove all peripherals-> look for a battery off button on the bottom of the laptop -> push the button for 5 seconds -> you may use a safety pin if you see a pinhole.
Reset BIOS - While the unit is restarting, tap the F2 key repeatedly. Once in BIOS, go to Exit tab -> select Get default values -> Save the changes and Exit.
Run Troubleshooter - Start -> type Troubleshoot (or simply search for Troubleshoot for Win8/8.1) -> Under Hardware and Sound, select Configure a device -> follow the on-screen instructions.
Run Vaio update and Windows update
The model name SVE14AA12U is possibly just the chassis number or this is not a U.S. model.
For further assistance, we kindly recommend visiting our Sony Global Web site for information on contacting the Sony Support Center in your region at http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/Support/.
Hope these help.
Best regards,
Vincent
If my post answers your question, please mark it as "Accept as Solution"

TS3212 cant download itunes on sony vaio windows 8

I need help please
I purchased a sony vaio a few weeks ago with windows 8 now i cant seem to get my itunes to either download or to work
I initially installed itunes before i activated my norton internet security and i was able to get itunes to download and play music no bother but then when i plugged my iPhone 5 in to sync to the new computer it ended up having a few problems
1. it either said that it couldnt sync due to an error code 0xE8004002
2. it said it couldnt read my iphone and to restore to factory settings
on the first problem i just ejected the iphone and did a reboot and i reboot the computer also but then when i connected again i then got the second error
so i backed everything up on icloud that i could and then tried to restore to factory settings but then another error came up saying that due to an unknown error i could not restore the iphone
i looked at forums and i saw that i should just manually restore from the iphone itself which i did but then icloud lost have my notes that i had but itunes recognised the phone and sync did start but then half way through said that songs could not be snyc'd due to an error and then all my music was greyed out and i couldnt play it
Then i had to begin again with all the errors of not connecting
i then read more forums and was advised to delete itunes then reinstall again. I uninstalled but now i cant get it to reinstall again. Internet explorer keeps saying download interupted when i get to 99% and it will not go any further and google chrome says pc doesnt allow download check internet settings
please help because im about going barmy with this
thanks

got it to download thanks very much

How can I get my mail to open and read documents in Firefox after upgrading to Sony Vaio Gatew 2.4.0

I upgraded my Sony Vaio Gate software to 2.4.0.06210 on Wednesday night. Afterwards, my mail functionality is not working with Firefox. It will work with Internet Explorer, but not with Firefox when I try to do the following such as clicking on check mail, open inbox or trying to open any views or documents.
It will not open, but only states trying to load and indicates the following:unknown property text flow - declaration dropped and it is referencing my mail server in trying to read data from it. However, if I right click and clikd on a new tab it will read in the data and then if i open a new tab again it will open the document. It's not able to stack the data and hold it properly now for some reason. What do I need to do to get it to work with Firefox? Thanks. edit
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x805e0006 [nsIXMLHttpRequest.open]" nsresult: "0x805e0006 (<unknown>)" location: "JS frame :: http://mail.yimg.com/d/combo?/mg/12_0_0/js/yui_utils.js&/mg/12_0_0/js/core.js&bc/bc_2.0.4.js&/mg/12_0_0/js/darla.js&/mg/12_0_0/js/async.js&/ult/ylc_1.9.js&/mg/12_0_0/js/imboot.js&/gx/t12a/js/yui_loader_mg/ba87c64b1f20e3e7898b0dc28b2173a6_1.js&/gx/t12a/js/combo/init/us/5d97332c6924d7b42d469dc77113ac15_1.js&/gx/t12a/js/combo/init/us/ycw.v5b.js :: <TOP_LEVEL> :: line 3" data: no]

Hi Rick,
do you mean I could get a direct download link to After Effects 11.0.4? So I don't have to run this patch that never seems to work?
Hard to believe all the Adobe tech support guys I've spoken to wouldn't have mentioned that, I've spent hours and hours on the phone already....
I will try!
thank you

[SOLVED]Custom DSDT not loading - OEM battery doesn't work - Sony Vaio

EDITING ORIGINAL POST TO POST SOLUTION so I don't do a massive bump
Installed windows and ran the BIOS flasher that came with the battery. Didn't work until I changed a line in the plaintext configuration file (config.ini or something) it comes with. Changed "Capacity: 20" to "Capacity: -10". This changed the battery charge requirement from 20% to negative ten percent (any negative number will do), allowing the program to run and flash the BIOS. Didn't realize I could do that, but it fixed the problem 100%.
#### BEGIN ORIGINAL POST: ################################
Hey guys,
I'm a bit of a linux noob, but I've spent many hours this week trying to fix this issue on my own and have learned a lot about making custom kernels, hardware stuff, ACPI, and ABS. However, nothing I've done has worked and I've hit a wall. For reference, I'm on a Sony Vaio VGN-FZ4000 with linux-3.0 base kernel, gnome3/gdm. The battery is made in china and doesn't list a manufacturer, just model number BPS8, 52000mAh.
[Backstory]
So I recently got an OEM battery to replace the broken original, which hasn't worked since before I installed arch (though it worked with an Arch install I did a couple years ago). When I first plugged it in, the gnome battery symbol popped up listing the battery at 0% with an exclamation icon. I unplugged from AC power and the laptop still ran, but the battery monitor just said it was at 0% and 'Estimating' remaining time. I figured this was a glitch with gnome or just because it was this battery's first cycle so I let it run down until it hard-crashed. Then I plugged back into AC and tried to turn on the computer, but it wouldn't do anything until I removed the battery.
Looking into the problem I discovered this was due to the ACPI firmware table DSDT being compiled for Windows, which has, shall we say, fewer restrictions on sanity than the Intel ASL compiler used for UNIX systems. Sure enough I extracted /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT to find that its section about the battery contained the entry 'Zero' for Battery Technology, which translates to "non-rechargeable", rather than 'One', which makes it chargeable. acpitool confirmed this; my system thought the battery was non-rechargeable and was constantly discharging it. Needless to say I've only been putting it in temporarily to test solutions since.
[/backstory]
[tl;dr] DSDT firmware contains malformed battery description, now I can't get my system to run with a custom DSDT. [/tl;dr]
Attempted solutions:
[1]
Extract, modify, recompile DSDT and include it with the kernel compilation .config options
CONIFG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT=y
CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT_FILE="/usr/src/custom_dsdt.hex
CONIFG_STANDALONE=n
as suggested here, a page linked to by the arch wiki page on DSDT.
I followed the instructions but no matter what this has generated errors during the kernel compilation, sometimes due to every line containing unexpected \231 (or other numbers) characters, sometimes finding some error in the DSDT file and then claiming that the driver it was compiling (ol.c somewhere in the drivers/acpi section I believe) had references to undefined functions all over the place. I CANNOT compile with a custom DSDT specified.
[2]
Place recompiled DSDT in /lib/initcpio/custom.dsdt and add 'dsdt' to the HOOKS in mkinitcpio (and rebuild the initramfs-linux-*.img, of course). Another version of this included recompiling the kernel with CONFIG_STANDALONE disabled.
In neither of these situations has the running DSDT ever been anything but the BIOS-supplied one and not once has the battery shown any different behavior.
acpitool and $ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info have consistently claimed the information specified in the BIOS-supplied DSDT; the battery is non-rechargeable and is discharging at an unknown rate. Sometimes acpi will even report that the battery has zero capacity.
The arch wiki does say mkinitcpio doesn't support the dsdt hook as of 2.6.30, but [1] didn't work either and mkinitcpio -H dsdt still told me to try this so I did.
[3]
The final solution I have tried has been to do [2] but to recompile the kernel with the legacy support for battery and ac adapter stuff disabled. I tried this because it was suggested in the kernel.log;
Sep 13 11:51:03 localhost kernel: [ 11.740059] ACPI: Deprecated procfs I/F for AC is loaded, please retry with CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER cleared
Sep 13 11:51:03 localhost kernel: [ 11.753434] ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP1] (on-line)
The corresponding line now reads
ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP1] (on-line)
(The same goes for the battery BAT0)
but all this does is remove the battery/ and adp1/ folders from /proc/acpi/ and break acpitool functionality. The log still doesn't mention the dsdt hook, either.
[4]
The old way to do this was to use the acpi-dsdt-initrd-patch-* patch, but that hasn't been updated for modern kernels, presumably because of the new "functionality" from mkiniticpio. The current kernel .config doesn't include any options for ACPI initrd/initramfs support or reading a DSDT from initramfs, which is the functionality provided by this patch.
This covers all the methods I've been able to find on the internet and I'm at a loss for what to do. Am I doing something wrong in [1]? Under what conditions will the compiler fail/succeed with a CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT_FILE?
When I recompile I fix the 'Zero' definition and a couple compiler errors and warnings. The errors come from section length definitions, which read as 0x00000000 rather than the appropriate max-min value so I fix those, and the warnings come from _T_* methods belonging to the compiler, so I refactor the code to remove the initial underscores. The last warning comes from an isolated And statement that's within brackets (compiler complains it doesn't do anything), but if I remove that the compiler fails hard.
Thanks to anyone who's read this far. Please let me know if you have any ideas how to get my system to use a customized DSDT.
Last edited by paraffin (2011-09-29 23:20:30)

Thanks for the offer, Radioactive man However, I'm actually compiling a customized kernel with the linux-ck and -sony patches, so your packages won't help. (The custom kernel works fine and I've tested this battery behavior on the the regular, -ck, and -sony kernels as well)
Anyway, so I tried another compile with
CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=n in addition to the options listed in [1] and that time it compiled.
Unfortunately it still didn't load the DSDT!
I did catch a quick little error message that turned up in kernel.log though;
/var/log/kernel.log:Sep 15 11:50:24 localhost kernel: [ 0.925780] acerhdf: unknown (unsupported) BIOS version Sony Corporation/VGN-FZ4000E/R2110J7, please report, aborting!
acerhdf is a fan controller module for the Aspire One, and perhaps I left that in the kernel config and it's preventing the custom DSDT from loading, even though the acerhdf module never gets loaded itself, nor is it in my rc.conf or anything else... If that was the cause of all this, I'm gonna be angry...
Anyway, this message does not appear with my latest kernel build because I took off the custom DSDT option, hoping to be able to use ACPI_CUSTOM_METHOD=y, which supposedly allows one to inject a custom AML method into a debug fs. It wouldn't have worked anyway, as it doesn't let you modify Device sections, but even with a dummy method insertion it didn't give my root modification privileges as it was supposed to...
Will try recompiling AGAIN with this CONFIG_ACERHDF=n (it's simply 'not set' in my current .config), while also enabling the custom kernel etc. If this doesn't work I have no idea what I'll do.
Anyway, thanks for your help and time:

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