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Sony Electronics is a company that makes a wide variety of consumer electronic products. On Ask Ubuntu, Sony is generally used when referring to the vaio computer line. When used for this purpose, use the "vaio" tag instead.

Sony Electronics is a company that makes a wide variety of consumer electronic products. On Ask Ubuntu, Sony is generally used when referring to the vaio computer line. When used for this purpose, use the tag instead.

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Sony Noise-Cancelling Headphones (WH-1000XM2/3) and bluetooth initial autoconnect

So I have Ubuntu 18.04 installed on both my personal and work laptops and I am experiencing the same issue on both of them. I have Sony WH-1000XM3 noise-canceling headphones and they are paired, everything is fine and working, the only problem is…
elpiel
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Best Professional Video editor for Linux equivalent to Sony Vegas Pro?

I have recently moved onto Linux especially Ubuntu, and I'm a video freak, I love editing videos for my youtube channel, Vimeo, Plex, etc and since I'm new to this Open Source World, I cannot decide which one should I choose? I had done a search on…
Kanthala Raghu
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Gradle or Android Studio freezes Ubuntu

I've got a problem with my Android Studio/Gradle regularly freezing my entire system. What happens? I work on my Android Studio and at first, everything is ok. For approx 5 - 10 builds/deploys everything is fine but then I click the "Run 'app'"…
Miroslav
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Sony VAIO with Insyde H2O EFI bios will not boot into GRUB EFI

I bought a new Sony Vaio S series laptop. It uses Insyde H2O BIOS EFI, and trying to install Linux on it is driving me crazy. root@kubuntu:~# parted /dev/sda print Model: ATA Hitachi HTS72756 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 640GB Sector size…
Rohan Dhruva
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Correct drivers for AMD Radeon™ HD 7650M

So, I have a Sony Vaio sve15118fg running Ubuntu 12.10 which comes with an AMD Radeon™ HD 7650M graphics chip. This was all working fine until some updates (note sure what they were) came through, after installing my laptop now no longer boots…
Hailwood
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sony wh-1000xm4 configure high quality mic and audio output with bluetooth ubuntu 20.04

I've just bought a Sony wh-1000xm4. I want to use audio output and microphone (headset) with the best possible audio quality for work calls (zoom, google meet, etc). The device connected automatically in the first start, and I can hear really good…
eduardosufan
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Problems with graphics of Sony Vaio Z

I have problem with my Sony Vaio Z VPCZ1. It has physical selector of GPUs which Linux kernel does not detect. So after GRUB I see black display (I tried different distributions of Ubuntu and other Linux OS). I read in Ubuntu 10.10 was solve same…
Denys Pasishnyi
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Trouble playing sound from sony WH-1000XM4 on ubuntu 22.04

I'm having trouble using my wh-1000xm4s with ubuntu. It connects fine, but it won't show up in PulseAudio. The strange thing is that it worked previously, but after I disconnected it doesn't work any longer. Any ideas on how to get it working again?
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Bluetooth headphones media keys not working

I'm using the Sony WH-1000XM3 on Ubuntu 20.04. The headphones support media controls through touch gestures. Volume up/down works fine, but pause/play and next/previous track does nothing. Neither in Spotify nor on YouTube. I tried to set Settings >…
Rak
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How can light sensor be enabled for control brightness and keyboard back-light automatically?

I have A Sony VAIO laptop F-series () Nvidia and it has light sensor. When I was using Windows, this light sensor controlled the brightness and the keyboard backlight automatically due to the surroundings state. But when using Ubuntu 12.04, it only…
amrro
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ffmpeg/avconv - the -psp option no longer works on Sony Walkman

Since the changeover from ffmpeg to avconv, the -psp option does not seem to render video correctly for Sony Walkman - "file format not supported", it was perfect before. ffmpeg -i video.avi -f psp -s 320x240 -vb 500k -ac 2 -ab 128k video.mp4 Even…
Drac Noc
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Ubuntu doesn't see my phone (Sony Xperia Tipo)

When I connect my phone Xperia Tipo to my Ubuntu 12.04, the USB icon does not appear in a launcher. lsusb gives me following results: Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation…
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Changing brightness on a Sony Vaio laptop

I just installed Ubuntu 10.10 on a Sony Vaio laptop. The brightness functions keys don't change the brightness. When I try to change the brightness I can see the levels going up and down in the notification bubble but it doesn't actually change the…
User
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Can't reboot netbook with any of the reboot parameters

I have a Sony VPCW218AG netbook that I've dual-booted with Ubuntu 10.10. Unlike the preinstalled Windows 7, Ubuntu will not reboot on this computer. Rebooting from Gnome, using the reboot command and SysRq+REISUB all don't work; they end hanging…
Delan Azabani
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Ubuntu 20.04, Bluetooth True wireless headphones not working (work in previous version) Sony WF-1000XM3

First of all, sorry for my poor English. I upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04, clean installation, and my bluetooth headphones stop working/connecting. I put them in pairing mode, Ubuntu recognized them. if I click on connect, Ubuntu says that it is…
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