So I've some hardware problems like the fist one is my sound is very very very low

Thanks enrique :wink: I have an HP DV7, same product description different manufacturer. This is an old PC but its hardware is still powerfull. The story of this machine Vaio serie Z, is very interesting. Indeed it,s very like a prototype... Sony first implement the thunderbold, in a public machine ...

You are asking a lot of questions. Yes you right, i'll try to contain myself and post outside, for other contents. So if i reformulate, live install it's like a live session with cd/usb bootable with persistent options, and frugal install it's the same but the system files are on a partition ...

I've two things annoying:

1: I can't set brightness I've to set it by /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness, I've seen that maybe pass arguments by the kernel make the job, but i don't now where are the boot/grub config files ?

2 : Sound is very very low, maybe in applet and/or mixer ?

Ho thanks for replies !! #linuxcbon radeon is the driver for HD6650, so you don't have to install anything. How i know i use intel iGPU or eGPU ? for what applications ? there is a workaround ? Radeon doesn't seem to be used a lot by the way. Running from USB with a save file seems to be a good idea ...

Hello, So like the work of that distro... I'm recycling my brother owned Sony Vaio high-end 2011 laptop (VPCZ21V9E for the motivate ones...). i7-2620M 8GB of RAM. Big issue is the first gen SSD (2x128GB RAID0 on the same pcb factory), making I/O errors.Replacement didn't worth it. SO i tried puppy ...