Ubuntu 10.04.1 installation problems on Sony Vaio F series

It sounds like these are both driver problems. To fix the resolution problem, see if you can get the proprietary drivers for your graphics card in System > Administration > Hardware Drivers.

I don't know about the touchpad problem though, sorry.

I tried installing the proprietary drivers and when I restarted the computer, I had to start it in recovery mode and remove the driver because nothing was displaying correctly.

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display

You may want to try the following boot options in various orders:

irqpoll
and/or
i8024.reset
and/or
i8024.nomux=1

Thanks

Hi and welcome to Ubuntu

It seem like you problems are all about hardwares
did you tried the Hardware Drivers?

you can find it under System --> Administrator --> Hardware Drivers

i hope this will help yu

Hi and welcome to Ubuntu

It seem like you problems are all about hardwares
did you tried the Hardware Drivers?

you can find it under System --> Administrator --> Hardware Drivers

i hope this will help you

The results of sudo lshw -C display

-----------------------
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: nVidia Corporation
       vendor: nVidia Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a2
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
       resources: irq:16 memory:e2000000-e2ffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff(prefetchable) memory:e0000000-e1ffffff(prefetchable) ioport:d000(size=128) memory:e3000000-e307ffff(prefetchable)
--------------------------

I have never changed boot options. Do I just add the commands to the "beginning" of the list of commands at the GNU GRUB screen at start-up?

boot to the OS and add them. Use this guide:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-nettool/+question/118048

Thank you, but nothing in the guide worked. I tried all the combinations given for the grub file. My output for the dmesg was different though. The file ended after

[ 66.524940] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present

I also tried

sudo modprobe -r psmouse; sleep 5; sudo modprobe psmouse

and nothing happened.

do the boot options help though? There is my reply on there stating how to apply boot options

I tried all the boot options, but none of them helped.

I also have a Vaio F(12) series laptop.

In order to get the touchpad to be recognized at all, add 'pci.nopnp' to the boot options. This should cause the mouse to be recognized as a PS/2 mouse, allowing you to use it to point click and scroll vertically. Multitouch will not yet work.
The problem with multitouch on the touchpad has to do with the ALPS drivers, which as far as I know, don't support your touchpad yet.

This page:
http://code.google.com/p/vaio-f11-linux/
Contains a lot of issues and solutions for the F11 series. Including a solution for the graphics problems you are running into.
Some of the solutions also work for the F12 series laptops. I hope they help solve your problem.

I also have a Vaio F(12) series laptop.

In order to get the touchpad to be recognized at all, add 'i8042.nopnp' to the boot options. This should cause the mouse to be recognized as a PS/2 mouse, allowing you to use it to point click and scroll vertically. Multitouch will not yet work.
The problem with multitouch on the touchpad has to do with the ALPS drivers, which as far as I know, don't support your touchpad yet.

This page:
http://code.google.com/p/vaio-f11-linux/
Contains a lot of issues and solutions for the F11 series. Including a solution for the graphics problems you are running into.
Some of the solutions also work for the F12 series laptops. I hope they help solve your problem.

Thank you Maurice! Both solutions worked!

I love when that happens :)

Glad you got the gold.