Linux Compatible

Sony VAIO VGN-FS 315M (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Fedora Core,Linux other and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (4) has been submitted on 2010-02-19 11:29:45 by Anonymous running Fedora Core:
Tested with Fedora 8, Ubuntu 7.1 and works great. Brigh ajustable, suspend/resume, hibernate, etc... Memory stick slot does NOT work and ms led shines all the time. Wifi works great too. In fedora 8, before install, pass this parameter to the kernel, if not, the installation freezes over: acpi=off, idedma=off , apc=off When is intalled, modify /boot/grub/grub.conf and delete this parameters and test if all works.

Sony Walkman NWZ (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Ubuntu Linux and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2009-08-15 09:55:45 by Anonymous running Ubuntu Linux:
All Sony Walkmans with model numbers beginning "NWZ" work with all USB-capable operating systems, as they just uses standard USB Mass Storage drivers. Due to a bug in HAL, it will not automatically mount in Ubuntu 8.04. It can be manually mounted. Due to a bug in Gnome, it will not be correctly mounted in Ubuntu 9.04. If you run the command "killall gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor", unmount the device, unplug it and plug it back in, it will correctly mount. Or you can use KDE. Older Walkmans that do not have model numbers beginning "NWZ" are not Linux-compatible.

HANDYCAM DCR-HC17E (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Ubuntu Linux and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2009-01-24 11:28:16 by Anonymous running Ubuntu Linux:
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Sony vaio VGN-FS215B (4)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Mandriva Linux and has a average rating of 4

The last rating (4) has been submitted on 2007-12-10 16:59:02 by Anonymous running Mandriva Linux:
Everything works, except power management and brightness setting

Sony DSC-W5 (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Gentoo Linux and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2007-03-29 10:19:27 by Anonymous running Gentoo Linux:
Works fine when used as a USB mass storage device.

DRU-120A (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Ubuntu Linux and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2007-01-29 12:46:44 by Anonymous running Ubuntu Linux:
My burner have a firmware ver. 1,51 and can burn DVD+R(W) and CD with k3b. Other can work with it.

Sony DSC-T3 (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Linux other and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2005-01-01 12:00:00 by Anonymous running Linux other:
Everything seems to work ok with gphoto2 (PTP mode) as this USB camera gets recognized as an F707V, but this doen't compromise performance. In gphoto2 2.1.6 there will be the addition to the database. Photos and films can be downloaded, and are automatically recognized with proper libraries as they are EXIF standard v2.2 and MPEG sequence v1 respectively. The USB Mass Storage also works fine and permits the deleting of fotos and directories. No other operations can be done, due to Sony's strict policy regarding file transfer. But that is the same even on "officialy" supported O.S.s'.

Sony MPD-AP20U (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Linux other and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2004-12-01 12:00:00 by Anonymous running Linux other:
Xandros 2 (Debian based) and Fedora FC3 -- drive is USB CDRW/DVD

Sony DCR-DVD201 (3)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Linux other and has a average rating of 3

The last rating (1) has been submitted on 2004-09-01 12:00:00 by Anonymous running Linux other:
This is a digital video camera from Sony that writes directly to miniature DVDs. The camera has a USB port and the manual suggests the video files should be downloadable to a PC (Windows) over this connection. I am using SuSE Linux 9.1 Professional. After plugging the camera into the computer the system recognized a new kind of USB media connected to the USB port, calling it device /dev/sr0. KDE put an icon on the desktop describing it as a CD-ROM. A mountpoint appeared in the /mnt directory called usb-storage-odd-SONY-StorageDevice-:0:0:0. However, this is as far as it goes. Attempting to use the shell to ls the contents of this directory produces an error "No medium found." Clicking on the CD icon produced by KDE opens an empty Konquerer window and then an error dialog "Could not enter folder /media/usb-storage-odd-SONY-StorageDevice:0:0:0" This happens even for root. It appears to me Sony is doing something odd with the USB protocol or they implement an unrecognizeable filesystem on the DVD, preventing linux from reading the camera. If anyone has suggestions I will try them and update this report if there is improvement. synthetoonz@die.spam.die.bellsouth.net (remove the die.spam.die)

Sony CRX145E/X1 (Firewire) CD-RW (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Linux other and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2004-07-01 12:00:00 by Anonymous running Linux other:
This drive works fine under Debian v3.0 unstable, Kernel v2.4.25. CDROMs and burned CDR/W's mount fine, and have sucessfully burned CDs at 10x under xcdroast and gtoaster. Requires kernel modules sr_mod, scsi_mod, sg, sbp2, ohci1394, ieee1394, ide-scsi, and ide-cd. For my laptop (Sony Vaio), must run script rescan-scsi-bus.sh (google for newest version) at bootup for drive to be properly detected.

Sony DSC-P93 (5)

Sony MVC-CD400 Digital Camera (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Linux other and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2004-06-01 12:00:00 by Anonymous running Linux other:
It works, but has some annoying quirks -- partly a result of the camera, and partly the result of Linux.

This camera is working with SuSE Linux 9.2. Note that since kernel 2.6.x has been in use, the USB performance has been awful. While USB communications and downloading pictures still works, some layer of software temporarily chokes (for 10 to 20 or so seconds) between each picture downloaded. This makes it take a loooong time to download a full disk of 100 pictures.

I discovered that discs finalized by the camera can't always be read perfectly by a regular CD drive in a computer (regardless of OS -- Windows or Linux). Every other disc has two or three pictures that can't be read entirely by the PC CD drive. If the disc with the apparent "corrupted" pictures is put back in the camera the files transfer intact over USB.

Sony DRX-510UL (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Linux other and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2004-05-01 12:00:00 by Anonymous running Linux other:
Able to read/write DVD's via USB2.0 port. However, for DVD writing, it is very slow (1 1/2 hour to write a disc). DVD playback is very choppy as well. DVD-RW writing is very unreliable on Memorex DVD-RW discs. Normal CD burning is pretty fast, though.

OS distribution I am using is Fedora Core 1.

Sony DSC-P12 (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Linux other and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2004-01-01 12:00:00 by Anonymous running Linux other:
Just mount it like this: mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/p12 Offcourse your parameters may be different. (Worked fine using slackware 9.1)

Sony MVC-CD250 Digital Camera (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Linux other and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2003-08-01 12:00:00 by Anonymous running Linux other:
Works great standalone of course, but USB connection also works with gphoto2 and gtkam, etc.

Sony DSC-U20 Cybershot (5)

Sony Vaio PCG-FX 502 (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Linux other and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2002-12-01 12:00:00 by Anonymous running Linux other:
Works, but issues with the power management. Check out this page for more information

Sony PCG-F370 Laptop (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Linux other and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2002-08-01 12:00:00 by Anonymous running Linux other:
Sony PCG-F370 running dual boot Win98 and SuSE 8.0 without any difficulty. Using a D-Link PCMCIA Network Card for internet, and haven't tried modem. I also use a USB mouse, although touchpad works fine if you set it up. There's a way to use both at once, but I haven't bothered setting that up.

Sony DSC-P5 Digital Camera (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Linux other and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2002-08-01 12:00:00 by Anonymous running Linux other:
Sony DSC-P5 digital camera.

It works after applying kernel patch from: here

I tested it and it works, and i have the camera's memory stick, mapped as an msdos drive on linux where i can copy/delete/move the images/movies inside the camera's memory stick.