Ubuntu Natty Beta on Sony Vaio CS17

I am posting some screenshots of natty beta running on my sony vaio CS 17.

What works: Unity looks great, works after installing nvidia additional drivers.
                       Fn keys for volume work out of the box.

 Hiccups:     Brightness keys do not work, will try to tweak with nvclock.
                    Media keys do not work, pressing media keys brings up right
                    click menu.
                    Touchpad randomly stops responding and makes the box
                    unusable needing reboot.

will post in detail after i use it for a while...
                    

Ubuntu lucid lynx 10.4 on Vaio CS17G

Its nearly a week since the release of ubuntu lucid lynx or ubuntu 10.4. I upgraded when it was still beta and now i have fully updated lynx. On my vaio cs17g, i was hoping it will fix few specific glitches with this laptop. see my previous blog for this.
So does anything change? Not really
Although there are a lot of improvements over ubuntu 9.10 like,

• Faster boot time: some guys claim to have a boot time of less than 10 secs, i get around 15 secs till Login screen.
• Improved appearances: in the sense, better default themes, i like dust sand, ambience
• Introduction of "me menu" which i feel is a very nice idea.

In terms of addressing my specific problems pertaining to this laptop, no much change.

• suspend does not work: it suspends well but no keyboard on wake up
• Inbuilt microphone does not work
• Media keys do not work

I managed to get the brightness key working after tweaking and getting them to work with nvclock.

Apart from these glitches i feel it is a great improvement over the previous release.