Today I installed on the Vaio the 2.6.20-4-generic kernel from the feisty repos as suggested, but the bug is still here...
[ 481.428000] sonypi: probe of sonypi failed with error -16 [ 481.500000] sonypi: Sony Programmable I/O Controller Driver v1.26. [ 481.500000] sonypi: failed to request ioports -- feisty:dmesg flooded with sonypi messages https://launchpad.net/bugs/75349 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs