From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Mar 27 17:55:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from hindenburg.eboai.org (hindenburg.eboai.org [206.183.134.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2976337B400 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 17:55:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by hindenburg.eboai.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 811A95E2E6; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 20:55:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 20:55:20 -0500 From: Chip Marshall To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install problems on Sony VAIO PCG-GR300 Message-ID: <20020328015520.GA69555@chocobo.cx> Reply-To: chip@chocobo.cx Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020327230511.GA64971@chocobo.cx> <1017278851.87411.9.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5vNYLRcllDrimb99" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1017278851.87411.9.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-URL: http://www.chocobo.cx/chip/ X-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 up 171 days, 19:21 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On March 27, 2002, Joe Clarke sent me the following: > You're not going to be happy with this, but I bought a GR-370, and ended > up getting rid of it since I never did get things working very well. I > was able to install 4.5-RELEASE, -stable, and -current on the laptop > (4.4-REL does _not_ work). I was not able to get sound working at all.= =20 > I could only get X working on -stable, but it may work on -current now. >=20 > I first installed on the whole disk. Then, I blew everything away, and > restored just the C: drive from the Sony disks. After that, I installed > FreeBSD on the remaining partition. I used the Standard boot manager > selection. The laptop booted, and was pretty fast, but I wanted sound > for my DVDs. >=20 > If you think the boot sector might be corrupt, try an fdisk /mbr from a > boot diskette. You can also use sysinstall from the install floppy to > set the XP partition to be active. Hmm... this is unhappy news. I did manage to get it to dual-boot WinXP and FreeBSD 4.5-R. It turned out I didn't set an active partition (big duh.) I'm compiling X 4.2.0 now. I tried the OpenSound drivers briefly, but they didn't seem to be happy, so I plan to look into it more later. What sort of X problems were you having? I thought the Rage Mobility was pretty well supported. --=20 Chip Marshall http://www.chocobo.cx/chip/ GCM/CS d+(-) s+:++ a20>? C++ UB++++$ P+++$ L- E--- W++ N@ o K- w O M+ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP+ t+@ 5 X R@ tv+() b++>+++ DI++++ D(-) G++ e>++ h->++ r++ y- --5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8ongI8vyTVl6qbdQRApUmAJ9aVwRu3hnIUbXRg8dbJARPg9y1BQCdF6Nj 0rDpm6B0da9tCS1eOltg5wA= =iOhb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5vNYLRcllDrimb99-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message