Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 22:46:28 -0500 From: "Eric J. Feldhusen" <efeldhusen@chartermi.net> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Song VAIO w/ FBSD Message-ID: <a05210601bab15ee75200@[192.168.0.100]>
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>On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 20:07, Eric J.Feldhusen wrote: > > Just curious, has anyone tried a NV170? With any of the 4.x or 5.0? > >I'm trying to install 5.0 on a NV105, not sure if that's similar to the >NV170. > >It's not going so well at the moment, OS is installed and boots. But my >custom kernel won't bring up the fxp interface even though it works with >the Generic config and I can't get the touchpad to work at all ATM. I >saw somewhere that it should work in current. Oh, and I get a whole >bunch of ACPI errors. > >For some reason I had to install from CD because with floppies it just >dies with a fatal trap 9, That's both the 4.8 and the 5.0 floppies, also >had no luck with the 4.7 CD. Sounds like my experience with freebsd/redhat/mandrake on my nv170. So far, the only operating system I can get running is WinXP. But I'm still trying with freebsd and if I can't get that to work, I'll try the latest redhat/mandrake/gentoo releases.
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