Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 21:15:46 -0500 From: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sony VAIO, winmodems, etc. (was Re: ftpd bug) Message-ID: <20001004211546.B31130@peorth.iteration.net> In-Reply-To: <200010042116.OAA02286@usr06.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 09:16:58PM %2B0000 References: <20001004114506.A24813@peorth.iteration.net> <200010042116.OAA02286@usr06.primenet.com>
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On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 09:16:58PM +0000, Terry Lambert scribbled: | > On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 09:48:26PM +0000, Terry Lambert scribbled: | > | I wish my Vaio's winmodem worked on FreeBSD. Same for the | > | sound card, and don't get me started on DVD playback support. | > | > Winmodem can't be helped. | Yes it can; I've sent a copy of "Sourcer" and the drivers to a | German friend of mine to document, if it isn't too big a task. And I will wait....while I use my wavelan card :) | > But sound and DVD both work on my VAIO z505js | > Sound was done by "device pcm," and DVD just "worked." | I'll try the sound. I'm pretty sure that I will only be able | to use the DVD as a CDROM drive under BSD, and not be able to | play DVDs. I can read DVD data. The DVD playing *can* be done via DeCSS, but I ..um...am afraid of lawsuits, etc. | > Many people have had trouble installing drivers in WinXX. | Not me. But I've done protected mode work on both Windows 9x | and on NT, so I'm probably an exception, being clued and all | that... ;-). For example, some newer ATI video cards do not have drivers in Win2k. | > Lucent seems to have released a winmodem driver for linux. | There is also the "linmodem" stuff, but neither supports the | Rockwell HCF 56K Data Fax RTAD PCI Modem. Modems? bah! :) | > | If you buy a new machine with an old OS, it's supported by | > | Microsoft for 90 days from date of purchse, so long as the | > | vendor has a contract with Microsoft. | > | > If you buy a new machine from Telenet with FreeBSD or BSD/OS, | > I think it would be supported... | > But, are you buying FreeBSD when you do an FTP install? | painful XFree86 1024x768; I can supply a config file, if | someone decides they need one. The chipset is not | quite supported, so much of the acceleration is | currently disabled; big deal, the thing is a 750MHz | Pentium III on a laptop. | config? Sound not currently working -current 08092000 has never crashed on me, and pcm works well. | config? APM not currently working Mine works well, fxp0/usb resumes and comes back up. Suspend-to-disk suspend-to-memory both work. APM sometimes doesn't report the right battery time. However, the battery percentage is always correct | broken Rockwell HCF Data Fax RTAD PCI Modem (winmodem) | broken Fn-key keyboard based sound, brightness, monitor, | sleep, and suspend mode controls That's a windows driver thing, neither does the JogDial work. | config? Windows and menu keys on keyboard Works as meta keys for me in X. | config? Touchpad single/double click is overly sensitive You can change that via a moused undocumented option. | config? No third button (can touchpad be discriminated?) I just set my 3-button emulation to have a 500ms delay. | untried Firewire (no FreeBSD video apps) | untried IR (no FreeBSD stuff for IR printers) | untried USB (no USB keyboard arrived via UPS, yet) USB mouse/keyboard/printer works. The memory stick slot works as a umass0->da0 device and controllable via camcontrol. | Overall, I'm pretty happy with the thing for doing work, and, of | course, if I really need to watch a DVD, or use the modem, or the | other features broken in FreeBSD, I can boot Windows and tolerate | it long enough to use the Windows-only stuff. Same here. | The thing is a hell of a lot faster than the desktop I used at | Whistle; I've already got 2.8M lines of code in my CVS repository | on the thing, so it's an OK CVS server, too. | Has anyone used the optional R/W CDROM to burn a CD on one of | these things yet? Network backups are a pain. Btw, the PCMCIA CDROM/CDRW/DVD-ROM can all boot from CD's. There is an option in the BIOS (push ctrl-f2 during boot) to do that. Even USB floppy boots FreeBSD thanks to JHB. -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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