From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Mar 27 19:55: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from gyros.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66DEA37B419 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 19:54:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from gyros.marcuscom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gyros.marcuscom.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2S3shAH000443; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 22:54:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: (from marcus@localhost) by gyros.marcuscom.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g2S3shCG000442; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 22:54:43 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: gyros.marcuscom.com: marcus set sender to marcus@marcuscom.com using -f Subject: Re: Install problems on Sony VAIO PCG-GR300 From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: chip@chocobo.cx Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020328015520.GA69555@chocobo.cx> References: <20020327230511.GA64971@chocobo.cx> <1017278851.87411.9.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20020328015520.GA69555@chocobo.cx> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-5VTJDqd/Ql+2sPfzozIL" X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 Date: 27 Mar 2002 22:54:43 -0500 Message-Id: <1017287683.325.4.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 --=-5VTJDqd/Ql+2sPfzozIL Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 20:55, Chip Marshall wrote: > 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 ende= d > > 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 installe= d > > 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. >=20 > 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. The best luck I had was -CURRENT with the=20 options PCI_ENABLE_IO_MODES and PnP BIOS disabled. >=20 > What sort of X problems were you having? I thought the Rage Mobility > was pretty well supported. I had no problems under 4.5. Under -CURRENT, the laptop locked up.=20 This may be better now as it was about a month ago I had these problems. In any event, good luck. Joe >=20 > --=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- --=20 PGP Key: http://www.marucscom.com/pgp.asc --=-5VTJDqd/Ql+2sPfzozIL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEABECAAYFAjyilAMACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4cPlACeOkgsR8LbAqUPJCNV7Gth1RWs sd4AnjNGJ+Q5Ngfu5rM3LhAA5CggSXj9 =aQsT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-5VTJDqd/Ql+2sPfzozIL-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message