Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 21:42:40 -0600 (CST) From: shadows <shadows@cyberspace7.legions.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: chip@chocobo.cx, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install problems on Sony VAIO PCG-GR300 Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0203272141450.29248-100000@cyberspace7.legions.org> In-Reply-To: <1017287683.325.4.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>
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I have an ATI Mobility and it works great under XFree 3.3.6 I believe. I think thats the default version installed when you configure X server. Anyway it works great for my Dell Lattitude Thomas B. On 27 Mar 2002, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > 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 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. > > > I could only get X working on -stable, but it may work on -current now. > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > 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. > > The best luck I had was -CURRENT with the > > options PCI_ENABLE_IO_MODES > > and PnP BIOS disabled. > > > > > 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. > This may be better now as it was about a month ago I had these > problems. In any event, good luck. > > Joe > > > > > -- > > Chip Marshall <chip@chocobo.cx> 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- > -- > PGP Key: http://www.marucscom.com/pgp.asc > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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