Date: 02 May 2001 22:52:15 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Tweaking a laptop installation Message-ID: <m1pudrfmgg.fsf@zaphod.realtime.co.uk>
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Hi all, My Sony Vaio Z600-HEK has arrived. Windows 2000 that was installed seemed to be faulty. A quick shake, and it fell right off :) Anyways, FreeBSD installed quite smoothly, and I have the box at the point where I can do work with it. I now want to tweak it so that I can have fun with it. To this end, I need to ask a couple of questions (in no particular order of importance :)) 1. The card installed according to Windows was an ATI rage mobility. I chose the ATI Mach 3D RAGE II in xf86cfg because that was the closest thing that I could find. XFree86 4.0.3 works but I was wondering if there was a better choice ? 2. The touchpad seems sluggish. Is there any way to speed this up ? 3. Sound. The bane of my life on Laptops. I never did get the sound on my pcg505 working under Linux or FreeBSD. Does anyone know if the sound card in the Z600-HEK works under FreeBSD? It is a Yamaha of some sort. If so, what should I include in my kernel to activate it ? 4. Shutting down and powering off... What do I have to do to make shutdown -p turn off the power? I've included the apm line that was in GENERIC in my own kernel, but it doesn't work. When I shut down I get the message saying that the system has been shut down. Hit any key to reboot. 5. Suspend to disk - There was no partition on the machine for this before I whacked Windows. Is there any way to do this on this machine? 6. Memory stick slot - can this be made to work? Please say yes :) This would make my life soooo much more convinient. 7. Jog dial - This is a looooong shot, but can this be configured to act as a mouse wheel or is it just a plastic widget on the side of my machine that will never be used :) Thanks in advance for any tips / solutions to any of this :) -- - Wayne Pascoe E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 Mobile: +44 (0) 788 431 1675 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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