Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 03:55:00 -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: <20001005035500.A32697@peorth.iteration.net> In-Reply-To: <200010050539.WAA18430@usr08.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 05:39:42AM %2B0000 References: <20001004211546.B31130@peorth.iteration.net> <200010050539.WAA18430@usr08.primenet.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 05:39:42AM +0000, Terry Lambert scribbled: | > | > 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 :) | | The encryption capable base station and cards cost way more, | and still require a system between the base station and the | net. The Apple one will do dial on demand and NAT (without | firewall), asuming you have a Winodws machine to configure it. Nah, no windows at home... But I do have an Apple G4-500 8-) I do not have an Airport station though. I live close enough to school that I can access the school LAN through wavelan. | > I can read DVD data. The DVD playing *can* be done via DeCSS, | > but I ..um...am afraid of lawsuits, etc. | As I said: to get the NeoMagic chip in the Sony working, you | have to disable almost all acceleration, which makes the DeCSS | approach pretty useless. XFree-Current runs on NeoMagic with full support stablely. I have also bought a copy of AccelX, which supports the new NeoMagic chipsets fully. However, I had to give that up because xfstt has bad Chinese TTF support. (AccelX can only use xfstt to render TTF, it seems.) | > | > 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. | You can use the generic drivers for that. But you know, just | as there are no Win2K drivers for things that have sat on | shelves or in warehoses too long, there are no FreeBSD drivers, | either. There are only a few cards where the 3D acceleration | works under FreeBSD, and there's very little software that can Console? or X? XFree86-4.*-Current works quite well for me. I do not really see a need for me to view ASCII art with 2D/3D acceleration in console though. :) | take advantage of it. | > | > 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! :) | I can tell from your surname capitalization that you are from | a country that pays mesage units for local calls. In the U.S., Yes, that is correct. | we pay a flat rate for local phone service, and call our ISP | without paying connect time charges to the phone company. But | I can see where modems might not be the most popular thing in | Japan. Actually, I am from Taiwan, and I live in the United States. My name is Chinese/Taiwanese, and I am Chinese/Taiwanese. :) | > | 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 | Good news; I may spend some time hacking this on my machine. Nah, Warner made it really easy. :) | > | broken Fn-key keyboard based sound, brightness, monitor, | > | sleep, and suspend mode controls | > That's a windows driver thing, neither does the JogDial work. | The JogDial is a FreeBSD driver issue; I'd be happy if I could make | it scroll my Netscape window when surfing. By "windows driver thing," I meant that they only have a driver for windows. I could not even figure out how the JogDial talks to the system. Is it just a serial port? | The "Windows driver thing" for brightness, etc., shows a copyright | by Phoenix; it's part of the BIOS. Accessing that is supposed to | be a fault-to-BIOS thing, like the external system management stuff | first introduced by Cyrix (which also doesn't work on FreeBSD). | > | config? Touchpad single/double click is overly sensitive | > You can change that via a moused undocumented option. | More data, please? I do not recall how I did it when I used it to setup a bad mouse a couple years ago, but it is in the moused source. | > | config? No third button (can touchpad be discriminated?) | > I just set my 3-button emulation to have a 500ms delay. | | On many laptops, the touchpad "button" generates real seperate | events that happen to be mapped into button1. If FreeBSD were | to distinguish these,button1 could be the touchpad "tap", | button2 the left button, and button3 the right button. Or even | uses the JogDial "click". The pojnt is, it's nearly impossible | to scroll windows in X and do other useful things without either | remapping the system to be different from all others defaults, | remapping all your systems for crippled mice. Emacs > *, :P | > | 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. | Also good news. | > The memory stick slot works as a umass0->da0 device and controllable | > via camcontrol. | Have a PCG-XG; different animal. 8-). | > | 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. | This thing has an optional internal one (PCGA-CDRWX1/A, CD-RW | Drive); no need to use an extrernal, even if I trusted it. 8-). | My next big adventure is going to be the docking station, | particularly the PCMCIA, and it's going to not support the | additional audio and the fiber optic port, I'm pretty sure. Fiber optic port in a laptop? heh. -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20001005035500.A32697>