Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 01:39:18 +0900 (JST) From: Akira Funahashi <funa@funa.org> To: raj@cisco.com Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Sony SRX77 (SRX7)? Message-ID: <20020303.013918.41708404.funa@funa.org> In-Reply-To: <15488.33395.293611.781792@kitab.cisco.com> References: <15488.33395.293611.781792@kitab.cisco.com>
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Hi,
Richard Johnson <raj@cisco.com> wrote:
> Has anyone run FreeBSD on the Sony SRX77 (called the SRX7 outside the
> US)? I searched the net and can only find hints of Linux and X11
> possibly on the SRX7, but all references are in Japanese. Apparently
> the SRX7 and the SRX77 are the same basic machine.
I've wrote a web page about installing FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE on SRX7,
but sorry, I've wrote it in Japanese. Maybe you can find it by
googling with "SRX7 FreeBSD".
> Any info. would be greatly appreciated.
OK. Here is an information.
You can install FreeBSD by USB floppy disk drive. But it really takes a
long time to read the USB floppy, so I prefer you to use CDROM drive.
Before the kernel boot, you must set
set hw.pcic.irq=0
set hw.pcic.intr_path=1
whether you use a PCCARD stuff or not.
After the installer comes up, you can use fxp0 (built-in ethernet) or
any other PCMCIA ethernet cards (such as ep0, ed0).
XFree86-4.1.0 works perfectly on SRX7. To get X working, you must
load "agp.ko" which is an AGP kernel module.
This can be done automatically on boot by adding this line to
/boot/loader.conf.
agp_load="YES"
Other devices are described in the following table.
I've tested on 4.4-RELEASE and 5-current (cvsup'ed Jan 13th 2002).
4.4-RELEASE 5-current
XFree86-4.1.0 OK OK
fxp0 OK OK
PCCARD OK OK *1
USB OK OK
Sound OK OK
Touchpad(psm0) OK OK *2
MemoryStick NG OK
Jogdial OK *3 OK *3
Remaining Battery OK *4 OK *4
suspend/resume NG NG
802.11b(wi0) NG NG
Bluetooth NG NG
IEEE 1394 ? ?
Winmodem ? ?
*1: PCCARD works on -current when using OLDCARD.
*2: Touchpad(psm0) won't work on -current while ACPI is enabled.
*3: Jogdial works if you apply the "spic & moused patch".
You can get the patch from
http://csociety.org/~will/jogdial-current-2.diff
http://csociety.org/~will/jogdial-stable-2.diff
*4: You can get the remaining battery time by using
"vaiobat" command included in /usr/ports/graphics/picturebook.
On -current, you can get a detailed battery information from ACPI.
Unfortunately, suspend/resume won't work on SRX7 now.
ACPI support is required for recent laptops.
But it is worth trying recent -current.
I've not tested recent -current yet which is based on ACPI CA 20020214.
You can get kernel config file, loader.conf and XF86Config from
http://www.funa.org/~funa/diary/2002/01/13/FUNASOUL
http://www.funa.org/~funa/diary/2002/01/13/loader.conf
http://www.funa.org/~funa/diary/2002/01/13/XF86Config
respectively. Please modify "FontPath" in XF86Config because
my FontPath is quite different from general.
Hope this helps.
--
Akira Funahashi/[funa@funa.org]
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