Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 10:57:45 -0800 (PST) From: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Sony VAIO Z505JE & FreeBSD Message-ID: <200011131857.eADIvjJ40302@medusa.kfu.com>
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I just bought a Vaio 505 and thought I would share my experiences in getting it working so that the next time someone searches the archives to see if it will work or not (like I did), they can see this. :-) I installed 4.1.1-RELEASE on it. The installation was fairly straightforward. It was a little tricky figuring out pccard at that stage, so I just used the built-in fxp0 to get the box up and running. The pccard trouble turned out to be that aparently polling (irq pcic0 0) the slot doesn't work. It does on my old Dell, so I'm unclear on what the problem might be. Setting the slot to irq 11 instead appears to work, and irq 3 is still free for the card. Having done that, my wi card took over and worked just fine. The sound is a Yamaha DS-1E, which works until you suspend the machine. It appears that 4.2-RELEASE will have some stuff in that driver that may fix the problem. I am sup'ping the release candidate at the moment. XFree86 4.0.1 doesn't recognize the video by itself. I found I had to goose it a little. Adding "Chipset neo2200" and 'option "sw_cursor"' made X come up without difficulty. I haven't tried an external monitor. 'apm -d 0' doesn't work on this laptop, unfortunately, but closing the lid turns off the backlight and doesn't suspend the machine, so that is an adequate fix. The touchpad is PS/2, of course. One tricky part is that it is an ALPS Glide- point, which means that if you want the tap gestures to work, you need to specify moused_type="glidepoint" in your rc.conf. This will generate a warning message from moused when you start it, but using "ps/2" makes the tap gestures not work. The man page suggests remapping button 4 to 1 might be another workaround. I haven't tried that. Of course X just sees /dev/sysmouse and is happy as a clam. The USB floppy works just fine. You need to add some extra stuff to usbd.conf to get it to work automatically: device "Y-E DATA FlashBuster-U" vendor 0x057b product 0x0000 release 0x0304 attach "/sbin/camcontrol rescan bus 0" The floppy shows up as /dev/da0 when it's plugged in. Be sure and turn off "plug-n-play os" in the BIOS to get the USB controller to show up. When the kernel is properly decked out, there are 3 unknown PCI devices detected: 8039104d iLINK (firewire) controller 808a104d Sony (Memory stick controller?) 244314f1 Conexant (modem?) Clearly the modem is a winmodem and thus probably will never work. All of my media devices use CF cards, so I don't really care about the stupid memory stick thing. Likewise, I don't have any firewire devices at the moment. APM appears to work reasonably. It reports charging state and battery remaining both in time and percentages. It suspends and resumes nicely, although the Fn+F12 suspend to disk doesn't work. I haven't investigated why this might be, but suspect that I would need to make a suspend-to-disk partition for it to work under FreeBSD. I bet I will find a copy of phdisk.exe on the Windows side somewhere. The only mystery remaining is the jog dial. It would have been the easiest thing in the world for them to simply make this a USB "mouse wheel" (along with making the trackpad USB instead of PS/2 -- saving us all an IRQ in the process), but they didn't. I have had a bias against Sony products for a number of years. This is because every Sony product since 1992 that I bought had defects both in design and manufacturing that made them garbage. This machine has already somewhat improved my opinion of Sony, and may in the end turn it around completely. It's still early, but so far I am quite happy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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