Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 14:45:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: VAIO PCG-C1X Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990707142404.25221A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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Thanks for your suggestions on how to deal with this notebook. As I recall I said I'd let you know what happened. I installed FreeBSD on it from a dos partition, having used a Panasonic cdrom recognized by Win98 to get the files on the hard drive. System Commander works fine as a boot manager and also worked to resize the dos partition; other people have reported that fips works as a resizer also. This computer has a "Ricoh RL5C475 CardBus Bridge", so pccards would only work if this is supported (presumably in 3.2-PAO, which I can't get to build). However the boot disks work in the USB floppy drive, although a "suspend-resume" sequence may be needed to bring the menu up after booting the second floppy. Although pccards will only work if the card bus is supported, the built-in modem works as delivered. I tried several times to do a working configuration file for X; xig claims the server (SVGA) doesn't work and would like to sell you theirs for $200. However, there's a working configuration file at http://www.solluma.org/~bookwyrm/pcg.c1x.html. This works fine. I did not use the patched server for NeoMagic video cards mentioned by the author, but it is available in binary somewhere on the redhat site. There are links to XF86Config files for many laptops at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop, including other VAIO PCG's, but not the 505TR that was the subject of a recent message. The VAIO PCG C1X is the "Picturebook" with an integrated camera. The camera of course works in '98 but no one seems to have even tried to make it work in linux or FreeBSD. Annelise To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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