From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Jul 22 22:18:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from jade.elsasser.org (JADE.ELSASSER.ORG [199.232.92.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99AE737B403 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 22:18:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from josh@slack.nu) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jade.elsasser.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6N5Ivg56459; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 01:18:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from josh@slack.nu) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 01:18:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Josh Elsasser X-X-Sender: To: Rob Cc: "freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Sony Vaio PCG-FX290 In-Reply-To: <3B5B9602.EB72FA42@home.com> Message-ID: <20010723010752.C16684-100000@jade.elsasser.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have a very similar laptop, an FX220, that I've recently installed FreeBSD on. I was having some trouble with the ethernet with 4.3-RELEASE, but updating to the latest 4.3-STABLE sources and rebuilding solved that. Apparently the fxp driver was updated sometime after 4.3-RELEASE. As for XFree86, that's something I haven't gotten working yet, at least in FreeBSD. I also have linux on the vaio, and XFree86 4.1 works just fine. When I try to start X in FreeBSD, the display just goes blank and I have to ssh in and kill -9 the X server. I suspect that earlier versions of XFree86 4 will work, but I haven't tried yet. On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Rob wrote: > Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 20:12:02 -0700 > From: Rob > To: "freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG" > Subject: Sony Vaio PCG-FX290 > > Hi all, > > I am the unexcited owner of a new FX290. I installed 4.2 release, and > found that I can't get networking going. > It has an EtherExpress Pro100 VE. The kernal recognizes the card, but I > see in dmesg "cant access shared memory" for the fxp listing. I will > try to get the DMESG on floppy and transfer it over to Windoze if > needed. > > I am also wondering about video. Do the latest XFree 4.0 support the > intel 815 video? > > In worst case, I guess I can make this a linux laptop. Thanks, Rob > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message