Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 14:11:54 -0700 From: "Ralph N. Smith" <ralph@webcom.com> To: Josh Elsasser <josh@slack.nu> Cc: Rob <europax@home.com>, "freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sony Vaio PCG-FX290 Message-ID: <20010730141154.A66060@ralph.smithton.com> In-Reply-To: <20010723010752.C16684-100000@jade.elsasser.org>; from josh@slack.nu on Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 01:18:57AM -0400 References: <3B5B9602.EB72FA42@home.com> <20010723010752.C16684-100000@jade.elsasser.org>
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 01:18:57AM -0400, Josh Elsasser wrote: > 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. I have the FX220 and had the same problem. When I get home this evening (California) I will send the fix to the XF86Config file to get X working. Ralph -- Ralph N. Smith ralph@webcom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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