Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 09:37:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@covalent.net> To: Denis DeLaRoca <denis@acacia.cts.ucla.edu> Cc: benh <benh@blues.jpj.net>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: PCG-SR7K (Was: Vaio PCG-SR5K AND X?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007030937170.3201-100000@matilde.sfo.covalent.net>
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On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Denis DeLaRoca wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, benh wrote: > > > I have a Vaio PCG-SR5k and I'm having trouble getting X to work on this > > guy at a resolution better than 300 x 200 or so. Anyone have any hints? > > The Vaio PCG-SR5K uses the Neomagic 256AV+ chipset; while the PCG-SR7K > features the Neomagic 256XL+ chipset. From the release notes of Xfree86 > 3.3.6 it appears that the these chipsets are not yet supported... I too > would be curious to see when these new chipsets will be supported. I tried > looking at the XFree86 4.0 notes but I couldn't find out if these new > chipsets are yet supported... the 256AV chipset is supported but from your > report it appears the 256AV+ does require extra support. > > Other than X not working, how do you like the SR5K Vaio? What chipset do > they use for sound? I suppose the modem is a win-moden, no? I cannot speak for the SR5K but the SR7K simply rock's; using the Xig (www.xig.com) server, with the recent patches, you can get both the LCD and the extenal display to work out of the box in all splendid colour and speed. No problems there. I could not get the latest XFree86 to work beyond 300x200 though. On 5-Current, the SONY ATA cdrom player works just fine, as does the USB (YE-Data) floppy disk drive. The build in Sony Memory stick (which appears as a disk on umass) works just fine two. I've not had a change to play with the modem, though it appears as a sio0, it might actually be a winmodem. Sound works perfectly fine too. As does APM, the pcmcia/pcard slot and the mice (both sony vaio usb mouse and the ps/2 glider pad). The 'shuttle wheel' remains invisble; it does not seem to be part of the keyboard, usb or any other common device. But there are about 6 pnp/pci card's spotted which appear as 'unknown'. Another thing which is nice that switching the modem sound through seems to work just fine so at least I can hear a dial tone. But as said the build in modem needs more investigation. The only think which is a bit of a pity is that the full hibernate seems still out of reach the moment you remove your FAT partition. Not sure but I think it wants to write there in a specific file; or if, on kernel level, you need to do the work (as I've not tried multi boot; zapping the whole disk was just too tempting). The bios is a bit of a bugger, the 12Gb are NOT seen; only the first 7.2Gig :-( :-( so you are forced to juggle umpteen partitions, esp. if you want multi boot. Dw To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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