Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:20:46 -0700 From: "Ralph N. Smith" <ralph@webcom.com> To: "Ralph N. Smith" <ralph@webcom.com> Cc: Josh Elsasser <josh@slack.nu>, Rob <europax@home.com>, "freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sony Vaio PCG-FX290 Message-ID: <20010730202046.A66691@ralph.smithton.com> In-Reply-To: <20010730141154.A66060@ralph.smithton.com>; from ralph@webcom.com on Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 02:11:54PM -0700 References: <3B5B9602.EB72FA42@home.com> <20010723010752.C16684-100000@jade.elsasser.org> <20010730141154.A66060@ralph.smithton.com>
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 02:11:54PM -0700, Ralph N. Smith wrote:
> 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.
This works for XFree86 4.1.0_4 from the ports.
The problem was that the X server hung when executing the DDC module
which probes the VESA Display Data Channel. Inserting Option "NoDDC"
into the i810 Device section turned off this probe, and X started right
up. The appropriate snippet from XF86Config is:
Section "Device"
Identifier "i810"
Driver "i810"
VideoRam 32768
Option "NoDDC"
#VideoRam 4096
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection
I am currently running this at 1024x768, 24 bits.
I also have agp_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf.
Ralph
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