From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jul 30 20:20:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.san.rr.com (smtp1.san.rr.com [24.25.195.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 126E337B406 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:20:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ralph@dt0b2n73.san.rr.com) Received: from dt0b2n73.san.rr.com (dt096n72.san.rr.com [24.94.9.114]) by smtp1.san.rr.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f6V3LmI14234; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:21:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ralph@localhost) by dt0b2n73.san.rr.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f6V3KkU66716; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:20:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ralph@webcom.com) From: "Ralph N. Smith" Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:20:46 -0700 To: "Ralph N. Smith" Cc: Josh Elsasser , Rob , "freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Sony Vaio PCG-FX290 Message-ID: <20010730202046.A66691@ralph.smithton.com> References: <3B5B9602.EB72FA42@home.com> <20010723010752.C16684-100000@jade.elsasser.org> <20010730141154.A66060@ralph.smithton.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010730141154.A66060@ralph.smithton.com>; from ralph@webcom.com on Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 02:11:54PM -0700 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 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 -- Ralph N. Smith ralph@webcom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message