Date: 27 Mar 2002 22:54:43 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: chip@chocobo.cx Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install problems on Sony VAIO PCG-GR300 Message-ID: <1017287683.325.4.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20020328015520.GA69555@chocobo.cx> References: <20020327230511.GA64971@chocobo.cx> <1017278851.87411.9.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20020328015520.GA69555@chocobo.cx>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 20:55, Chip Marshall wrote: > On March 27, 2002, Joe Clarke sent me the following: > > You're not going to be happy with this, but I bought a GR-370, and ended > > up getting rid of it since I never did get things working very well. I > > was able to install 4.5-RELEASE, -stable, and -current on the laptop > > (4.4-REL does _not_ work). I was not able to get sound working at all. > > I could only get X working on -stable, but it may work on -current now. > > > > I first installed on the whole disk. Then, I blew everything away, and > > restored just the C: drive from the Sony disks. After that, I installed > > FreeBSD on the remaining partition. I used the Standard boot manager > > selection. The laptop booted, and was pretty fast, but I wanted sound > > for my DVDs. > > > > If you think the boot sector might be corrupt, try an fdisk /mbr from a > > boot diskette. You can also use sysinstall from the install floppy to > > set the XP partition to be active. > > Hmm... this is unhappy news. I did manage to get it to dual-boot WinXP > and FreeBSD 4.5-R. It turned out I didn't set an active partition (big > duh.) I'm compiling X 4.2.0 now. I tried the OpenSound drivers > briefly, but they didn't seem to be happy, so I plan to look into it > more later. The best luck I had was -CURRENT with the options PCI_ENABLE_IO_MODES and PnP BIOS disabled. > > What sort of X problems were you having? I thought the Rage Mobility > was pretty well supported. I had no problems under 4.5. Under -CURRENT, the laptop locked up. This may be better now as it was about a month ago I had these problems. In any event, good luck. Joe > > -- > Chip Marshall <chip@chocobo.cx> http://www.chocobo.cx/chip/ > GCM/CS d+(-) s+:++ a20>? C++ UB++++$ P+++$ L- E--- W++ N@ o K- w O M+ V-- > PS+ PE Y+ PGP+ t+@ 5 X R@ tv+() b++>+++ DI++++ D(-) G++ e>++ h->++ r++ y- -- PGP Key: http://www.marucscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEABECAAYFAjyilAMACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4cPlACeOkgsR8LbAqUPJCNV7Gth1RWs sd4AnjNGJ+Q5Ngfu5rM3LhAA5CggSXj9 =aQsT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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