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?)


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