Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 10:02:03 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler <gram@cequrux.com> To: "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sound support broken in FreeBSD 4.0-S? Message-ID: <f09f0e57d815210a8b2f2fbff174174e@cequrux.com> References: <20000615091719.A8955@stat.Duke.EDU> <a53e346ecf1acf980742072cec2bd48e@cequrux.com> <20000615095956.B8955@stat.Duke.EDU> <dd88995a2992a7d673ecee8669fa9bfd@cequrux.com> <20000615103406.F8955@stat.Duke.EDU> <f2c6f41c165f59468deea25b1d36c8df@cequrux.com> <20000615121701.K8955@stat.Duke.EDU> <769d1e1210e546d75d4b0948ea27bff8@cequrux.com> <20000615123823.N8955@stat.Duke.EDU> <5faa0e91268f13ab18d1ae4b4130982b@cequrux.com> <20000615125101.P8955@stat.Duke.EDU>
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Sean O'Connell wrote: > > Graham Wheeler stated: > > Thanks! I did find a website with some patches to the 3.3.2 link kit for > > the NeoMagic, so I'll take a look at that too. > > I think that was actually patching NeoMagic support into the kernel. In > theory, this should be a much smaller task (if it is going to work :). As I mentioned on the weekend, I did finally get things to work, without needing to use the link kit. The config file generated by xf86config wouldn't work, nor would a backported XFree86-4.0 one work. But I got it to work by explicitly specifying chipset "trident", the amount of RAM, etc. I felt like a right idiot when I did, as I spent a lot of time on this when I first got the notebook and never succeeded at that stage. Somehow I must have just missed the right combination of settings. Anyway, I'm very pleased, as I now no longer have the graphics/text mode switching bug. The VIA sound driver is working well too. I was a bit hasty in saying that the psm patches work with the touchpad - they do work quite well, but after a while now the mouse cursor just freezes and stays that way (which is arguably better than leaping all over the screen and generating random button presses). Anyway, I'm now really close to a fully-working system - just in time too, as this weekend 3 of my 4 PCs at home decided it was time to rebel - NIC dying in one, power supply catching fire in another (lucky I was around to see it!) and CD-RW drive going flaky in the third. Almost enough to make me superstitious. > Good luck. It be nice to know how well the VIA sound works, too. Sounds good. As the driver comments say, there are the occasional clicks. But I get that under Windoze too, so it may just be a consequence of the hardware architecture. > ... The funny thing is that a fairly large part of my job has ended > up being spec'ing unix (er, FreeBSD) compatible laptops for people > (faculty, grad students, friends, and my own funzies). I am big fan > of lightweight ones (I own a Sony 505TR :). Can't find Sony laptops in this country (South Africa). Everyone I know who has a VAIO made the purchase on an overseas trip. regards gram -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cequrux.com Director, Research and Development WWW: http://www.cequrux.com CEQURUX Technologies Phone: +27(21)423-6065 Firewalls/VPN Specialists Fax: +27(21)424-3656 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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