Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:25:58 +0100 From: Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Sony Vaio VGN C1 Message-ID: <20070129012558.GA78373@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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Hello, i have installed, with a lot of problems FreeBSD-6.2, 32 bits, on a new Vaio VGN C1 laptop. Some of the problems are obviated, other remain. It may be of help to mention the solutions, so i post them here. Note the laptop is *very* well supported under Ubuntu edgy, so it is not at all Linux unfriendly. Out of the box FreeBSD doesn't recognize - the wifi card. I have found an experimental driver which happens to work, it is called 20070121-wpi-freebsd.tar.gz. A more recent version does *not* work (20070125). Strangely the connection to the access point is more stable with this driver than under Linux or Windows, but the speed is somewhat lower. - the wired card. I have found a binary driver on Marvell's site. It is called mykbsd60x86-8.12.2.3.tar and works. - the agp support does not detect the video card, as a consequence i don't have Xvideo support, nor hardware opengl. Mplayer suffers from that. Apparently the PCI ID of the card doesn't appear in agp code, but appears in drm code (0x27a28086 ). - i have found a binary driver for the snd_hda sound card, called sndkld_releng6_i386_lowlatency.tar.gz which works very well to play sound files, but cannot play music cdroms. And, cherry on the cake, acpi support is such that suspend to ram kills the machine and even worse halt -p doesn't halt the machine, and leaves it spending all the battery. On the other hand machine works nicely, no overheating, Intel speedstep with cpufreq.ko seems to work. Also acpi_sony allows to effectively control screen's brightness. video: Intel 945GM wireless: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945 wired: Marvell 88E8036 Fast Ethernet Controller audio: HDA Codec: Realtek (Unknown) -- Michel TALON
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