On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 20:53, Reinhard Katzmann wrote: > Hi! > > When searching for BIOS-Updates or similar to solve > my rebooting problems with Linux I found a really great > HW page for the Sony-Vaio PCG-FX###. It has several > patches etc. and explains how to get suspend to work, > reboot (this is easy: append="reboot=bios" to lilo.conf > or drakboot), and USB mice to run (change some things in > the hotplug usb.rc config). > > I'm just starting to test these nice stuff :) > > http://www.gaugusch.at/vaio/
Thanks! As a fellow vaio-user: Have you been able to run XFree 4.2.1 on your machine? I own a FX705, with an ATI Rage Mobility M/P and a SXGA+ (1400x1050) screen. It runs fine with XFree 3.3.6, but when I try XFree 4.2.1 is gives me strangely distorted screens. If I start kdm with that set-up, I get vertical bars of a slightly different (blue) color, and if I run the 'test' option in XFdrake I do see the color bars, but they're not evenly spaced. Only the leftmost bar looks even remotely like it should, all the others show only a little green and a small blue area. There's also a small white rectangle in the upper left corner, that goes away once I specify the Option "SWCursor" for the ati driver. (though that does not give me a cursor...) I've also tried substituting the ati.2 drivers from the GATOS site, but those give me exactly the same results... Any ideas? thanks, Wouter
