Sony Vaio C1 success stories?
Forum: Laptops
Topic: Sony Vaio C1 success stories?
started by: Andreas
Posted by Andreas on Mar. 19 2007,16:07
I did some sucessful installations of DSL on my Toshiba Libretto 100 and Portege 3020. No I am waiting for my new toy, a Sony Vaio C1VE 
I´ve been searching the board up and down but didn´t find anyone who reported a Vaio C1 running DSL. Only questions on some video issues
I like DSL very much and would have it on my Vaio too.
Anyone who has managed to get this gadget running DSL with full video solution (1048x480), camera and support for Crusoe cpu?
Andreas
Posted by roberts on Mar. 19 2007,20:47
I have frugal install of DSL working on Sony C1VPK Picture book at 1024x480 with cursoe processor. I haven't had time to mess with the builtin camera.The Xfree86.unc that I put together has the config file for this machine's non-standard resolution.
Posted by Andreas on April 04 2007,04:31
AFAIK *.unc could only be installed on a frugal system.For several reasons I´d like to keep my Debian type installation.
Is there a chance to do this? Thanks.
Andreas
Posted by curaga on April 04 2007,09:58
Sorry.. You'll just have to use .dsl's, .tar.gz's and .uci's.. Nearly all extensions are also available as those...
Posted by Andreas on April 04 2007,12:43
| Quote (curaga @ April 04 2007,11:58) |
| Nearly all extensions are also available as those... |
I´d like to know if this is also the case with the XFree86.dsl extension. I don´t like to do patching on kernel or drivers.
Andreas
Posted by roberts on April 04 2007,15:42
Should be trivial to convert any unc to dsl, mount it, tar it, done.# mount XFree86.unc /mnt/test -o ro,loop=/dev/cloop
# cd /mnt/test
# tar -zcvf /tmp/XFree86.dsl .
# cd /tmp
# umount /mnt/test
# declobber.sh -o /tmp XFree86.dsl
Your new .dsl is in /tmp/XFree86/XFree86_noclobber.dsl
You can rename it
You can mydsl-load it
Posted by Andreas on April 04 2007,22:20
Will this XFree86.dsl work with the Sony C1VE(N) or does it still need some tweaking? Tried several times with DSL and Debian but couldn´t get the right screen resolution 
Posted by Andreas on April 05 2007,10:30
Hi roberts!Could you please give me some hints on installing XFree86.dsl or *.unc?
I am using a hd installation and did never user *.unc
I´ve insalled the *.dsl version but can get it running...
Many thanks in advance.
Andreas
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on April 05 2007,13:46
UNC are only for frugal as you have assumed.roberts indicated that he has a config file for your system in the XFree86 unc version, which he has included a conversion howto in his last post in this thread.
Posted by Andreas on April 05 2007,16:21
| Quote (roberts @ April 04 2007,17:42) |
| Should be trivial to convert any unc to dsl, mount it, tar it, done. # mount XFree86.unc /mnt/test -o ro,loop=/dev/cloop |
Tried this and got mount: mount point /mnt/test does not exist
Posted by curaga on April 05 2007,16:51
Make that directory first withmkdir /mnt/test
Posted by Andreas on April 05 2007,17:58
Thanks curaga,at least this did work...
Now I´ve got to find out which config file to change...
Posted by Andreas on April 05 2007,20:37
You guys can call me fool...but I´m stuck!Made the installation like mentioned in the very short XFree86.unc docu.
Which files need to changed? There are two configuration files in /etc/X11:
XFConfig
XF86Config-4
I´ve been trying different XF86Config-4 I´ve found on the web but none was working. DSL is still running with VGA
Posted by Andreas on April 05 2007,21:51
Next try: installed one XF86Config-4 file and started XFree86.The screen is quickly "bleeding out" from dark to a very light grey. I can see nothing on the screen.
UPDATE: One step further!
When I type "XFree86" the "naked" windowmanager is starting in 1024x480. Bingo!
But if try to start with startx or x again only VGA...
Posted by roberts on April 05 2007,23:43
Your .xserverrc file should look like:exec /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 -nolisten tcp
Posted by Andreas on April 06 2007,06:44
Ive got to correct my last quote: it was not the windows manager that I started but only the Xfree-server directly.@roberts: is this exactly your .xserverrc?
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 -nolisten tcp
When I trie to log in as user DSL I will get this errors:
xinit: No such file or directory (errno2): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 2): Server error
Before the log in another console is starting xdm.
When I log in as root user, DSL is starting "normally" in VGA
Posted by roberts on April 06 2007,15:00
Yes, that is my .xserverrc running on my frugal installed Sony Picturebook at 1024x480. I have my XFree86.unc autoload upon boot.
Posted by Andreas on April 07 2007,06:24
I've got it 
I had to set suid on /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86.
Thanks to all who supported me
Andreas