jimmy sandhar wrote: > Hi all, > Does anybody know or have done this before, setting up display for Sony VAIO > PCG-XG29. Please let me know if so. > Thanks and Regards, > Uday
I also have a PCG-XG29. All you should need to do is have the latest X from unstable installed and to set the video driver to "neomagic" The latest X from unstable will run in 800x600 for this card, but segfaults trying 1024x768 (the NM2380 code is fairly new I think, so this is probably a temporary issue). Be careful with the interrupts (or maybe I should say, "the interrupt") on this machine. I can reliably lock the machine by having a PCMCIA card plugged in with cardmgr running and then trying to run X (kernel 2.4.0-test10 and pcmcia-cs Oct31). (the video card, USB, firewire, modem, cardbus bridge, audio controller, and some others all use IRQ 9 on mine) David Hinds, the pcmcia-cs maintainer, suggested to me that it might be a framebuffer driver issue. For now just remember to turn off as many devices you can that use the shared IRQ for 2.4.0-test10. In my case, turning off pcmcia and removing my card(s) before running X worked. And how nice it is to see X on a laptop. :) I think that with a 2.2.x kernel I had a bit more luck running both at the same time, but it would still lock occasionally. So far (all 24 hours or so), 800x600 has run well for me. HTH, -- Mike Brownlow http://wsmake.org/~mike/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1024D/8AA6EAFD 3861 96B3 EEA2 285C BE23 F706 3E1E EBB2 8AA6 EAFD "Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins." Pr10:12
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