Re: Woody on Sony VAIO PCG-8A6M, GRX316G
Hi,
I have a gr7/k (similar to gr214*, gr114* and others)
> Hi,
>
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> My machine has a 16.1 inch screen with a physical resolution of
> 1600x1200. The ads say it has a ATI MOBILITY RADEON 7500. Is there any
> other machine like that?
try an lspci -vv and see the exact model of the VGA adapter.
I have a Mobility M6 LY advertised as a radeon mobility. I have to use X4.2 to use the ati driver (previous versions don't support this model).
the vesa driver should work fine with X4.1 (no accelleration)
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> Did anybody have this laptop and installed woody on it? How to
> activate sound and acpi? How to activate an external mouse, the cd
> writer, dvd player and usb?
ACPI: you have to compile your own patched kernel (www.kernel.org and www.sourceforge.net/projects/acpi) to get a more complete acpi implementation.
If some devices can't get an irq (and that's why you can't get sound, usb, etc.) you should really try the latest acpi patch.
sound: lspci -vv should tell which driver you need to compile
cdwriter: take a look at some how to at www.tldp.org (you have to compile ide-scsi emulation etc.)
dvdplayer: try xine or mplayer
external mouse: usb mouse? ps2 mouse? I think there are lots of howto's
HTH,
mattia
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