Disclaimer: Use at own risk!
Thanks to Craig Arnold for this:
Try this:
Go to:
1. Open Display Properties
2. Select Settings Tab
3. Click Advanced
4. Select Monitor Tab
5. Uncheck the box which says "Hide modes that this monitor cannot display."
6. Click OK to get back to the Settings tab.
7. Select 1024x480 & apply.
Pres Nevins noted the following:
The C1VJ Win2k instructions page worked for me on my C1VJ. Here's what it
says: once you install the ATI video driver, you have go to the Display
properties panel, Settings tab, Advanced button. Then, in the ATI panel that
comes up, in the Monitor tab, uncheck the checkbox that limits it from
displaying modes that the display "can't handle."
Click OK, then in the Screen Area popup, you should be able to select
1040x480.
Thanks to Emanuel Brown for this:
Besides the Sony one... "Lots of other drives work. The company that makes the drives for
Sony is Y-E Data, and they make drives for lots of other companies,
most notably Apple's iMacs. Any drive sourced from them will work with
a VAIO."
Thanks to Andy Nguyen for these instructions:
- Distr: Redhat 7.0, but this should be generic for all other dist
- C1VM, which is the Australian version of the C1VN.
- Kernel 2.4.1-ac10
- When configuring the kernel (I use "make menuconfig"), enable Sound card
support, OSS sound modules (Also Verbose and Persistent DMA buffer),
and Yamaha YMF7xx PCI audio.
CONFIG_SOUND=y
CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m
CONFIG_SOUND_TRACEINIT=y
CONFIG_SOUND_DMAP=y
CONFIG_SOUND_YMFPCI=m
CONFIG_SOUND_YMFPCI_LEGACY=y
- Include YMFCPI in /etc/modules.conf
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 ymfpci
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
Note: If you experience a buzzing noise after doing this, follow Andy's further
advice:
"I had the buzz sometimes when changing config, but never on a clean boot.
When that happens I just turn down the volume in text mode with "aumix"
and run sound either in text mode or in X. Another quick fix is to run
mpg123 in text mode and play a MP3 file."
I've included Andy's change in my kernel configuration file above. You should be
able to just add the three lines to /etc/modules.conf before restarting with the new kernel.
Status: Now in the kernel. RH7.1 will even add a Memorystick Icon to the X desktop.
Thanks to Marc Boucher for e-mailing me the latest version of his patch!
--- linux-2.4.0-ac10-mb/drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h 2001/01/21 19:05:34 1.1
+++ linux-2.4.0-ac10-mb/drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h 2001/01/21 19:08:37
@@ -132,6 +132,12 @@
US_SC_UFI, US_PR_CB, NULL,
US_FL_SINGLE_LUN | US_FL_START_STOP ),
+UNUSUAL_DEV( 0x054c, 0x0032, 0x0131, 0x0131,
+ "Sony",
+ "Memorystick MSC-U01",
+ US_SC_UFI, US_PR_CB, NULL,
+ US_FL_SINGLE_LUN | US_FL_START_STOP ),
+
UNUSUAL_DEV( 0x057b, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0299,
"Y-E Data",
"Flashbuster-U",
Mike Hopkins' provided Memorystick instructions, summarized here:
Build scsi support into the kernel
(I found I had to leave USB Storage as a module, not compile it into the kernel)
You can check the contents of /proc/bus/usb/devices (at least in 2.2.x) to see if it detected.
Load the USB Storage module (as root):
% insmod usb-storage
You should get a message like
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices scsi : 1 host. Vendor: Sony Model: MSC-U01 Rev: 1.00 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 63424 [30 MB] [0.0 GB] usb-storage.c: new MODE_SENSE_6 data = 06 00 00 00 sda: Write Protect is off sda: sda1
You can then mount the Memorystick as a disk at sda1. Mike made a directory
/mnt/stick
and mounted it with
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/stick
Mike states: 'I have the line
/dev/sda1 /mnt/stick vfat exec,dev,user,suid,rw,noauto 0 0
in my /etc/fstab, and I put a kdelnk on my kde desktop, and to mount and umnount the stick
I just click on the icon. If you're running kde, just copy the "floppy" icon and make the obvious changes.'
If you're not, these steps will cleanly mount and unmount the memory stick once set up as above:
insmod usb-storage
mount /mnt/stick
[cp files, etc.]
umount /mnt/stick
rmmod usb-storage
(Y'all can tell me what of the above is not needed, or what I'm missing)
Status: Now in the kernel patches, starting with 2.4.5-ac20.
1. Get Marcel Wijlaars' patch (or get it via FTP).
2. Extract kernel 2.4.2 and apply patch-2.4.2-ac19 or later. Basic instructions here.
3. Apply Marcel's patch.
4. Continue building the kernel.
5. When modifying Lilo, add vga=0x301 "otherwise you get a blank bars at the top and bottom of the screen, and a misplaced cursor," Abe Waranowitz notes.
He also notes that Marcel did all the work and came up with the Lilo fix.
Ellick Chan notes there are utilities for LCD brightness and battery info [Edited]:
"The site is: http://us1.samba.org/ftp/unpacked/picturebook/
All you need to do is download vaiobat.c and setbrightness.c to a directory, and type:
gcc -o setbrightness setbrightness.c
gcc -o vaiobat vaiobat.c
These utils (at least setbright.c) seem to work on the N505vx and Z505js models as well." Thanks Ellick!
If you have problems getting your PCMCIA-connected drive recognized under 2.4.whatever, try installing the latest version of PCMCIA-CS (or equivalent). This has solved three people's problems.
Abe Waranowitz has the ISO image and the floppy image available. Thanks Abe!
The idea is that you use them instead of running the program to make the BIOS update floppy, then follow Sony's instructions from there.
Adrian Colegate provided this solution; I have not tested it and cannot help you with it. If you don't know what you're doing,
seek help on the web forum.
"Before I begin, I'd like it to be known that Kentaro" [e-mail removed to prevent spammer harvesting] "helped me out by supplying the URL.
Right, here's what a C1Vx user needs to do in order to get 32bit Cardbus support (plus a host of other stuff) working after installing Windows 2000.
Download the BIOS upgrade from here.
It's the Japanese/US version so C1VE users need to change a file called pc_info.txt
Change the line that reads:
Model Name = PCG-C1VE(GB)
To:
Model Name = PCG-C1VN
Then change the file attribute to read-only.
Now you can run the BIOS updater and the program will think you've got a US/Japanese machine and run build the boot floppy to allow for BIOS update."
Andy Nguyen reports he successfully updated the BIOS on his C1VM (the Australian version).
Note: Due to space/time constraints on my part, it would be best if you could set up a web page with your C1V* tips/solutions and send me the link instead.
Jan Drost submitted the following:
How to upgrade a bios for a c1ve with XP
have a look at http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-17/0206.html
by using the bios-update for a c1vn you get a folder c:\windows\temp\bios where you find a batchfile to create a dos bios update disk
Malcolm Pitcher & Paul Robinshaw submitted the following:
Here're some observations from attempting to dual boot a PCG-C1VE with Windows 2000 & Linux Mandrake 7.2:
Windows 2000
1) Able to confirm that the advice offered at http://www.stevebarr.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/barrst/goto.pl?c1vnsol to permit the BIOS upgrade is good and works.
2) At the beginning of the install of Windows 2000 a friendly MS message comes up of:
"setup was unable to install windows boot loader"
Apparently, Windows ME can render the Windows 2000 install useless. The solution can be found at:
http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2001/2001-02-26.htm
It's also documented in the Knowledge Base: Q279700.
3) The software supplied by Sony at http://www.ita.sel.sony.com/support/pc/pcgc1vn/windows2000/
seems to be an early version. Keeping an eye out for upgrades.
4) The camera utility simply locks up & refuses to work.
5) The initial stage of install of Windows 2000 is incredibly slow. We ignored the warnings about using SmartDrv.exe and the copy of source
files from a D: partition to Window's temporary install directory took over 2 hours. Be warned.
6) The job dial utility also fails to work.
Linux Mandrake 7.2
There appears to be a problem with the USB detection (GB Model only?) that causes the Mandrake installer to hang when entering the disk partioning section. Removing the USB floppy when the Second Stage Install has started cures the problem.
Nick Brown submitted the following:
Windows 2000: the C1VE ships with Windows Me only. For various reasons,
when I installed Windows 2000 (using the Select CDs), I put it on D:. This
is a pain since almost all of the drivers from the Sony site have explicit
code so they only work when \WINNT is on C:. For the video driver and one
or two others, I was able to press "Cancel" at the right moment, then
capture the driver tree and run it from there. For others, notably sound, I
had to ROBOCOPY \WINNT over to C:\WINNT and boot from there, then ROBOCOPY
the differences back to D: at the end, all this using a spare version of
Windows NT 4.0.
Even then things weren't all plain sailing. The Sony driver kits from the
Web site don't include everything you need if your copy of Windows 2000 came
from a Select (ie, non-Sony OEM) CD. Fortunately, when it asks you for
these missing files, you can generally borrow them from C:\WINDOWS (Windows
Me).
Dave Madden submitted the following: I just installed RedHat-7.1 on a new PCG-C1VN without using a CDROM drive. The problem, as I'm sure you know, is that the RH 2-floppy PCMCIA boot fails because the floppy is USB. The secret is to boot and do a minimal install of RH-6.2 (using the single-floppy PCMCIA boot and an NFS or FTP install), then copy the 7.1 ISO images to your /home partition. Next, you can do a complete 7.1 boot and install, since the "install from disk" method only requires a single floppy, and you can have it pick up the CDROM images from the /home partition you originally created under 6.2.
"Richard" writes: I was able to config my PB-C1VN so that the pointer and a USB mouse ca work at the same time using Slackware 8.0 default with version 2.4.5 kernel.
- in /etc/rc.d/rc.gpm
gpm -m /dev/mouse -t ps2 -R ps2 -M -m /dev/mice -t ps2 -R ps2
- in XF86Config
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/gpmdata"
Option "Protocol" "busmouse"
EndSection
- I configured USB by following:
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/usb/input.txt
Stelian Pop writes: After several weeks of XFree recompiles I have an excellent
news for you and the entire Linux Picturebook community: external
monitor works.
I am right now able to turn off the LCD panel and show the
X desktop on an external monitor at 1280x1024x32...
In order to be able to use it you need:
* the CVS version of XFree
* a kernel which _DOES_ _NOT_ have the framebuffer patch
If you use the framebuffer kernel patch you will get strange
results, I will contact the X and fb developers about this and
see if we can find a solution to have both things.
This "patch applies cleanly against XFree 4.1.0" stable source Patch
Attached you can find my XF86Config-4. For switching between
1024x480 panel mode and external monitor mode you just have
to change at the beginning of the file the line:
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
with
Screen 0 "Screen1" 0 0
Stelian Pop
|---------------- Free Software Engineer -----------------| | Alcôve - http://www.alcove.com - Tel: +33 1 49 22 68 00 | |------------- Alcôve, liberating software ---------------|
# XFree86 4.0 configuration generated by Xconfigurator Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "XFree86 Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 # Screen 0 "Screen1" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Mouse1" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection # By default, Red Hat Linux 6.0 and later use xfs Section "Files" FontPath "unix/:7100" EndSection # Module loading section Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double-buffering Load "GLcore" # OpenGL support Load "dri" # Direct rendering infrastructure Load "drm" # Direct rendering infrastructure Load "glx" # OpenGL X protocol interface Load "extmod" # Misc. required extensions Load "v4l" # Video4Linux # Load "pex5" # PHIGS for X 3D environment (obsolete) # Load "record" # X event recorder # Load "xie" # X Image Extension (obsolete) # You only need the following two modules if you do not use xfs. # Load "freetype" # TrueType font handler # Load "type1" # Adobe Type 1 font handler EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" Option "XkbLayout" "fr" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" # Modified by mouseconfig Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Generic LCD Panel" VendorName "Sony" ModelName "C1VE" Modeline "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 560 -hsync -vsync Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "External monitor" VendorName "unknown" ModelName "unknown" # Blue noname screen (Bridge BM17C) HorizSync 30.0-70.0 VertRefresh 50.0-160.0 Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "ATI|Rage Mobility P/M" Driver "ati" BoardName "Unknown" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "ATInopanel" Driver "ati" BoardName "Unknown" # Uncomment the following line to enable external display Option "crt_screen" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "ATI|Rage Mobility P/M" Monitor "Generic LCD Panel" DefaultDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x480" EndSubSection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1024x480" EndSubSection Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1024x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen1" Device "ATInopanel" Monitor "External monitor" DefaultDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection
Christian Bauer notes:
Great! It works.
I dropped framebuffer support in 2.4.12, compiled XFree HEAD from CVS
and it' running without problems. Now, only powermanagement is left and
the picturebook is the perfect portable Linux solution.
BTW, you could use different ServerLayout sections for the configuration
and switch between the configurations with:
X -layout portable
X -layout station
If the section identifiers are "station" and "portable". I'm switching
to USB mouse in my serverlayout, too.
'gandalf' writes:
Hi!, i have some info about C1-framebuffer and X11 ...maybe all know them
..but maybe not ;)) ....so i will share them.
1) With vga=301 in lilo, screen was not vertically centered (2 lines up)
...solved putting vga=311.
2) Normally (without frame buffer full console) X11 modeline to right
display 1024x480 was:
ModeLine "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563
-hsync -vsync
if i start up X11 from a framebuffer console video is not right ...here we
have 2 solution:
a)The first i tried was to use the Framebuffer X Server XF86_FBDev. No
luck first time ..(X11 even want start) than discovered that server FBDev
is 3.0 version of X so modified the right config file and after some try i
made it ....here are the right config lines (the main one):
HorizSync 30-60
VertRefresh 40-90
ModeLine "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563
-hsync -vsync
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Rage Mobility"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
Option "power_saver"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Driver "fbdev"
Device "ATI Rage Mobility"
Monitor "Generic|Generic Laptop Display Panel 640x480"
DefaultColorDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x480"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 1024 480
EndSubsection
EndSection
-------------------------------end here----------------
Only problem ........FBDev X11 driver is not accelerated (in any way ..i
am not talking about 3d acc ...but 2d acc) ....so X11 is really really
slow (try to move a "opaque" window and u will see). So lets go to
solution b.
b) Get fbset utility (its a must for framebuffer console) run it with -x
option; u will get an output like this
Mode "1024x480"
# D: 39.485 MHz, H: 32.471 kHz, V: 64.684 Hz
DotClock 39.486
HTimings 1024 1048 1192 1216
VTimings 480 497 501 502
Flags "-HSync" "-VSync" # Warning: XFree86 doesn't support accel
EndMode
if we compare the timings whith the normal x11 one (for 1024x480) we see
that they are close but different ;))) ...so i think maybe this one are
the right one so i used this line.
ModeLine "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1048 1192 1216 480 497 501 502
-hsync -vsync
x11 started up and image was not wrong as before but was not vertically
centered :((( ....last thought was .... "ok i will mix them" so here is
the right final one!!!!!
------------------------start here working line----------------------
ModeLine "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1048 1192 1216 480 488 494 563
-hsync -vsync
------------------------end here working line-------------------------
use it with
HorizSync 30-60
VertRefresh 40-90
this way u can use X11 from a framebuffer console using ATI MACH 64
accelerated (2d) driver (there is a great difference from FBDev one)!!!!!
Ok story ends here .... as i tell before, maybe u didn't have all that
problem and are already using x11 from a fb console ... maybe not ....so
i posted it.