Sony Picturebook Widescreen framebuffer patch, was: Re: [gentoo-user] The Root Block Device is unspecified or not detected - PCMCIA card CD Boot on Sony Vaio

2005-10-31 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:48:24 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 30, 2005, at 11:18 am, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: I'm running Gentoo on my picturebook happily since about 2 or 3 years now. Just ask if there are more problems. I can give you a kernel patch for the neomagic

Re: Sony Picturebook Widescreen framebuffer patch, was: Re: [gentoo-user] The Root Block Device is unspecified or not detected - PCMCIA card CD Boot on Sony Vaio

2005-10-31 Thread Stroller
On Oct 31, 2005, at 3:03 pm, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: I really loved getting the widescreen framebuffer working - it was such a buzz, so cool. That made for the ultimate in notebook usability and portability. I'm copying it here verbatim. It's made against a 2.6.11.n kernel and may need a

Re: [gentoo-user] The Root Block Device is unspecified or not detected - PCMCIA card CD Boot on Sony Vaio

2005-10-30 Thread Richard Watson
On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 02:36 +, Stroller wrote: On Oct 29, 2005, at 10:52 pm, A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Richard Watson wrote: Hi - I have an old Sony Vaio I thought to run Gentoo on with X. The CD drive is attached to a PCMCIA card. When the LiveCD boots it seems to go

Re: [gentoo-user] The Root Block Device is unspecified or not detected - PCMCIA card CD Boot on Sony Vaio

2005-10-30 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:57:28 +1000 Richard Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed Gentoo on a Pentium II 400 Vaio Picturebook, the Sony with a 6 widescreen (1024 x 480??) but never had one of these CD-Roms available, only the floppy drive. In fact I cheated resorted to

Re: [gentoo-user] The Root Block Device is unspecified or not detected - PCMCIA card CD Boot on Sony Vaio

2005-10-30 Thread Stroller
On Oct 30, 2005, at 11:18 am, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: I'm running Gentoo on my picturebook happily since about 2 or 3 years now. Just ask if there are more problems. I can give you a kernel patch for the neomagic frame buffer driver to have it support the 480px display height... I really

[gentoo-user] The Root Block Device is unspecified or not detected - PCMCIA card CD Boot on Sony Vaio

2005-10-29 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I have an old Sony Vaio I thought to run Gentoo on with X. The CD drive is attached to a PCMCIA card. When the LiveCD boots it seems to go OK up until mounting root at which point I get the error The Root Block Device is unspecified or not detected and then I'm offerred to either shell or

Re: [gentoo-user] The Root Block Device is unspecified or not detected - PCMCIA card CD Boot on Sony Vaio

2005-10-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Richard Watson wrote: Hi - I have an old Sony Vaio I thought to run Gentoo on with X. The CD drive is attached to a PCMCIA card. When the LiveCD boots it seems to go OK up until mounting root at which point I get the error The Root Block Device is unspecified or not

Re: [gentoo-user] The Root Block Device is unspecified or not detected - PCMCIA card CD Boot on Sony Vaio

2005-10-29 Thread Stroller
On Oct 29, 2005, at 10:52 pm, A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Richard Watson wrote: Hi - I have an old Sony Vaio I thought to run Gentoo on with X. The CD drive is attached to a PCMCIA card. When the LiveCD boots it seems to go OK up until mounting root at which point I get the error