FC3 X11 On a Sony PCG-C1F
Tags: Fedora, Linux
So I’ve been clearing out some stuff and I found another thing of use.
When I had a Sony Vaio, I remember the most annoying thing to get working was X11, specifically finding the right Fedora Core xorg.conf. I’ve uploaded my working xorg.conf here , now if you’re a really newbie and need some steps read-on, else you’re probably done 
Firstly, if you boot the PCG-C1F from the CD-ROM, and just hit enter at the install prompt, anaconda will try and start X, and when it does it can’t set the resolution right. So, the best thing to do is install in text mode. Text mode is started at the install prompt with:
The install should go fine, upon 1st reboot, Fedora will try to load X (assuming you’ve installed it) , and you won’t be able to go any further as you need to select I agree on the user agreement, but the button is off the screen :’(
To go further you’re probably gonna need a USB disk, copy my xorg.conf onto the disk, and boot the Vaio from the Fedora Core Install CD with your USB disk plugged in (If the disk isn’t plugged in, the drivers won’t be loaded), But this time from the install prompt go into rescue mode….
Copy the xorg.conf from the USB disk to /etc/X11 and reboot.
X11 will boot up and now you can accept the user agreement, you’ll hit next, next, next and find on your 2nd reboot that X is broken again 
This time hold down ctrl & alt at the same time and hit F2 and you’ll get a shell prompt, log in as root, mount your USB disk and overwrite /etc/xorg.conf again, final reboot, and all is good 
Look a screen-shot to prove I got it working ! 
9th April, 2007 - 6:14 pm
Hello!
Thanks for all your work.
The trouble is to get my Sony Vaio PCG-C1F to work in 1024×480 resolution on X.
I can get it looking good onto the Fedora Core login view.
After entering username and password, it looses normal picture and after holding Fn+F7 on the third time, it shows the “normal” screen picture but in 640×480 px.
I am a true newbie on this, so I wonder:
what is the exact command (in CLI) for copying from USB-stick (sda1?) to my harddisc (hda1/VolGroup00-LogVol00?).
Everything seems to change once I have gone into linux rescue mode.
The FC4 system from CD-ROM is loaded into a virtual image in RAM, but where are my already installed files. Not to mention the USB-stick?
//Stig
9th April, 2007 - 10:43 pm
Hi Stig,
Not sure I’ve totally understood your comment, but… in “rescue mode”, if you’ve booted up with the USB disk plugged in, both it and your old root file system should be available under /mnt/ …. if you’ve got into “normal mode” you can bring up a text login with CTRL + ALT + F1 , once you have a shell you can mount your USB stick, so something like
mkdir /mnt/USB
mount /dev/sha1 /mnt/USB
should do the trick,
HTH