Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 01:24:30 +0800 From: Yong Liu <yongliu@public.bta.net.cn> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: [Fwd: Notebook Problem] Message-ID: <340AFA4E.40B0@public.bta.net.cn>
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 17:28:49 +0800
From: Yong Liu <yongliu@public.bta.net.cn>
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I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.2 on a Twinhead 9133TZ notebook PC w/ the
folloing configuration:
Pentium 133/16M Memory/1.3G HD
12.1" TFT Display (Supports 800x600 at 60Hz non-interlaced)
Trident Cyber 9385 card (2M memory)
I also have a NE-2000 compatible PCMCIA card inserted into slot 1 into
the PCMCIA dock. This dock has a Cirrus Logic PCMCIA controller
built-in.
The poblem I encountered are:
1. I could not make the PCMCIA recognized by FreeBSD. I reconfigured the
kernel to include the PCCARD controllers and devices according the LINT
config template. I also added the ed0 driver. It complains that
"/dev/card0 not configured." when I run the "pccardc" command. BTW, this
PCMCIA card really works fine under Win95. If changing the card may
overcome this problem, I have a D-Link DE650 PCMCIA ethernet card at
hand.
2. I have installed the XFree86 3.3.1 on my notebook. It runs good under
the VGA16 mode when I set the following config:
Video: VGA
Chipset: Generic
Card: Unsupported VGA
Monitor: Standard 640x480
H-Refresh: 35.4
V-Refresh: 50-90
If I set the chipset to cyber938x, the screen gets a very low resolution
with big dots.
I tried the following configuration too:
Video: SVGA
Chipset: cyber938x
Card: Trident TGUI9680 (generic)
Monitor: Extended Super VGA (800x600 at 60Hz ...)
H-Refresh: 31.5,35.4,...
V-Refresh: 50-130
An what I got was a black screen after the "startx" command. But when I
tried to switch between ttyv9 (graphic) and other ttys using the
"CTL-ALT-F?" key combinations, I could see the xterm and xclock windows
for a very short time (about 0.1 sec) and the screen went black again.
I have read all the on-line documents, readmes and tried almost anything
I could think out of.
Could anybody give me some hints on these strange stuff? Or is FreeBSD
is not so good as other free UNIX clones like Linux ? Your happy or bad
experiences with FreeBSD on a notebook are also highly welcomed.
Thank you in advance.
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