From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 22 7:36:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from citadel.cequrux.com (citadel.cequrux.com [192.96.22.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E8B937B422 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 07:36:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cequrux.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) id QAA10762; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:36:28 +0200 (SAST) Received: by citadel.cequrux.com via recvmail id 10760; Fri Sep 22 16:36:15 2000 Message-ID: <39CB6ED0.C98E045@cequrux.com> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:38:09 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler Organization: Cequrux Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Siegbert Baude Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Framebuffer driver? References: <39CB622E.4B1A6BE4@cequrux.com> <39CB6AC5.D2ABD0DC@gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Siegbert Baude wrote: > > You can use any X-Server (including the accelerated ones) atop the > framebuffer-device on Linux. No need to use the X-Framebuffer-Server. Couldn't get it to work, but maybe that's just me. I tried using the XFDrake configurator, xf86config, and the old XF86Config file that worked with FreeBSD, but got nowhere. Then again, I couldn't get XFDrake or xf86config to configure the FB server *either*, and only got that to work again by doing an `upgrade' from the Mandrake CD-ROMs. I can't remember the problems now, although one I do remember is X starting up and logging all the dot clocks as 28.0, and then saying no modes matching the dot clock were found. The chipset is a Trident Cyberblade i/1, and I struggled a lot with FreeBSD as well with it, eventually only getting it to work by downloading a config file from a web site (ironically for Linux). XFree86-4.0 had no problem with it at all (but had a whole bunch of other problems, which caused me to revert to 3.3.6). Since buying this laptop 4 months ago, I seem to have spent a huge amount of time just trying to get into into a usable state. The lesson being to research before purchasing, rather than just buying the one that seemed the best value for money at the time. > > There are a couple of other nice aspects - doing a `halt' actually > > powers down the laptop, which isn't the case with FreeBSD (but maybe > > I've just not configured apm properly on FreeSBD?). > > Look at the -p option of shutdown. Works well for me and I also heard this from > other guys here on the list. Yeah, that looks like it'll work. gram -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cequrux.com Director, Research and Development WWW: http://www.cequrux.com CEQURUX Technologies Phone: +27(21)423-6065 Firewalls/VPN Specialists Fax: +27(21)424-3656 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message