From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Jan 16 11:14:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08994 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 11:14:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jli.com (jli.com [199.2.111.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA08985 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 11:14:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from uucp@jli.com) Received: by jli.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0xtFRk-0002WZC; Fri, 16 Jan 98 09:20 PST Message-Id: Received: (qmail 3827 invoked from network); 16 Jan 1998 17:20:16 -0000 Received: from softdnserror (127.0.0.1) by softdnserror with SMTP; 16 Jan 1998 17:20:16 -0000 To: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Fujitsu 635Tx: interim report From: Bill Trost MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <3820.884971185.1@cloud.rain.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 09:19:45 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Sorry if this is a rerun for some of you, but it looks to me like this message got lost in The Great Disk Failure] The machine arrived about a week ago. It is now running a version of 2.2-stable from October or so. I have a cheap NE2000 clone that I have yet to try under FreeBSD (I seem to have version skew between pccardd and pccard.conf), but it seems to work pretty well otherwise. I did fips myself into never-neverland at one point -- thankfully, my very, very first act after unwrapping the machine was to back it up. Some things I have observed: * In the process of adding an "x" to the end of the machine name, they managed to sneak a NeoMagic video chip in in place of the C&T 65550. Needless to say, XFree86 doesn't work too well, although I did manage to get a working but wacky 640x600 (yup, 640x600) out of XF86_VGA16. 800x600 looked OK, except it was shifted exactly 80 pixels to the right, which makes reading the right edge a wee bit difficult. Nothing seemed to affect the horizontal placement of the image. (Another annoyance, apparently with the entire series, is that there is a single 16550A shared between the serial port and the built-in modem, and the binding has to be changed in firmware. But the IR port has a 16550A of its own...). * I can "warm undock" (undock while suspended) the machine with no problems (the dock contains little more than a floppy and CD-ROM drives). Trying to access the CD-ROM while undock proved catastrophic the one time I tried it, however (all who are surprised, raise their hands (-: ). Oh, and I have not yet tested the joystick port. * I installed (well, restore'd) the entire OS via a hardwired SLIP link. That worked fine, but the first time I tried to use SLIP in multi-user mode, I started getting one silo overflow per packet (a serious throughput hit (-: ). PPP has the same problem. I do not understand why this is a problem -- either I misconfigured the kernel, or the hardware, or something else is wrong. Any tips would be appreciated.