Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 13:22:17 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Incompatibility between ACPI and the X server Message-ID: <20031207131848.W7085@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <200312071013.12797.thierry@herbelot.com> References: <200312071013.12797.thierry@herbelot.com>
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On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > I'm trying to update a notebook, to run 5.2. The beast is an oldish Vaio > PC-F707 (Pent-III + Neomagic). > > When booting with ACPI enabled, X-Windows just stays "frozen" : the screen is > blanked, then there is no more progress (and no log in /var/log/XFree.log). > When booting without ACPI, X-Windows runs happily. > > How do I help debugging this problem ? When the screen is frozen, I can't > escape to the kernel debugger. You can set up a serial console and use that to hit the debugger. You can also see if that is causing a full hang of the system or if just X is stuck. Check the kernel debugging section of the Handbook for details. It sounds like, though, that the ACPI tables on your system are not routing interrupts or otherwise specifying correct resources for your video card. You should capture the output of boot -v (serial console is also handy for this) and use acpidump to grab your ACPI tables. > PS3 : an ACPI dump is accessible at http://thierry.herbelot.free.fr/foo.asl On the ball there :) Also, nitpick: It's "X" or "X11" or "XFree86", but never "X-Windows." -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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