From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Oct 23 14:29:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA12624 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 14:29:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from milehigh.denver.net (milehigh.denver.net [204.144.180.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA12618 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 14:29:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdc@milehigh.denver.net) Received: (from jdc@localhost) by milehigh.denver.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA01730; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:29:10 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <19981023152909.13159@denver.net> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:29:09 -0600 From: John-David Childs To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: CTX Laptop/Neomagic chipset Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 Organization: Enterprise Internet Solutions Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org While searching through the archives trying to figure out why my CTX 200MhzPentium-MMX laptop was hanging during the "probing devices" stage (I still haven't figured that one out...I've tried both the 2.2.7-PAO boot floppy and 3.0-RELEASE with the same results) I came across a thread from August in this group about "flickering" LCD displays if the laptop uses a Neomagic chipset when the laptop gets warm. The assertion was made that there must be something wrong in the X Server initialization because the flicker doesn't happen in Windoze... While I can't attest to any bug in X (and didn't follow the thread any further) I can without reservation state that the flickering *DOES* happen under Windows NT when it's been on for awhile. I've been running NT Server 4.0 for about 6 months (cuz FreeBSD didn't support my LinkSys EtherFast 10/100 PCMCIA card until (at least 2.2.7-PAO) now). Please CC any replies to me as I'm not (yet) on this list :) -- John-David Childs (JC612) Enterprise Internet Solutions Systems Administration @denver.net/internet-coach/@ronan.net & Network Engineering 8707 E. Florida Ave #814 Denver, CO 80231 If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message