From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Aug 29 08:11:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA09097 for mobile-outgoing; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 08:11:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA09087 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 08:11:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA08840; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 09:11:17 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 09:11:17 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199708291511.JAA08840@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: yongliu@public.bta.net.cn Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Notebook Problem In-Reply-To: <34069651.330E@public.bta.net.cn> References: <34069651.330E@public.bta.net.cn> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [ Note, this should go to freebsd-mobile, which is for laptop questions, but since that's not a well advertised list I can understand why it wasn't ] > 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. It sounds like FreeBSD isn't recognizing your PCMCIA controller. Does this machine use CardBus? If so, it's probably not supported in FreeBSD. What is the 'dmesg' output? > 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: XFree86 problems are best solved on the XFree86 mailing list. Nate