Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 13:53:57 -0400 From: Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com> To: Mike Jackson <mjj@pp.fi> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hp omnibook 6000 Message-ID: <20020505175358.0E4523E14@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Message from Mike Jackson <mjj@pp.fi> of "Sun, 05 May 2002 16:38:00 %2B0300." <20020505163800.A13793@ssh.com>
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> Hi,
> Does anyone here besides myself run FreeBSD 4.5 or later on an HP
> OmniBook 6000?
Errm. Running 4.5-RC2 (with the original XFree 4.2 port) right now.
Probably good enough for your purposes.
> Are there any good websites with details and experiences
> from other users?
>
> Specifically, I need help or advice with:
>
> - full screen console mode
You mean you want the console to fill the LCD screen to the edges, rather than
being a little window with text in it? That's a BIOS option - I forget which
one, but it's reasonably obvious. Nothing else will effect the size of the
text in the console, AFAIK.
Personally, I run with the "small text", because it's crisp at the "native"
resolution - when expanded to fill the LCD, it's kinda fuzzy. YMMV.
There's no decent VESA modes in the BIOS, so you can't do (e.g.) 132x60 or
anything. If you find a way, let me know!! :)
> - APM
/etc/rc.conf:
apm_enable="YES"
apmd_enable="YES"
and:
device apm0 at nexus?
in your kernel config file.
This will make suspend-to-ram work (e.g. lid closing, blue button). Sometimes
on resume, the display is dim and flickering. Using either Fn-F1 or Fn-F2 to
adjust the brightness will immediately brighten the display (even if Fn-F1,
which is supposed to dim the display) and stop it flickering.
For BIOS-level suspend-to-disk (e.g. Fn-F12), you'll need a suspend partition.
I have:
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 160,(Suspend to Disk)
start 63, size 1103697 (538 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
end: cyl 72/ head 239/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 1103760, size 37966320 (18538 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 73/ head 0/ sector 1;
end: cyl 1023/ head 239/ sector 63
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
This doesn't work so well all the time, except as an emergency measure (like
when you leave your laptop running unattended and the BIOS does it
automatically). X is likely to crash/hang (you can generally get to the text
consoles and shutdown cleanly).
I find that suspend to ram takes about 15% battery overnight, machine shuts
down on ~15%.
O yeah, and 'reboot' stopped working some time ago with other improvements.
Use 'shutdown -p' to power off and cycle the power manually.
> - sound
Put:
snd_maestro3_load="YES"
In /boot/loader.conf.
If you have lots of static on the sound output (especially when moving the
mouse), try turning the 'PC Speaker' down in the mixer. I love wmixer and it's
OSD, but it doesn't seem to save my settings...
Also, I found that I needed to lie about the FP timings to get XGA resolution
in X11. This has worked for me for over a year (but I won't replace your FP if
it kills it ;-):
# Any number of monitor sections may be present
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Hitachi TX36D81VC1CAC"
#HorizSync 31.5 - 48.5
HorizSync 15-80
VertRefresh 23-90
> I have tried, to no avail, to get full screen and APM working by
> recompiling the kernel and enabling settings in startup files. Please
> let me know if you have these things working and how you did it :)
The above Works For Me (TM).
HTH.
AS
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