From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Aug 6 8:30:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 834E637B400; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 08:30:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postal1.es.net (postal1.es.net [198.128.3.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BD3143E65; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 08:30:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal1.es.net (Postal Node 1) with ESMTP id GQF37091; Tue, 06 Aug 2002 08:30:27 -0700 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C60995D04; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 08:30:26 -0700 (PDT) To: "Michael W. Collette" Cc: FreeBSD Mailing Lists , Greg 'groggy' Lehey Subject: Re: Problems with IBM ThinkPad T30 1400x1050 display? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Aug 2002 19:47:40 PDT." <200208051947.40682.metrol@metrol.net> Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 08:30:26 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20020806153026.C60995D04@ptavv.es.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Michael, Thanks. I used your configuration information extensively in getting my T30 up and happy. Of course, the XFree86 information was of limited use as IBM has switched from the S3 Savage to the ATI Radeon M7 chip. But it did give some ideas for different mode lines. Unfortunately, none of these seems to make a difference. :-( Since Windows seems to have no problems and simply having the screen blank (but not shut off) causes no problem, I suspect that it is a timing issue of some sort in the turn-on operation. The Windows drivers probably do something a bit differently that makes it work. I imagine FreeBSD and XFree86 simply rely on APM to "do the right thing" and that does not work in this case. Probably something that BIOS could fix, but IBM is barely willing to admit that FreeBSD runs on these boxes, so I doubt that they will be very receptive. Now, if Linux does the same thing, I might get somewhere as IBM spends a lot of effort there. I have not seen any reports of this on XFree86 xperts list, so I suspect it does not happen there. :=( Ah, well. I guess I'll put out a plea to 1400x1050 ThinkPad users on xperts and see if I can get confirmation one way or the other. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message