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Date:      Sun, 15 Apr 2001 07:39:19 -0400
From:      "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
To:        Trenton Schulz <twschulz@gloria.cord.edu>, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 and FreeBSD 4.3
Message-ID:  <77690000.987334759@rushlight.rem.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.32.0104142340430.13509-100000@gloria.cord.edu>

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On Sunday, April 15, 2001 00:03:50 -0500, twschulz@gloria.cord.edu wrote:
+----
| With X, sometimes, when I'm leaving the graphics mode(switching consoles
| or ending my X session) the screen does a fade to a nice bright white and
| locks up the machine, causing me to swear and hard reboot the notebook.
+--->8

I see this with 4.0.1 and occasionally with 4.0.2.  Eventually I need to 
cvsup the laptop and see if it still happens with 4.0.3.  As far as I can 
tell it's just a problem with the ATI driver.

As for XFree86-3, I don't think it has support for the LCD panel on the 
5000e/8000.

-- 
brandon s. allbery     [os/2][linux][solaris][japh]
allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator        [WAY too many hats]
allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering
KF8NH carnegie mellon university      ["better check the oblivious first"
-ke6sls]

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