Date: 17 Apr 2001 10:59:03 +1000 From: Toby Hutton <thutton@vet.com.au> To: <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 and FreeBSD 4.3 Message-ID: <86y9t0nxyg.fsf@kevin.vic.bigpond.net.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.32.0104142340430.13509-100000@gloria.cord.edu> References: <Pine.BSI.4.32.0104142340430.13509-100000@gloria.cord.edu>
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Trenton Schulz <twschulz@gloria.cord.edu> writes: > On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > > Hi, > > I recently got a i8000 for work and so far I am fairly pleased with the success > > I am having. Currently the internal modem and ethernet work, USB works and X is > > running. > > Just wondering? But does your Inspiron 8000 use the ATI Mobility and have > a builtin DVD drive? I had a couple problems that I can't seem to figure > out, and haven't annoyed me enough to do something about it... > > 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. > This is with XFree86 4.0.2 on up (I couldn't get a configuration to work > with XFree86-3). I'm wondering if it's my hardware or XFree86-4 not as > ready for primetime status. I have noticed this fade to white thing happens particularly if you are using the text consoles and change font size with Fn+F7 on one console and switch to another. > My DVD drive isn't detected unless I wait for about a minute to boot the > kernel (by setting the autoboot to 60). If I don't wait that long then I > get "ad0 identity retires exceeded" or something along those lines (don't > have the dmesg handy :( YES! I've been getting this but I hadn't found a way to fix it - I've been DVD-less for weeks. I'll try this waiting thing out, thanks! I've spoken to Soren Schmidt briefly, he believes the Dell ATA controller isn't following spec... > > Also, I can't suspend/resume which I am told is because of a BIOS bug which > > sucks but there's not much to be done about that :) > > (I can induce a suspend/resume OK but when the laptop comes back the fxp card > > spits millions of 'SCB timeout' and 'DMA timeout', and it seems the ata > > controller wedges, or doesn't reinit the controller). APM is the only thing not working for me now. I get 'resetting ATA devices' upon waking up or something similar and the machine freezes. I'm not going to freeze it now to get the proper messages... :) So for me, installing FreeBSD involved: Polling mode didn't work for the PCIC - gave it IRQ 10, fixed. Sound card wasn't detected - add snd_maestro3_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf, fixed. DVD drive not identified - wait a minute at boot, (hopefully) fixed. Everything else, including XFree86 4.03 @ 1400x1050 works beautifully. -- Toby. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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