From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 1 17:53:57 2004 Return-Path: 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 24D7F16A4CE for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 17:53:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from krusty.eaglequest.com (krusty.eaglequest.com [209.103.128.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B495B43D46 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 17:53:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jjy@eaglequest.com) Received: (qmail 71621 invoked from network); 2 Apr 2004 02:23:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO eaglequest.com) (216.234.125.146) by krusty.eaglequest.com with SMTP; 2 Apr 2004 02:23:12 -0000 Message-ID: <406CC893.7040000@eaglequest.com> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 20:57:39 -0500 From: Jim User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brooks Davis References: <406B814C.2020408@eaglequest.com> <20040401035053.GA24389@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 and XFree86-4.x ati driver lockup problem -- Solution X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 01:53:57 -0000 Brooks, Thanks for the tip. I recompiled my kernel and X is working just fine with acpi enabled. Hopefully my little adventure helps others... Best regards, Jim Brooks Davis wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 09:41:16PM -0500, James wrote: > >>To the FreeBSD team, >> >>I struggled with this one for quite a while before figuring it out, so >>here goes... >> >>I had been using FreeBSD 4x for quite some time on my Compaq Presario >>1800. And, XFree86-3.6x worked nicely with the laptop's ATI Rage >>Mobility graphics chip. Unfortunately, the FreeBSD 4x branch didn't >>support the Atheros chipsets in some of the newer networking cards like >>the Netgear WG511, so I upgraded to FreeBSD 5.2.1. >>After that, I couldn't get XFree86-4x to work reliably with my laptop. >>It turned out that the X instability, which included complete system >>lockup, was caused by the ACPI module being loaded upon boot-up. >>Sometimes the Xserver would start-up sometimes not. Also, there was a >>guaranteed system lockup if you exited Xwindows and then re-entered >>Xwindows at a later time. In other words, you only got one Xsession per >>boot! So, after trying all sorts of things in XF86Config, and upgrading >> to XFree86-4.4 from XFree86-4.3 it turned out that all I needed to do >>was add the following line to my /boot/device.hints file... >> >> hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" >> >>After that everything worked great! Xwindows is stable, and my new >>Netgear WG511 card is working like a charm. > > > You might try building a kernel without SMP and apic. That let me use > my ATI Rage P/M Mobility reliably and still keep acpi enabled. > > -- Brooks >