From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Jan 5 19:43:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from ece.cmu.edu (ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.136.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E105137B405 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 19:43:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu (allbery@VPN92.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.138.92]) (authenticated) by ece.cmu.edu (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g063hRg01584; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:43:27 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8k and ATI Rage Mobility 128 From: "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH To: Ben Lovett Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020105190148.A7553@bsdguru.com> References: <20020105190148.A7553@bsdguru.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0 (Preview Release) Date: 05 Jan 2002 22:43:24 -0500 Message-Id: <1010288609.25239.28.camel@vpn92.ece.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 On Sat, 2002-01-05 at 22:01, Ben Lovett wrote: > I have been running FreeBSD on my I8K since June of 2001, with XFree86 > 4.x on a ATI Rage Mobility 128 video card. And, because I opted to get > the 1600x1200 resolution screen I have been running at that since then. > But... because I tend to value my eyesight, I would like to decrease the > resolution to something like 1280x1024. That all works great, until I > decide to switch to the console, and then the display fades to white and > I have to power off the machine without a shutdown :-( > > So, as to my question.. Does anyone have a system like this running at a > resolution like what I am looking for? As to my system setup. I am > running 4.4-STABLE built on December 19, with XFree86 4.1.0 patchlevel > 7. My 5000e with 1600x1200 display does that sometimes; it's less common with recent XFree86 patchlevels, and in fact I can currently only trigger it by doing a suspend/resume while X is running. (Even if I switch to a text VC before suspending.) -- 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] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message