From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Aug 4 16:56:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA20152 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 16:56:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA20066; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 16:56:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA00457; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 16:53:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808042353.QAA00457@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: sthaug@nethelp.no cc: mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Neomagic chipset - is it a hardware problem ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 04 Aug 1998 19:02:46 +0200." <27213.902250166@verdi.nethelp.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 16:53:11 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > Has anyone else seen this problem ? I'm pretty much convinced that > > > it's a hardware problem now, so I'll probably return the machine > > > (second time) nearer the end of the week. > > > > I've seen similar symptoms on a Toshiba using the C&T 65555. The part > > would misbehave so badly that the X server would crash. > > > > Windows worked OK on it though; my hypothesis was just that the X > > driver wasn't doing whatever power management stuff the Windows driver > > was, and so the chip was overheating. I could be way off on that > > though; I know nothing about the C&T architecture. > > I'm using an Acer Extensa 390 here, with a C&T 65555 graphics chip in > 800x600 mode. It's working just fine for me - never had any problem with > X. suspend/resume works too. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that there was anything wrong with the Toshiba or C&T devices in general (especially since I have been bashing this 220CDS for about a year now), merely that I had seen similar symptoms on one such unit which was overheating. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message