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Date:      Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:49:18 +1030
From:      Ian Moore <imoore@picknowl.com.au>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        albi <albi@scii.nl>
Subject:   Re: How to back-rev?
Message-ID:  <200501141649.26451.imoore@picknowl.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20050111223129.A50823@starfire.mn.org>
References:  <20050111092004.A47739@starfire.mn.org> <41E3EFF2.60100@scii.nl> <20050111223129.A50823@starfire.mn.org>

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On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:01, John wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 04:25:38PM +0100, albi wrote:
> > John wrote:
> > > I think I may have been too eager to go to Major Release 5 of FreeBSD.
> > > I'm having a lot of trouble with my laptop - with my WIFI cards
> > > freezing the system, and trying to make the swith from XFree86
> > > to Xorg.
> >
> > if i were you i would backup your data and try a fresh 5.3 install,
> > one other thing to try first is to boot without ACPI
>
> You are right, albi!  Turning off ACPI took care of the lock up.  Thanks!
>
> I do miss the power management, though.  Now I need to figure out
> how to turn off just the part that is causing the problem.
>
> I am currently trying to remove all the XFree86 and kde modules from
> 5.2.1 so that I can put in the Xorg stuff from 5.3.  If there's a
> procedure for that somewhere, that'd be awesome.

/usr/ports/Updating - I followed the instructions there when I upgraded my=
=20
5.2.1-RELEASE system to 5.3 & it worked like a charm.
Do make sure you read 20040723 & that you have device io in your kernel.
Oh, and be sure to read the 20041229 entry if you install the latest kde.

Cheers,
=2D-=20
Ian

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