From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 14 06:19:29 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB2A216A4CE for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 06:19:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from jupiter.picknowl.com.au (jupiter.picknowl.com.au [203.87.94.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 191B643D1D for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 06:19:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imoore@picknowl.com.au) Received: from daemon.foo.com (adsl-176-70.swiftdsl.com.au [218.214.176.70]) by jupiter.picknowl.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8286F96FFC; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:49:27 +1030 (CST) From: Ian Moore To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:49:18 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <20050111092004.A47739@starfire.mn.org> <41E3EFF2.60100@scii.nl> <20050111223129.A50823@starfire.mn.org> In-Reply-To: <20050111223129.A50823@starfire.mn.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1612666.VDjPX7F7sY"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200501141649.26451.imoore@picknowl.com.au> cc: John cc: albi Subject: Re: How to back-rev? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 06:19:29 -0000 --nextPart1612666.VDjPX7F7sY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc --nextPart1612666.VDjPX7F7sY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBB52RufITqkXhImmIRAls1AKDPsRB8Ig7XVAG5ccarnQU/Q4zwbACgjC7p ek0OWUuCIS//EU+usMoTBNg= =L18f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1612666.VDjPX7F7sY--