From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 27 20:23:24 2003 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 3ADE237B401 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 20:23:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A77943FA3 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 20:23:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id B08E6526F8; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:53:18 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:53:18 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Karl Agee Message-ID: <20030728032318.GO45069@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20030724214606.026ee978@pop3.owt.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20030724214606.026ee978@pop3.owt.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20030727190858.030af838@pop3.owt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Gl2oMwHnV9aOxBMt" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20030727190858.030af838@pop3.owt.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group? 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: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 03:23:24 -0000 --Gl2oMwHnV9aOxBMt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 19:15:57 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: > At 11:10 AM 7/27/2003 +0930, you wrote: > >> On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 21:47:23 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: >>> I am having problems getting X set up properly on a laptop. Should >>> I post the question here or on the mobile list? >> >> Start here, but give some details. If this is a Dell Inspiron 5100, >> I'm working on it. > > Hi Greg and all: You forgot to copy "and all". I'm doing it now. > Laptop: Thinkpad iSeries 1300 > Video: Silicon Motion LynxEM+ chip > Screen: 800x600 hpa > > system: FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE > > Only the vga driver works, and not very well. Gives me only a 640x480 > display and the windows etc are not displayed properly (too large for the > display). That's a window manager issue. > This setup was configured using either xf86config or xf86cfg > -textmode. Using the "autodetect" selection froze the display, as > does trying to setup manually using the above and the silicon motion > driver. Killing X server doesnt work, have to reboot the machine. Hmm. Anything unusual in /var/log/XFree86.0.log? I had this recently: =20 (=3D=3D) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xc0000,0x40000) was already = clear (WW) RADEON(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum (II) RADEON(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000 (=3D=3D) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0x0,0x1000) was already clear= =20 (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon Mobility M7 LW (AGP)" (ChipID =3D 0= x4c57) (--) RADEON(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xf0000000 (--) RADEON(0): MMIO registers at 0xe0100000 (=3D=3D) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xe0100000,0x80000) was alrea= dy clear (--) RADEON(0): VideoRAM: 16384 kByte (64-bit DDR SDRAM) (=3D=3D) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xe0100000,0x80000) was alrea= dy clear (II) RADEON(0): CloneDisplay option not set -- defaulting to auto-detect (II) RADEON(0): Primary Display =3D=3D Type 2 (II) RADEON(0): Panel ID string: =FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF= =FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF (II) RADEON(0): Panel Size from BIOS: 65535x65535 =20 *** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not *** be the reason for the server aborting. =20 Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting This was on a Dell Inspiron 5100, and it's caused by incorrect mapping of the video BIOS. It would be interesting to see if you're having a similar problem.=20 > This notebook works fine with suse 8.1, Red Hat 9, Knoppix 3.1, etc. I also tried my laptop with Knoppix 3.1, and it worked fine. It's obviously a FreeBSD problem, and I'm currently trying to localize it. > I did notice the XF86Config file is the old XFree 3.x series format, > apparently not the newer series 4.x format. (dont know if that is > significant). Depends on where it came from. The log file is more interesting, and it'll tell you which of the myriad possible config files it uses. 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