Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 21:58:22 +1000 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Losher <plosher-keyword-freebsd.a36e57@plosh.net> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with XFree 4.3/FreeBSD and a Inspiron 5100. Message-ID: <20030801115822.GK767@adelaide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20030729200042.P60317@luftpost.plosh.net> References: <200304051232.17119.plosher%2Bfreebsd.org@plosh.net> <200304072001.02832@tardis.isc.org> <200304072335.18008.randy@terbush.org> <20030728213340.N56958@luftpost.plosh.net> <20030729180231.F23501@wonkity.com> <20030729200042.P60317@luftpost.plosh.net>
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On Tuesday, 29 July 2003 at 20:14:12 -0700, Peter Losher wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Warren Block wrote: >> On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Peter Losher wrote: >> >>> Now I have the problem where now when I load X11, and pressing any >>> key on the keyboard now goes thru a series of zoom levels instead >>> of providing input. This was working fine for the past 48 hours, >>> and I can't fathom what I may have done to cause this (X11 is now >>> unusable in this state) >> >> See this (no wrap): >> >> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1555164+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2003/freebsd-questions/20030601.freebsd-questions > > Thanks for the link Warren, I tried what it suggested ('make > deinstall; make reinstall' the XFree-4-libraries) but to no avail. No, that wouldn't make any difference. > I did get it to stop cycling thru the resolutions, but that was > because I removed all of the other resolution options. :) Interesting. Under 5.1 we have the issue that the BIOS space is not mapped correctly. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-jul2003.html#23 for the gory details. In particular, check /var/run/dmesg.boot. I get: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #0: Wed Jul 30 13:18:15 CST 2003 .. orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xe0000-0xe3fff,0xdf800-0xdffff,0xd0000-0xd17ff,0xc0000-0xcefff on isa0 This line *should* read: orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xe0000-0xe3fff,0xdf800-0xdffff,0xd0000-0xd17ff,0xcf000-0xcffff,0xc0000-0xcefff on isa0 The reason for the missing space is that the memory area 0xcc000-0xcffff is not mapped (shows up as 0xff). You can test this on your machine like this: # dd if=/dev/mem bs=64k count=1 skip=12 | hd | less 0000bff0 04 03 80 00 0c 00 00 00 20 00 10 0b 3e 00 02 40 |........ ...>..@| 0000c000 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |................| * 00010000 Those last three lines show that the entire last 16 kB of the area shows up as 0xff. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers
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