From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 1 17:06:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FEA937B40A for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 17:06:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adelaide.lemis.com (ACT133672-2.gw.connect.com.au [210.11.172.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12E2743F75 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 17:06:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@adelaide.lemis.com) Received: by adelaide.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 4402218114; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 21:58:22 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 21:58:22 +1000 From: Greg Lehey To: Peter Losher Message-ID: <20030801115822.GK767@adelaide.lemis.com> References: <200304051232.17119.plosher+freebsd.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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030729200042.P60317@luftpost.plosh.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with XFree 4.3/FreeBSD and a Inspiron 5100. X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 00:06:03 -0000 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: