From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 20 04:25:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C902737B401 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2003 04:25:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scuzzy.ben.algroup.co.uk (pc252.siliconnetwork.co.uk [194.205.132.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDBAE43FD7 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2003 04:25:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@algroup.co.uk) Received: from algroup.co.uk (wiese.ben.algroup.co.uk [193.133.15.150]) by scuzzy.ben.algroup.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0C758B891 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2003 11:25:09 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <3EA28393.5020409@algroup.co.uk> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 12:25:07 +0100 From: Ben Laurie User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Current X-Enigmail-Version: 0.74.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Laptop update... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 11:25:13 -0000 None of you will remember I was having trouble with my laptop (IBM Thinkpad A31p) and RELENG_5_0. These have largely been fixed - the display works with the new X server, and APM works OK. I do have two changes in device.hints: hint.vga.0.at="isa" is commented out (though I've forgotten why!), and: hint.apm.0.disabled=1 has been changed to: hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 loader.conf has: hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1 snd_maestro3_load="YES" so, where does this leave me? Well, the display still dies if I am in X and the screen times out - I can reboot blind, but I can't get the screen back - am I missing a trick? Sound doesn't work (there is no entry in /dev). The onboard WiFi doesn't work (Intersil Prism2.5) - its recognised, but it won't associate. An old Lucent WaveLAN (with recent flash) card works fine, however. But most importantly, perhaps, when I do: portupgrade -Rra it almost never completes, because I get coredumps in cc (and occasionally weirder symptoms, like illegal instructions). I know this is usually attributed to RAM, but I've tried swapping that out - so, what else can I fiddle with that might affect this (and the other problems)? More info available on demand, of course. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff