From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Aug 17 4:56:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from kawoserv.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (kawoserv.kawo2.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.180.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A50F937B40D for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 04:56:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de) Received: from fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (root@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.181.148]) by kawoserv.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA17780; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 13:56:09 +0200 Received: (from alex@localhost) by fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f7HBuFn40144; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 13:56:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from alex) Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 13:56:14 +0200 From: Alexander Langer To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handbook section for laptops? Message-ID: <20010817135614.A40117@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> References: <20010817131831.A26007@lpt.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010817131831.A26007@lpt.ens.fr>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 01:18:31PM +0200 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 28 CA 4C 46 5B D3 A8 A8 E3 BA F3 4E 60 7D 7F X-PGP-at: finger alex@big.endian.de X-Verwirrung: Dieser Header dient der allgemeinen Verwirrung. Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thus spake Rahul Siddharthan (rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in): > X11 -- while the card is often detected without problem, setting up > the monitor section correctly is tricky. The standard XFree86 config > programs only give options for CRT monitors so it's not clear what is > applicable to a laptop. I could write up what I did, with borrowings > from linux laptop sites. Errrr, I just set up usual 1024x768 settings for mine, works great. > PCMCIA -- this gave me some trouble (though it works fine now) and > doesn't seem to be covered in the handbook. I could borrow basic > info from the manpages and write up the specific things I needed to > do. Same here, but that was my fault. I'm now using PCMCIA with the default config from latest -STABLE, and everything works ffine. > Modems -- usually internal modems are winmodems, but how does one find > out? If I try to test it with ppp, I just lock up the machine and > only a hard reboot cures it. I have a winmodem as well, but I don't use it, so I don't have any experience. > apm -- I haven't got it working properly yet. Haven't investigated > much since it's low priority right now, but some handbook information > would be nice. You probably have - as myself - a laptop that doesn't support APM any more, since it does ACPI. Try -CURRENT if you want sleep/resume support. -CURRENT is even nicer vor PCCard, since it does CardBus correctly. Alex > > - Rahul. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message