Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 14:42:35 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Laptop update... Message-ID: <20030420114235.GA52124@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <3EA28393.5020409@algroup.co.uk> References: <3EA28393.5020409@algroup.co.uk>
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--Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 12:25:07PM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote: > None of you will remember I was having trouble with my laptop (IBM > Thinkpad A31p) and RELENG_5_0. >=20 > These have largely been fixed - the display works with the new X server, > and APM works OK. >=20 > I do have two changes in device.hints: >=20 > hint.vga.0.at=3D"isa" >=20 > is commented out (though I've forgotten why!), and: >=20 > hint.apm.0.disabled=3D1 >=20 > has been changed to: >=20 > hint.acpi.0.disabled=3D1 >=20 > loader.conf has: >=20 > hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=3D1 > snd_maestro3_load=3D"YES" >=20 > 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? >=20 > Sound doesn't work (there is no entry in /dev). >=20 > 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. >=20 I've got mine working by setting hw.cbb.start_memory=3D0xd8000 in /boot/loader.conf (or at run-time using sysctl(8)). This is on ThinkPad 600X. > But most importantly, perhaps, when I do: >=20 > portupgrade -Rra >=20 > 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. >=20 Replace your RAM. That may explain the X crashes too. I got mine working without problems with 4.3.0, the NeoMagic driver has even grew the X-Video extension in this version! Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+ooerUkv4P6juNwoRAt47AJ9PC0GG3PKoyix0sQmGOsVDYcf7+QCfasdx YLTo2AljoHCLBx2VUVVqDa8= =/8m8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z--
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