From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 21 08:33:39 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 3D63537B401 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 08:33:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postal1.es.net (postoffice1.gridpma.com [198.128.3.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 867DB43F93 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 08:33:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal1.es.net (Postal Node 1) with ESMTP id MUA74016; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 08:33:37 -0700 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 0458E5D04; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 08:33:37 -0700 (PDT) To: Ben Laurie In-Reply-To: Message from Ben Laurie of "Sun, 20 Apr 2003 12:25:07 BST." <3EA28393.5020409@algroup.co.uk> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 08:33:36 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20030421153337.0458E5D04@ptavv.es.net> cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: 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: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:33:39 -0000 > Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 12:25:07 +0100 > From: Ben Laurie > Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org > > 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" Should not be required. > is commented out (though I've forgotten why!), and: > > hint.apm.0.disabled=1 > > has been changed to: > > hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 I think you would be better off simply adding the acpi hint rather than modifying the APM entry, but this is cosmetic. I changed the apm line to hint.apm.0.disabled="0" > loader.conf has: > > hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1 > snd_maestro3_load="YES" On my T30 I have: hw.ata/atapi_dma="1" hw.cbb.start_memory="0x20000000" I tried hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range="1", but it did not seem to help. The sound on the T30 is an ICH3. To get it to work I added smbus support to the kernel. device smbus device ichsmb device smb device pcm > 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? See my response to Robert Watson's post for a work-around. > Sound doesn't work (there is no entry in /dev). Try turning on the SMBus as above. > > 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. Works fine for me. Is the kernel built with the wi driver? I normally load the driver (if_wi) at boot time. Does the card probe? If so, what is reported? Do you get a printout of the firmware level? > 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. This is disturbing as I have been seeing similar problems on my T30 for a week. Attempting to buildworld bombs after 3 or 4 minutes in various places. memtest86 found no memory problems. I have not run any CPU diagnostics, but was assuming a hardware problem. (I still am). Unlike my previous experience with this sort of thing, it seems to happen about the same whether the system is hot or cold. Has any A or T series ThinkPad owner built a new CURRENT system over the past week? +R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634