Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 08:38:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Laptop update... Message-ID: <20030420083614.Q50356@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> In-Reply-To: <3EA28393.5020409@algroup.co.uk> References: <3EA28393.5020409@algroup.co.uk>
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On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Ben Laurie wrote: > 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. Ben, This is a farshot, but what CFLAGS did you compile your kernel, world and XFree86 with? Regards, > Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > > Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ >
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