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Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 01:33:35 +0200
From: Jan Henrik Radl <gateway@image.dk>
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Yong Liu wrote:

> Subject: Notebook Problem
> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 17:28:49 +0800
> From: Yong Liu <yongliu@public.bta.net.cn>
> Organization: Unisoft Technology Co. Ltd.
> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
>
> I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.2 on a Twinhead 9133TZ notebook PC w/ the
> folloing configuration:
>
> Pentium 133/16M Memory/1.3G HD
>
> 12.1" TFT Display (Supports 800x600 at 60Hz non-interlaced)
> Trident Cyber 9385 card (2M memory)
>
> I also have a NE-2000 compatible PCMCIA card inserted into slot 1 into
> the PCMCIA dock. This dock has a Cirrus Logic PCMCIA controller
> built-in.
>
> The poblem I encountered are:
>
> 1. I could not make the PCMCIA recognized by FreeBSD. I reconfigured the
> kernel to include the PCCARD controllers and devices according the LINT
> config template. I also added the ed0 driver. It complains that
> "/dev/card0 not configured." when I run the "pccardc" command. BTW, this
> PCMCIA card really works fine under Win95. If changing the card may
> overcome this problem, I have a D-Link DE650 PCMCIA ethernet card at
> hand.
>
> 2. I have installed the XFree86 3.3.1 on my notebook. It runs good under
> the VGA16 mode when I set the following config:
>
> Video: VGA
> Chipset: Generic
> Card: Unsupported VGA
> Monitor: Standard 640x480
> H-Refresh: 35.4
> V-Refresh: 50-90
>
> If I set the chipset to cyber938x, the screen gets a very low resolution
> with big dots.
>
> I tried the following configuration too:
>
> Video: SVGA
> Chipset: cyber938x
> Card: Trident TGUI9680 (generic)
> Monitor: Extended Super VGA (800x600 at 60Hz ...)
> H-Refresh: 31.5,35.4,...
> V-Refresh: 50-130
>

I'd a simlar problem with my ThinkPad 760EL, do you have the extend VGA to
fullscreen option set? If so try disabling it - it worked for me!

> An what I got was a black screen after the "startx" command. But when I
> tried to switch between ttyv9 (graphic) and other ttys using the
> "CTL-ALT-F?" key combinations, I could see the xterm and xclock windows
> for a very short time (about 0.1 sec) and the screen went black again.
>
> I have read all the on-line documents, readmes and tried almost anything
> I could think out of.
>
> Could anybody give me some hints on these strange stuff? Or is FreeBSD
> is not so good as other free UNIX clones like Linux ? Your happy or bad
> experiences with FreeBSD on a notebook are also highly welcomed.
>

On my ThinkPad 760EL it works great with 2.2.1 and PAO. Allmost everything
besides my token-ring PCCARD works.

> Thank you in advance.

WYL
Jan Henrik Radl