Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:21:48 -0500 From: rafege@mail.com (Gary E. RAFE, Ph.D.) To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Update: 5.3-R on Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 Message-ID: <4192DACC.nailADD11RP62@mail.com>
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Here's a data point regarding the (current) NVIDIA 1.0-6113 driver for FreeBSD and Toshiba notebooks. Previously, FreeBSD 5.2.1-R, XFree86-4.3.0, and the 1.0-4365 driver worked perfectly at 1600x1200x16bpp on my Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100. Having upgraded recently to 5.3-R & X.org-3.7.0, I was compelled to install the NVIDIA 1.0-6113 driver, since the earlier release does not build on this system "out-of-the-box" (and without it, higher native display resolutions are not available). As noted here: <http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=32997>; recent Linux & FreeBSD NVIDIA drivers seem to be "broken" on Toshiba notebooks, particularly at higher (1600x1200) resolutions. In my case, I can get the native NVIDIA driver to operate at 1588x1200 resolution (16 bpp); when I ask for 1600x1200 in "xorg.conf", the display is unacceptably corrupted. I can live with a few missing millimeters from the display until a new driver is released. The other trouble I was seeing here with USB surviving across APM suspend/resume cycles is apparently resolved through the use of kernel modules: usb.ko is unloaded just prior to "apm -z", and /etc/rc.resume loads usb.ko back again when needed. -- Gary E. RAFE, Ph.D. <mailto:rafege@mail.com> Please note: HTML-encoded mail is discarded unread.
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