From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 11 03:25:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 594BA16A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 03:25:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from msgfe02.utad.utoledo.edu (msgfe02.utad.utoledo.edu [131.183.1.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00BED43D45 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 03:25:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rafege@mail.com) Received: from lmrmac.uhw.utoledo.edu ([131.183.85.137]) by msgfe02.utad.utoledo.edu with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:21:12 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:21:48 -0500 From: rafege@mail.com (Gary E. RAFE, Ph.D.) Organization: Rouillard & Rafe To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-ID: <4192DACC.nailADD11RP62@mail.com> User-Agent: nail 11.3 8/18/04 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Nov 2004 03:21:12.0378 (UTC) FILETIME=[7EC3F1A0:01C4C79D] Subject: Update: 5.3-R on Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: rafege@mail.com List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 03:25:41 -0000 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: 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. Please note: HTML-encoded mail is discarded unread.