From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jul 29 13:32:55 2002 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 961A537B400 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 13:32:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postal1.es.net (postal1.es.net [198.128.3.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11A8E43E65 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 13:32:53 -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 GQF37091 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 13:32:52 -0700 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E96475D03 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 13:32:51 -0700 (PDT) To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Problems with IBM ThinkPad T30 1400x1050 display? Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 13:32:51 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20020729203251.E96475D03@ptavv.es.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have a shiny new T30 which is driving me bats. It's almost wonderful, but I have one FreeBSD show-stopper that I need to fix, work-around, or surrender. (And I love this box too much to surrender easily.) The problem is that the display goes crazy from time to time. I start X, Gnome, and Enlightenment just fine and it looks wonderful. But, if the display is turned off by time-out (APM) or manually pressing Fn-F3, the display will sometimes return to "normal" and some times come up with what I can only call horizontal sync problems. I see parts of the display repeated at various intervals across the screen. Once the display goes into this state, it is hard to get it back other than by re-booting. Even dropping back to a VTY does not help. Playing with vidcontrol will occasionally get it back, but I have not found a reliable incantation to do the trick. I also had the video go bad during the installation after configuring X. After that the text display was all messed up and I had to bail out and re-start the sysinstall. Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas on working about it. I hope to try running it with 1280x1024 display and see it it makes a difference. 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message