From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 20 00:17:31 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 4F47116A4CE for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:17:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [65.173.111.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D091643D5D for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:17:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i9K0HRH1027379 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:17:27 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id i9K0HRA6027376 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:17:27 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:17:27 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: mobile@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041019180402.Q27262@wonkity.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.6 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:17:27 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Thinkpad T42p X Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:17:31 -0000 Through a series of pretty much unplanned events, a brand-new Thinkpad T42p (2373-6YU) has come into my possession. This is a 1.7G Pentium-M system with a 1024x768 screen. It has been remarkably cooperative with 5.3beta7. Xorg came up with DRI and direct rendering, and it works fine, except for a couple of seemingly-minor but possibly important things: The X root window is the default X gray-dotted background. fluxbox and fluxbox-devel cannot change it, nor can 'xsetroot -bg blue', nor icewm. They all act like they've changed it, but it does not change. Possibly a related matter: the X pointer sometimes reverts to the default X pointer instead of the window manager's arrow. Removing AGP from the kernel resulted in no mouse function, either in X or the console. Booting with ACPI disabled seems to make no difference, nor does commenting out Load "dri" in xorg.conf. Any suggestions on correcting this would be appreciated. After/if I can get these things fixed, I'll put an entry for this machine on FLCL. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA