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Date:      Tue, 9 Mar 2004 13:26:52 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        thierry@herbelot.com
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.2.1 X problems with Vaio laptop
Message-ID:  <200403091326.52130.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200403090756.42049.thierry@herbelot.com>
References:  <1573.192.168.0.3.1078785659.squirrel@webmail.local> <200403090756.42049.thierry@herbelot.com>

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On Tuesday 09 March 2004 01:56 am, Thierry Herbelot wrote:
> > >Yes.  Try disabling DRM and seeing if it works better.
> >
> > I commented out the 'dri' option in my XF86Config and now everything is
> > fine.
>
> good catch : I had the same issue, and now I can use the firewire port and
> X11 at the same time on my notebook  thanks a bunch

It seems that many BIOS's do not route the VGA devices interrupt correctly.  
Try checking to see if your BIOS has a setting for 'Assign IRQ to VGA' or 
some such and if so make sure it is on.

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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