Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 09:31:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: Trenton Schulz <twschulz@gloria.cord.edu> Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 and FreeBSD 4.3 Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010415092707.23795A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.32.0104142340430.13509-100000@gloria.cord.edu>
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On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Trenton Schulz wrote: > On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > > Hi, > > I recently got a i8000 for work and so far I am fairly pleased with the success > > I am having. Currently the internal modem and ethernet work, USB works and X is > > running. > > Just wondering? But does your Inspiron 8000 use the ATI Mobility and have > a builtin DVD drive? I had a couple problems that I can't seem to figure > out, and haven't annoyed me enough to do something about it... Mine does. > With X, sometimes, when I'm leaving the graphics mode(switching consoles or > ending my X session) the screen does a fade to a nice bright white and > locks up the machine, causing me to swear and hard reboot the notebook. > This is with XFree86 4.0.2 on up (I couldn't get a configuration to work > with XFree86-3). I'm wondering if it's my hardware or XFree86-4 not as > ready for primetime status. I have the same problem. Daniel (O'Connor) sent me his XFree86 config file; I'll try that and see if it still exhibits this behaviour. > My DVD drive isn't detected unless I wait for about a minute to boot the > kernel (by setting the autoboot to 60). If I don't wait that long then I > get "ad0 identity retires exceeded" or something along those lines (don't > have the dmesg handy :( Hmm, I don't have this problem, though I think I've always had a CD in the drive whenever I've booted. -- Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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