From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Apr 15 6:31:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from pcnet1.pcnet.com (pcnet1.pcnet.com [204.213.232.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A007C37B42C for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 06:31:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: (from eischen@localhost) by pcnet1.pcnet.com (8.8.7/PCNet) id JAA24311; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 09:31:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 09:31:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen To: Trenton Schulz Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 and FreeBSD 4.3 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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