From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Oct 26 18:24:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from bofh.intranet.snsonline.net (CPE-61-9-137-28.vic.bigpond.net.au [61.9.137.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E66A37B408 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 18:24:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MEGALITH (megalith.intranet.snsonline.net [192.168.0.4]) by bofh.intranet.snsonline.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f9R1NQG37689; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:23:35 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from msergeant@snsonline.net) Message-ID: <002a01c15e86$197e22d0$0400a8c0@MEGALITH> From: "Mark Sergeant" To: "G.E. Rafe" , References: <200110261815.OAA02380@strange.eng.utoledo.edu> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 ? Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:24:08 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 just bought a laptop with one of the Trident CyberBlade XP's in them (Toshiba Portege 4000) and am in the middle of writing up a howto to get things working. To get the Card working you need to use the vesa driver rather than the trident in 4.1 as the trident driver does not support this card as yet. Once this is done I then noticed a problem when I am typing in X with double characters appearing when typing, to fix this I setup a cronjob to do a xkbset bo 50 evcer 30 minutes (For some reason it seemed to stop working after 30 minutes, if anyone else has an idea on what I can do to stop this occurence let me know). Bar that the sound, lan work fine. I have yet to play around to get the in built Wireless card working as I don't know what chipset it uses. If you want a copy of my X config let me know. Cheers, Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "G.E. Rafe" To: Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 4:15 AM Subject: Q: FreeBSD and Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 ? > Can list readers who own/use a recent Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 > comment on its compatibility with FreeBSD & XFree86 ? > > My search of the usual lists suggests that the Trident CyberBlade XP > video device may be problematic, even with the most recent XFree86 > release (4.1.0), since most of the Linux references seem to indicate > the need for a framebuffer device. > > Other observations (APM, USB, network, sound, modem) are appreciated. > -- > G.E. Rafe > rafege@switchboard.net > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message