Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 16:25:25 +0800 (MYT) From: Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com> To: John <john@starfire.mn.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with FreeBSD 4.8 on Compaq Armada M700 laptop Message-ID: <20040113162021.V336-100000@prophet.alphaque.com> In-Reply-To: <20040112080420.A60685@starfire.mn.org>
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On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, John wrote: > Despite the fact that the laptop compatibility base has an entry for this > machine that looks good for FreeBSD 5.0, I'm not having the best luck > that one might hope. i've got an Armada M300, which shares a lot of the same underlying hardware as the M700 and have run FreeBSD on it since 4.4R. i'm now on 4.9R with all devices (sound, external cdrom and floppy, screen at 32bit depth) working fine and dandy. > Jan 11 17:56:56 pearl /kernel: acd0: CDROM <Compaq CRN-8241B> at ata0-slave PIO > but I just get "device not configured" when I boot the GENERIC kernel > that was installed. /dev/acd0 does appear in the device directory, > and I ran MAKEDEV on it, just to make double sure. what kernel config file are you using ? > 2) APM also says "device not configured". Don't know if this works > with the MFS/installation kernel. i have just "device apm0" in me kernel, and it works fine and dandy. > 3) Even though xf86config seems to have correctly identified the adapter, > and it works nicely at 1024x768, I can't seem to get the color depth > working at anything other than 256. I have tried "startx -- -bpp 24" > and "startx -- -bpp 32" and "startx -- -bpp 16" but it doesn't seem to > matter. what's your XF86Config file like, especially your sync lines ? i'm using horizontal sync of 31.5-57.0 and a VerRefresh of 60. > Maybe I should try a binary upgrade to 4.9, now that it's out? I don't > currently have any reason to think that would help, but I haven't got > any other "go forward" ideas, either. i've had it working on my M300 on 4.8 as well, so 4.9 won't change anything. there's probably a misconfiguration in your kernel config (CDROM and APM) and X config files. Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) http://www.alphaque.com/ +==========================----oOO--(_)--OOo----==========================+ | for a in past present future; do | | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b." | | done; done | +=========================================================================+
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