From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Jun 26 22:42:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [130.64.1.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E41B37B407 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 22:42:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pir@pir.net) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 15F865-0006aH-00 for mobile@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 01:42:41 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 01:42:40 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: XFree86 4, compaq armarda and corrupted virtual consoles Message-ID: <20010627014240.A25051@pir.net> Reply-To: mobile@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: mobile@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-fish: < 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've been trying to help a friend set up FreeBSD 4.3-R and XFree86-4 (latest package) on his compaq armarda 4xxx (?) series laptop. The graphics chipset is an S3 virge MX, and we have X running ok but when it starts it corrupts the textmode consoles. There is a comment about this in the XFree86 mailing lists, dated back to 4.0.1, but with no fix and Linux with XFree86 4.x.x apparently does not have this problem. Before I spend hours trying to work out what is going on has anyone seen this, or as a workaround is there a good way to reset the graphics hardware so the text console can be used again ? As a side note, this machine needed the pcic0 memory shifting up to 0xd4000 to stop it hanging on pcmcia inserts, but pcmcia seems to work fine after that. Thanks, P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message