Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 19:04:34 -0800 From: Ben Lovett <blovett@bsdguru.com> To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8k and ATI Rage Mobility 128 Message-ID: <20020108190434.A817@bsdguru.com> In-Reply-To: <1010288609.25239.28.camel@vpn92.ece.cmu.edu>; from allbery@ece.cmu.edu on Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 10:43:24PM -0500 References: <20020105190148.A7553@bsdguru.com> <1010288609.25239.28.camel@vpn92.ece.cmu.edu>
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I believe Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@ece.cmu.edu) scribbled this:
> On Sat, 2002-01-05 at 22:01, Ben Lovett wrote:
> > I have been running FreeBSD on my I8K since June of 2001, with XFree86
> > 4.x on a ATI Rage Mobility 128 video card. And, because I opted to get
> > the 1600x1200 resolution screen I have been running at that since then.
> > But... because I tend to value my eyesight, I would like to decrease the
> > resolution to something like 1280x1024. That all works great, until I
> > decide to switch to the console, and then the display fades to white and
> > I have to power off the machine without a shutdown :-(
> >
> > So, as to my question.. Does anyone have a system like this running at a
> > resolution like what I am looking for? As to my system setup. I am
> > running 4.4-STABLE built on December 19, with XFree86 4.1.0 patchlevel
> > 7.
>
> My 5000e with 1600x1200 display does that sometimes; it's less common
> with recent XFree86 patchlevels, and in fact I can currently only
> trigger it by doing a suspend/resume while X is running. (Even if I
> switch to a text VC before suspending.)
I am able to suspend while X is running, even if I am in X when
suspending. The only thing that happens that is odd if I suspend while
in X is the top 1/8" of the screen is a kind of plaid pattern. That is
easily fixed by switching to the console and back to X.
TTYL
--
Ben Lovett <blovett@bsdguru.com>
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