Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:16:32 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Horst_G=FCnther_Burkhardt_III?= <horst@sxemacs.org> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [Fwd: X hassles - "Device not found"] Message-ID: <48F75AD0.2000304@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1224170091.10591.25.camel@horst-tla> References: <1224067336.10591.17.camel@horst-tla> <48F5E51B.7020207@freebsd.org> <1224170091.10591.25.camel@horst-tla>
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Horst Günther Burkhardt III wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 06:42 -0600, Peter Grehan wrote: >> Hi Horst, >> >>> (WW) xf86EnableIO 5 >>> (II) xf86EnableIO: ffffffff >>> (WW) Can't map IO space! >> Try a 'sysctl hw.ofwfb.relax_mmap=1' before starting X. The Xorg ATI >> driver attempts to mmap more memory than the card reports, and the OFW >> syscons driver thinks this is an error. >> >> However, since X hasn't fixed this in years now, it's probably time to >> remove the check since every user trips up on it :( > > sysctl trick worked. > > Next problem is "fbdevhw". > > Error log: > > (EE) R128: Failed to load module "fbdevhw" (module does not exist, 0) > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. There is a configuration knob in the xorg.conf file you need to set: Option "UseFBDev" "off" > Also, is there a way to make 'sysctl hw.ofwfb.relax_mmap=1' happen on > startup, or be the default state? See sysctl.conf(5). > (Further question, anyone had luck getting ACPI Suspend or display sleep > to work with macs?) There is no suspend support on macs, and may never be. We could probably at least add cpufreq support, though. DPMS (display sleep) should work fine. -Nathan
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