Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:49:18 +1030 From: Ian Moore <imoore@picknowl.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: albi <albi@scii.nl> Subject: Re: How to back-rev? Message-ID: <200501141649.26451.imoore@picknowl.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050111223129.A50823@starfire.mn.org> References: <20050111092004.A47739@starfire.mn.org> <41E3EFF2.60100@scii.nl> <20050111223129.A50823@starfire.mn.org>
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--nextPart1612666.VDjPX7F7sY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:01, John wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 04:25:38PM +0100, albi wrote: > > John wrote: > > > I think I may have been too eager to go to Major Release 5 of FreeBSD. > > > I'm having a lot of trouble with my laptop - with my WIFI cards > > > freezing the system, and trying to make the swith from XFree86 > > > to Xorg. > > > > if i were you i would backup your data and try a fresh 5.3 install, > > one other thing to try first is to boot without ACPI > > You are right, albi! Turning off ACPI took care of the lock up. Thanks! > > I do miss the power management, though. Now I need to figure out > how to turn off just the part that is causing the problem. > > I am currently trying to remove all the XFree86 and kde modules from > 5.2.1 so that I can put in the Xorg stuff from 5.3. If there's a > procedure for that somewhere, that'd be awesome. /usr/ports/Updating - I followed the instructions there when I upgraded my= =20 5.2.1-RELEASE system to 5.3 & it worked like a charm. Do make sure you read 20040723 & that you have device io in your kernel. Oh, and be sure to read the 20041229 entry if you install the latest kde. Cheers, =2D-=20 Ian GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc --nextPart1612666.VDjPX7F7sY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBB52RufITqkXhImmIRAls1AKDPsRB8Ig7XVAG5ccarnQU/Q4zwbACgjC7p ek0OWUuCIS//EU+usMoTBNg= =L18f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1612666.VDjPX7F7sY--
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