Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:53:18 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Karl Agee <kdagee@owt.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group? Message-ID: <20030728032318.GO45069@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20030727190858.030af838@pop3.owt.com> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20030724214606.026ee978@pop3.owt.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20030724214606.026ee978@pop3.owt.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20030727190858.030af838@pop3.owt.com>
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On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 19:15:57 -0700, Karl Agee wrote:
> At 11:10 AM 7/27/2003 +0930, you wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 21:47:23 -0700, Karl Agee wrote:
>>> I am having problems getting X set up properly on a laptop. Should
>>> I post the question here or on the mobile list?
>>
>> Start here, but give some details. If this is a Dell Inspiron 5100,
>> I'm working on it.
>
> Hi Greg and all:
You forgot to copy "and all". I'm doing it now.
> Laptop: Thinkpad iSeries 1300
> Video: Silicon Motion LynxEM+ chip
> Screen: 800x600 hpa
>
> system: FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE
>
> Only the vga driver works, and not very well. Gives me only a 640x480
> display and the windows etc are not displayed properly (too large for the
> display).
That's a window manager issue.
> This setup was configured using either xf86config or xf86cfg
> -textmode. Using the "autodetect" selection froze the display, as
> does trying to setup manually using the above and the silicon motion
> driver. Killing X server doesnt work, have to reboot the machine.
Hmm. Anything unusual in /var/log/XFree86.0.log? I had this recently:
=20
(=3D=3D) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xc0000,0x40000) was already =
clear
(WW) RADEON(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum
(II) RADEON(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
(=3D=3D) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0x0,0x1000) was already clear=
=20
(--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon Mobility M7 LW (AGP)" (ChipID =3D 0=
x4c57)
(--) RADEON(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xf0000000
(--) RADEON(0): MMIO registers at 0xe0100000
(=3D=3D) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xe0100000,0x80000) was alrea=
dy clear
(--) RADEON(0): VideoRAM: 16384 kByte (64-bit DDR SDRAM)
(=3D=3D) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xe0100000,0x80000) was alrea=
dy clear
(II) RADEON(0): CloneDisplay option not set -- defaulting to auto-detect
(II) RADEON(0): Primary Display =3D=3D Type 2
(II) RADEON(0): Panel ID string: =FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=
=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF=FF
(II) RADEON(0): Panel Size from BIOS: 65535x65535
=20
*** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not
*** be the reason for the server aborting.
=20
Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting
This was on a Dell Inspiron 5100, and it's caused by incorrect mapping
of the video BIOS. It would be interesting to see if you're having a
similar problem.=20
> This notebook works fine with suse 8.1, Red Hat 9, Knoppix 3.1, etc.
I also tried my laptop with Knoppix 3.1, and it worked fine. It's
obviously a FreeBSD problem, and I'm currently trying to localize it.
> I did notice the XF86Config file is the old XFree 3.x series format,
> apparently not the newer series 4.x format. (dont know if that is
> significant).
Depends on where it came from. The log file is more interesting, and
it'll tell you which of the myriad possible config files it uses.
Greg
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