Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 17:28:49 +0800 From: Yong Liu <yongliu@public.bta.net.cn> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Notebook Problem Message-ID: <34069651.330E@public.bta.net.cn>
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I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.2 on a Twinhead 9133TZ notebook PC w/ the folloing configuration: Pentium 133/16M Memory/1.3G HD 12.1" TFT Display (Supports 800x600 at 60Hz non-interlaced) Trident Cyber 9385 card (2M memory) I also have a NE-2000 compatible PCMCIA card inserted into slot 1 into the PCMCIA dock. This dock has a Cirrus Logic PCMCIA controller built-in. The poblem I encountered are: 1. I could not make the PCMCIA recognized by FreeBSD. I reconfigured the kernel to include the PCCARD controllers and devices according the LINT config template. I also added the ed0 driver. It complains that "/dev/card0 not configured." when I run the "pccardc" command. BTW, this PCMCIA card really works fine under Win95. If changing the card may overcome this problem, I have a D-Link DE650 PCMCIA ethernet card at hand. 2. I have installed the XFree86 3.3.1 on my notebook. It runs good under the VGA16 mode when I set the following config: Video: VGA Chipset: Generic Card: Unsupported VGA Monitor: Standard 640x480 H-Refresh: 35.4 V-Refresh: 50-90 If I set the chipset to cyber938x, the screen gets a very low resolution with big dots. I tried the following configuration too: Video: SVGA Chipset: cyber938x Card: Trident TGUI9680 (generic) Monitor: Extended Super VGA (800x600 at 60Hz ...) H-Refresh: 31.5,35.4,... V-Refresh: 50-130 An what I got was a black screen after the "startx" command. But when I tried to switch between ttyv9 (graphic) and other ttys using the "CTL-ALT-F?" key combinations, I could see the xterm and xclock windows for a very short time (about 0.1 sec) and the screen went black again. I have read all the on-line documents, readmes and tried almost anything I could think out of. Could anybody give me some hints on these strange stuff? Or is FreeBSD is not so good as other free UNIX clones like Linux ? Your happy or bad experiences with FreeBSD on a notebook are also highly welcomed. Thank you in advance.
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