Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 10:30:12 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: X on a TP560 Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970708102218.3888H-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com>
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Hey folks! Massive progress made since last night. With a little help from Nate I've got networking going, I've found the mouse, I've compiled a kernel with apm in it (though I haven't fiddled with that yet) and I've got an X login screen with XFree86-3.3. This is cool! I have a feeling I'd best write down everything I've done soon, the pccard stuff wasn't completely documented -- or at least I didn't quite find the stuff at kindergarten- level that I needed to figure it out. :-) Anyway, I'm standing in front of the last hurdle, X. I wandered the linux laptop page and found this site: http://www-lj.eb.com/~tdarugar/docs/tp560.html This guy has Linux running on a Thinkpad 560 with the TFT screen and it's working really well for him. With XFree86-3.3, you don't need the cy9382 program to get the BIOS stuff right, it just works. Anyway, at this URL there's an XF86Config file for XF86-3.3 that seems to work great. Anyway, here we are at the final hurdle. When I try to log in from the xdm banner, it attempts to get in, I get that "hound's tooth" pattern across the top of the screen, then wham, back to the login banner. Switching to a vt console shows that xsm dumped core. I don't know anything about xsm, I've never needed to! I installed XF86-3.3 from the ports tree. I'm at a bit of a loss for how to proceed. Any suggestions? Has anyone else tried 3.3? I also tried grabbing xsm from my desktop station, which is running 3.2. Same problem, xsm dumped core again. Thanks, Brian
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