Laptop update...

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 12:25:07PM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
> None of you will remember I was having trouble with my laptop (IBM
> Thinkpad A31p) and RELENG_5_0.
> 
> These have largely been fixed - the display works with the new X server,
>  and APM works OK.
> 
> I do have two changes in device.hints:
> 
> hint.vga.0.at="isa"
> 
> is commented out (though I've forgotten why!), and:
> 
> hint.apm.0.disabled=1
> 
> has been changed to:
> 
> hint.acpi.0.disabled=1
> 
> loader.conf has:
> 
> hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1
> snd_maestro3_load="YES"
> 
> so, where does this leave me? Well, the display still dies if I am in X
> and the screen times out - I can reboot blind, but I can't get the
> screen back - am I missing a trick?
> 
> Sound doesn't work (there is no entry in /dev).
> 
> The onboard WiFi doesn't work (Intersil Prism2.5) - its recognised, but
> it won't associate. An old Lucent WaveLAN (with recent flash) card works
> fine, however.
> 
I've got mine working by setting hw.cbb.start_memory=0xd8000 in
/boot/loader.conf (or at run-time using sysctl(8)).  This is on
ThinkPad 600X.

> But most importantly, perhaps, when I do:
> 
> portupgrade -Rra
> 
> it almost never completes, because I get coredumps in cc (and
> occasionally weirder symptoms, like illegal instructions). I know this
> is usually attributed to RAM, but I've tried swapping that out - so,
> what else can I fiddle with that might affect this (and the other
> problems)? More info available on demand, of course.
> 
Replace your RAM.  That may explain the X crashes too.  I got
mine working without problems with 4.3.0, the NeoMagic driver
has even grew the X-Video extension in this version!


Cheers,
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