Laptop update...

[Andre Guibert de Bruet]

On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, 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.
>
> 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.

Ben,

This is a farshot, but what CFLAGS did you compile your kernel, world and
XFree86 with?

Regards,

> Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
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