Problems with XFree 4.3/FreeBSD and a Inspiron 5100.

Greg Lehey grog at FreeBSD.org
Fri Aug 1 17:06:03 PDT 2003


On Monday, 28 July 2003 at 22:05:23 -0700, Peter Losher wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>
>> Check the mobile@ archives.  The URL for a beta driver for -CURRENT has
>> been posted a few times.  It requires a few hacks to get it to compile
>> on today's -CURRENT.  If need be, I can provide my diffs, though I'm not
>> sure they're correct.
>
> Thanks for the pointer, because of the flaky support for Cardbus in
> 5.1, I am still using 4.8-STABLE.

CardBus is much better under 5.1 than 4.8.  There are problems with
the Inspiron 5100, but that's not general.

> (Cardbus just locks up the system during boot)

This must depend on the card.  I haven't had that kind of problem.
What's the card?  When does it hang?

Greg
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