On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 19:15:57 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: > At 11:10 AM 7/27/2003 +0930, you wrote: > >> On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 21:47:23 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: >>> I am having problems getting X set up properly on a laptop. Should >>> I post the question here or on the mobile list? >> >> Start here, but give some details. If this is a Dell Inspiron 5100, >> I'm working on it. > > Hi Greg and all:
You forgot to copy "and all". I'm doing it now.
> Laptop: Thinkpad iSeries 1300 > Video: Silicon Motion LynxEM+ chip > Screen: 800x600 hpa > > system: FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE > > Only the vga driver works, and not very well. Gives me only a 640x480 > display and the windows etc are not displayed properly (too large for the > display).
That's a window manager issue.
Well, both twm and windowmaker do it.........havent tried kde, gnome.
> This setup was configured using either xf86config or xf86cfg > -textmode. Using the "autodetect" selection froze the display, as > does trying to setup manually using the above and the silicon motion > driver. Killing X server doesnt work, have to reboot the machine.
Hmm. Anything unusual in /var/log/XFree86.0.log? I had this recently:
(==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xc0000,0x40000) was already clear
(WW) RADEON(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum
(II) RADEON(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
(==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0x0,0x1000) was already clear
(--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon Mobility M7 LW (AGP)" (ChipID = 0x4c57)
(--) RADEON(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xf0000000
(--) RADEON(0): MMIO registers at 0xe0100000
(==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xe0100000,0x80000) was already clear
(--) RADEON(0): VideoRAM: 16384 kByte (64-bit DDR SDRAM)
(==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xe0100000,0x80000) was already clear
(II) RADEON(0): CloneDisplay option not set -- defaulting to auto-detect
(II) RADEON(0): Primary Display == Type 2
(II) RADEON(0): Panel ID string: ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
(II) RADEON(0): Panel Size from BIOS: 65535x65535
*** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not *** be the reason for the server aborting.
Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting
This was on a Dell Inspiron 5100, and it's caused by incorrect mapping of the video BIOS. It would be interesting to see if you're having a similar problem.
well, I dont see anything like that, but, now it is crashing with the same message. But, it says:
"(II) Silicon Motion(0): U2C device "I2C bus:SAA 7111A" registered at address 0x48.
"(II) Silicon Motion(0): U2C device "I2C bus:SAA 7111A" removed.
***If unresolved symbols were reported above......(wont repeat it you know what the rest is I am sure)
Fatal Server Error: Caught Signal 11 Server Aborting.
that is where it crashes.
--karl
> This notebook works fine with suse 8.1, Red Hat 9, Knoppix 3.1, etc.
I also tried my laptop with Knoppix 3.1, and it worked fine. It's obviously a FreeBSD problem, and I'm currently trying to localize it.
> I did notice the XF86Config file is the old XFree 3.x series format, > apparently not the newer series 4.x format. (dont know if that is > significant).
Depends on where it came from. The log file is more interesting, and it'll tell you which of the myriad possible config files it uses.
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