On 30 July 2018 at 18:53, Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All! > > I just upgraded to 8.0 on my "super vintage" IBM ThinkPad 600... my oldest > x86 laptop with NetBSD. > 6.x worked very well on it! I upgraded to 7.x some weeks ago and had issues > with X11, which I reported here but got no answer. Now I just upgraded again > to 8.0! Luckily, this time there are many binary pacakges for x86 > (8.0_2018Q1, Q2 is almost empty?) > > I have a couple of issues though, in the following "importance" order: > > 1) X11 is almost unusuable due to the mouse not moving > 2) with a little more heavy usage (I was removign packages, updating trees, > etc) the tlp0 interface started complaining about timeouts. Only a reboot > recovers! > tlp0: transmit timeout > tlp0: filter setup and transmit timeout > > the last one repeats forever... this did not happen on 6.x and neither 7.1 > for the short time I used it. > > 3) the PCMCI network card is work only in the uppter slot (I think to > remember I compiled for 6.x series a custom kernel with an option to enable) > 4) a hot reboot will usually hang when reaching "fdc0 at isa0 port > 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2" while a cold start goes through. Maybe it is > related with 3) > > Issue 1) makes the machine unusable though > What happens is very strange: X11 comes up correctly, including > windowmanager, but moving the mouse pointer appears to move it only > horizontally on a line! But in fact it is a display issue, I can blindly > click and move menus, so it works but it appears not, something which I have > never seen. > This happens both with the internal trackpoint as with an external mouse. > Strange thing is that the mouse already starts on the top line, instead of > centered, on startup! > > I see nothing suspicious: > > Current version of pixman: 0.34.0 > Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org > to make sure that you have the latest version. > Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, > (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, > (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. > (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Jul 30 19:50:06 2018 > (==) Using default built-in configuration (30 lines) > mtrr set failed: Function not implemented > The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: >> >> Error: Couldn't lookup keysym >> Symbol interpretation ignored >> Error: Couldn't lookup keysym >> Symbol interpretation ignored > > Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
I now really wish I'd kept my old ThinkPad 560 :) That is pretty wacky... Can you edit your xorg.conf (or create one) and under the Section "Device" add: Option "HWCursor" "off" to see if that helps? As a data point you could also try extracting a copy of netbsd-6 with X11 into a subdir, then chroot into it and try starting X from there. If it still has the mouse display issue then its a kernel issue, otherwise X11... Do you have a netbsd-6 dmesg to compare where the various devices attach to see if there are any differences for tlp or the cardbus? David
