Hi David!
On 02/08/2018 16:16, David Brownlee wrote:
On 30 July 2018 at 18:53, Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote:
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
I now really wish I'd kept my old ThinkPad 560 :)
I think they are of similar vintage, but mine is a little larger and has
a different video card. Checking ThinkWiki yours has a broken Trident
driver, I have a NeoMagic driver which work(ed).
You should have kept it for the fun! and doesn't it have a nice keyboard
feeling? Sometimes I still love to code on it... open gvim or emacs and
go! of course... compiling takes some time :)
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?
I actually put it in the screen section, like this:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
Option "SWCursor" "on"
Option "HWCursor" "off"
EndSection
Nothing else, I had no xorg.conf
and yes! I have a mouse now. Does this mean HW support for the cursor
broke in a strange way?
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 I still need to do that or is the xorg.conf check enough? My hard
disk is small :-P This is also why I upgraded in-place. I suppose that
we know it is an X11 isse, or does HW cursor go through the kernel?
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?
Unluckily, no, I did not save one and I don't have the old kernel.
Perhaps I can dig up the old email where I got the suggestion and/or my
old 6.x series conf file. One thing at a time :)
Riccardo
