ASUS U46E laptop brightness
Hi all Could you please help me with a little annoying problem concerning laptop backlight? I've got ASUS U46E laptop running FreeBSD 9-STABLE amd64. The problem is that backlight is always set to maximum value. Pressing Fn+F5 (brightness down) has no effect, just yielding the following to /var/log/messages: ACPI Error: Result stack is empty! State=0xfe00017fa800 (20110527/dswstate-113) ACPI Exception: AE_AML_NO_RETURN_VALUE, Missing or null operand (20110527/dsutils-695) ACPI Exception: AE_AML_NO_RETURN_VALUE, While creating Arg 0 (20110527/dsutils-821) ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.GFX0.GCBL] (Node 0xfe000181f600), AE_AML_NO_RETURN_VALUE (20110527/psparse-560) What I've tried: 1) Flashed the latest BIOS version from ASUS website (ver301) 2) Upgraded OS to the latest STABLE version (last upgrade Aug 30 2013) 3) Loading acpi_asus module: # kldload acpi_asus # sysctl -a | grep asus # 4) Loading acpi_video module: # sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.active=1 hw.acpi.video.lcd0.active: 0 - 0 # sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.fullpower=60 hw.acpi.video.lcd0.fullpower: 100 - 60 # sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.economy=60 hw.acpi.video.lcd0.economy: 77 - 60 # sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.brightness=60 hw.acpi.video.lcd0.brightness: 60 - 60 Values are changed but brightness doesn't 5) Using acpi_call utility (not sure what value should be changed, tried acpi_call -p '\_SB_.PCI0.GFX0.GCBL' and acpi_call -p '\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.EC0_._Q0E' -- both resulting in Unknown object type '0') # uname -a FreeBSD toysrv 9.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.2-PRERELEASE #2 r255810: Fri Sep 27 14:27:49 EEST 2013 oomka@toysrv:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TOYSRV amd64 # acpidump -dt u46e.asl [gzipped file attached] I used to run i386 FreeBSD on this laptop -- the brightness control was okay on it. There were often kernel panics on that architecture so I've switched to amd64. Panics disappeared and the things work fine so far, except the screen brightness. I know that my problem isn't critical when I'm working on daylight or with external LCD display, but when I have to work at the laptop at night -- this spotlight really drives me crazy. Thank you in advance for your help. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately
Am 17.08.2013 03:22, schrieb Polytropon: On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:07:25 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: What keyboard / laptop has the key code '150' map to 'go to sleep' ? My Sun Type 7 USB keyboard has the Copy key at code 150... :-) In my case it is a Lenovo X121e. Regards, Matthias ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately
At the moment it is not clear to me at which layer the issue is originated. In fact the acpi_ibm module doesn't work completely for the Lenovo X121e (brightness control with Fn+F8/F7 nonfunctional), so the issue might be related to this. I shall file a PR during the day. Kind regards, Matthias Zitat von Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org: Right, but this sounds like some bug to send upstream. Or at least patch in our port(s) for this stuff. What keyboard / laptop has the key code '150' map to 'go to sleep' ? -adiran On 16 August 2013 17:09, Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.org wrote: Hi, a short update on this. I just found out: at least in Gnome 2 the behavior can be prevented by using the gconf-settings tool, changing the value of the key /apps/gnome-power-manager/buttons/suspend from suspend to nothing. Seems like some ubuntu users had the same issue as I found the workaround there. Kind regards, Matthias Am 16.08.2013 08:44, schrieb Adrian Chadd: Hi! I'm glad someone else is seeing this! I have the same behaviour with KDE4 on my T60 and T400. If I go to run amiwm (because hey, Workbench is awesome!) it doesn't happen. .. and bah, I wish the resume worked for you. It works fine for me on T42i, T60, T400. -adrian On 15 August 2013 23:32, Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.org wrote: Hello, I have a Lenovo X121e running Current with X and the Gnome desktop. Beside other issues[1] there is a strange behavior of Gnome-Desktop (and GDM too). When I press Fn without any additional key, the device immediately goes to sleep. As the X121e cannot resume properly from sleep, this forces me to reboot. This problem appears to be only exist when using Gnome / GDM. Pure X with TWM doesn't have this issue. I already tried to re-map the Fn key (I found in some mailing this might have the keycode 150) to a less dangerous key: $ xmodmap -e keycode 150 = Delete this brought no change. Has anyone an idea if Gnome re-maps the keys in some way or how I can disable this? At the moment this is the only blocker to use this Laptop for daily work, as I tend to accidently touch the Fn key more often than I want to reboot ;-) Thanks in advance kind regards, Matthias [1] http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=544740+551865+/usr/local/www/db/text/2013/freebsd-current/20130707.freebsd-current ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately
Hello, I have a Lenovo X121e running Current with X and the Gnome desktop. Beside other issues[1] there is a strange behavior of Gnome-Desktop (and GDM too). When I press Fn without any additional key, the device immediately goes to sleep. As the X121e cannot resume properly from sleep, this forces me to reboot. This problem appears to be only exist when using Gnome / GDM. Pure X with TWM doesn't have this issue. I already tried to re-map the Fn key (I found in some mailing this might have the keycode 150) to a less dangerous key: $ xmodmap -e keycode 150 = Delete this brought no change. Has anyone an idea if Gnome re-maps the keys in some way or how I can disable this? At the moment this is the only blocker to use this Laptop for daily work, as I tend to accidently touch the Fn key more often than I want to reboot ;-) Thanks in advance kind regards, Matthias [1] http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=544740+551865+/usr/local/www/db/text/2013/freebsd-current/20130707.freebsd-current ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately
Hello, I have a Lenovo X121e running Current with X and the Gnome desktop. Beside other issues[1] there is a strange behavior of Gnome-Desktop (and GDM too). When I press Fn without any additional key, the device immediately goes to sleep. As the X121e cannot resume properly from sleep, this forces me to reboot. This problem appears to be only exist when using Gnome / GDM. Pure X with TWM doesn't have this issue. I already tried to re-map the Fn key (I found in some mailing this might have the keycode 150) to a less dangerous key: $ xmodmap -e keycode 150 = Delete this brought no change. Has anyone an idea if Gnome re-maps the keys in some way or how I can disable this? At the moment this is the only blocker to use this Laptop for daily work, as I tend to accidently touch the Fn key more often than I want to reboot ;-) Thanks in advance kind regards, Matthias [1] http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=544740+551865+/usr/local/www/db/text/2013/freebsd-current/20130707.freebsd-current ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately
Hi! I'm glad someone else is seeing this! I have the same behaviour with KDE4 on my T60 and T400. If I go to run amiwm (because hey, Workbench is awesome!) it doesn't happen. .. and bah, I wish the resume worked for you. It works fine for me on T42i, T60, T400. -adrian On 15 August 2013 23:32, Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.org wrote: Hello, I have a Lenovo X121e running Current with X and the Gnome desktop. Beside other issues[1] there is a strange behavior of Gnome-Desktop (and GDM too). When I press Fn without any additional key, the device immediately goes to sleep. As the X121e cannot resume properly from sleep, this forces me to reboot. This problem appears to be only exist when using Gnome / GDM. Pure X with TWM doesn't have this issue. I already tried to re-map the Fn key (I found in some mailing this might have the keycode 150) to a less dangerous key: $ xmodmap -e keycode 150 = Delete this brought no change. Has anyone an idea if Gnome re-maps the keys in some way or how I can disable this? At the moment this is the only blocker to use this Laptop for daily work, as I tend to accidently touch the Fn key more often than I want to reboot ;-) Thanks in advance kind regards, Matthias [1] http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/**getmsg.cgi?fetch=544740+** 551865+/usr/local/www/db/text/**2013/freebsd-current/20130707.** freebsd-currenthttp://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=544740+551865+/usr/local/www/db/text/2013/freebsd-current/20130707.freebsd-current __**_ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/**mailman/listinfo/freebsd-**questionshttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-** unsubscr...@freebsd.org freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately
Hi Adrian, Zitat von Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org: Hi! I'm glad someone else is seeing this! I have the same behaviour with KDE4 on my T60 and T400. If I go to run amiwm (because hey, Workbench is awesome!) it doesn't happen. .. and bah, I wish the resume worked for you. It works fine for me on T42i, T60, T400. Thanks for your response. The fact it happens also in KDE appears interesting... so the root cause might exist in a component on top of pure X which is shared by Gnome and KDE. I will definitely do more investigation on this at the weekend. Hopefully some time suspend/resume will also work on the newer Lenovo models (I would be curious if the wakeup problem is Intel/KMS only or if also the NVidia models e.g. T430 NVS are affected). Kind regards, Matthias -- Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately
On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 13:25:41 +0200, Matthias Petermann wrote: Hi Adrian, Zitat von Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org: Hi! I'm glad someone else is seeing this! I have the same behaviour with KDE4 on my T60 and T400. If I go to run amiwm (because hey, Workbench is awesome!) it doesn't happen. .. and bah, I wish the resume worked for you. It works fine for me on T42i, T60, T400. Thanks for your response. The fact it happens also in KDE appears interesting... so the root cause might exist in a component on top of pure X which is shared by Gnome and KDE. I have tested a Lenovo R61i running Xfce, and I don't experience the strange behaviour desribed. However, using the xev event tester, the keycode for the Fn key is being displayed as 227, and the KeyPress event is held (!) until the key is released, which means KeyPress and KeyRelease happen immediately after each other. Because my IBM T60p is still in the ICU, I can't test this, but I would assume to get a similar result. Hopefully some time suspend/resume will also work on the newer Lenovo models (I would be curious if the wakeup problem is Intel/KMS only or if also the NVidia models e.g. T430 NVS are affected). It would also be nice if as much as possible would work on the older models (including the docking stations), because Thinkpads seem to live much longer (and therefore will probably many more years in productive use), compared to their crappy competitors on the laptop market. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately
Hi, I also had problem with Fn key. I'm using Lenovo T430 and Enlightenment desktop environment. I resolved this issue by unbinding XF86Sleep in Enlightenment settings. Cheers, Grzegorz Blach ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately
... xf86sleep as a keypress id? -adrian On 16 August 2013 04:48, Grzegorz Blach ma...@roorback.net wrote: Hi, I also had problem with Fn key. I'm using Lenovo T430 and Enlightenment desktop environment. I resolved this issue by unbinding XF86Sleep in Enlightenment settings. Cheers, Grzegorz Blach ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately
On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:24:51 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: ... xf86sleep as a keypress id? Yes, there are many of XF86... key symbols that can be associated to key codes. Probably this is some setting in Gnome or KDE (but not in other environments). You can use xev to check which symbol is associated to which key (or key combination, if this creates a new unique key event). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately
Hi, Am 16.08.2013 13:58, schrieb Polytropon: I have tested a Lenovo R61i running Xfce, and I don't experience the strange behaviour desribed. However, using the xev event tester, the keycode for the Fn key is being displayed as 227, and the KeyPress event is held (!) until the key is released, which means KeyPress and KeyRelease happen immediately after each other. Because my IBM T60p is still in the ICU, I can't test this, but I would assume to get a similar result. thanks, I just used xev (with X and only TWM). It reports the Fn key as keycode 150. Looks like this is different across the Thinkpad models. It would also be nice if as much as possible would work on the older models (including the docking stations), because Thinkpads seem to live much longer (and therefore will probably many more years in productive use), compared to their crappy competitors on the laptop market. :-) Agree :-) Regards, Matthias ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately
Hi, a short update on this. I just found out: at least in Gnome 2 the behavior can be prevented by using the gconf-settings tool, changing the value of the key /apps/gnome-power-manager/buttons/suspend from suspend to nothing. Seems like some ubuntu users had the same issue as I found the workaround there. Kind regards, Matthias Am 16.08.2013 08:44, schrieb Adrian Chadd: Hi! I'm glad someone else is seeing this! I have the same behaviour with KDE4 on my T60 and T400. If I go to run amiwm (because hey, Workbench is awesome!) it doesn't happen. .. and bah, I wish the resume worked for you. It works fine for me on T42i, T60, T400. -adrian On 15 August 2013 23:32, Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.org mailto:matth...@d2ux.org wrote: Hello, I have a Lenovo X121e running Current with X and the Gnome desktop. Beside other issues[1] there is a strange behavior of Gnome-Desktop (and GDM too). When I press Fn without any additional key, the device immediately goes to sleep. As the X121e cannot resume properly from sleep, this forces me to reboot. This problem appears to be only exist when using Gnome / GDM. Pure X with TWM doesn't have this issue. I already tried to re-map the Fn key (I found in some mailing this might have the keycode 150) to a less dangerous key: $ xmodmap -e keycode 150 = Delete this brought no change. Has anyone an idea if Gnome re-maps the keys in some way or how I can disable this? At the moment this is the only blocker to use this Laptop for daily work, as I tend to accidently touch the Fn key more often than I want to reboot ;-) Thanks in advance kind regards, Matthias [1] http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=544740+551865+/usr/local/www/db/text/2013/freebsd-current/20130707.freebsd-current ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org mailto:freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately
Right, but this sounds like some bug to send upstream. Or at least patch in our port(s) for this stuff. What keyboard / laptop has the key code '150' map to 'go to sleep' ? -adiran On 16 August 2013 17:09, Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.org wrote: Hi, a short update on this. I just found out: at least in Gnome 2 the behavior can be prevented by using the gconf-settings tool, changing the value of the key /apps/gnome-power-manager/buttons/suspend from suspend to nothing. Seems like some ubuntu users had the same issue as I found the workaround there. Kind regards, Matthias Am 16.08.2013 08:44, schrieb Adrian Chadd: Hi! I'm glad someone else is seeing this! I have the same behaviour with KDE4 on my T60 and T400. If I go to run amiwm (because hey, Workbench is awesome!) it doesn't happen. .. and bah, I wish the resume worked for you. It works fine for me on T42i, T60, T400. -adrian On 15 August 2013 23:32, Matthias Petermann matth...@d2ux.org wrote: Hello, I have a Lenovo X121e running Current with X and the Gnome desktop. Beside other issues[1] there is a strange behavior of Gnome-Desktop (and GDM too). When I press Fn without any additional key, the device immediately goes to sleep. As the X121e cannot resume properly from sleep, this forces me to reboot. This problem appears to be only exist when using Gnome / GDM. Pure X with TWM doesn't have this issue. I already tried to re-map the Fn key (I found in some mailing this might have the keycode 150) to a less dangerous key: $ xmodmap -e keycode 150 = Delete this brought no change. Has anyone an idea if Gnome re-maps the keys in some way or how I can disable this? At the moment this is the only blocker to use this Laptop for daily work, as I tend to accidently touch the Fn key more often than I want to reboot ;-) Thanks in advance kind regards, Matthias [1] http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=544740+551865+/usr/local/www/db/text/2013/freebsd-current/20130707.freebsd-current ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Laptop Fn key causes X (Gnome 2) to sleep immediately
On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:07:25 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: What keyboard / laptop has the key code '150' map to 'go to sleep' ? My Sun Type 7 USB keyboard has the Copy key at code 150... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Acer Laptop Bightness and Volume Hotkeys not working!
On 07/03/13 01:30, Mike C. wrote: On 06/23/13 23:57, CeDeROM wrote: Hey :-) For my Dell laptop the backlight is controlled by hardware, unlike sound keys where you can assign them to use xf86audiovolumeup/down (or similar) to interact with mixer. I would search for automatic backlight hothey that would block manual control, or BIOS settings (like automatic backlight) or maybe new BIOS would fix that problem..? Best regards, Tomek -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info I don't hae any BIOS settings for this... I have the most recent version of my bios but this Ultrabooks don't really have many options :) I tried the xbrightness port, but no luck however I don't really understand the error: xbrightness 1.0 xbrightness: unable to open default display. Could this be related to the fact that I've built Xorg with: WITH_NEW_XORG=true WITH_KMS=true Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Acer Laptop Bightness and Volume Hotkeys not working!
On 06/23/13 23:57, CeDeROM wrote: Hey :-) For my Dell laptop the backlight is controlled by hardware, unlike sound keys where you can assign them to use xf86audiovolumeup/down (or similar) to interact with mixer. I would search for automatic backlight hothey that would block manual control, or BIOS settings (like automatic backlight) or maybe new BIOS would fix that problem..? Best regards, Tomek -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info I don't hae any BIOS settings for this... I have the most recent version of my bios but this Ultrabooks don't really have many options :) The keys work on windows, and I don't find any driver related to it on the website... very odd... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Is There Any Buyable Laptop for FreeBSD 9.1 That Is Simple to Set Up?
I have been looking for ages for a simple system on which to do the following:- a. Unix-Based. b. Do Programming in C. (I like gedit if possible). c. Xfce as GUI. d. Production Work:- 1. OpenOffice (not LibreOffice). 2. The GIMP. 3. Inkscape. 4. Something with CAD and 3-D Rendering. 5. Film and Sound Editing. 6. Databases: PostgreSL, MySQL, and db2.e. 7. Internet Work, including uploads to my website with FTP, my web host using the latest version of Apache. f. Good Graphics and Media. g. Good wireless connectivity through an external hotspot - currently using Sprint (not the best or the worst) 3G (more reliable than 4G) OverdrivePro but may upgrade when something better appears. If I did not have to travel a good deal, I should be content with a desktop computer, but cannot escape from laptops. I have tried many versions of Linux and some of the offshoots of FreeBSD, and only FreeBSD and DragonflyBSD seem close to what I think is best. FreeBSD wins because DragonflyBSD is just too esoteric at the moment. After over a month of effort, I freely confess that installing FreeBSD 9.1 is beyond my capability. I have a Toshiba Satellite L755 with 32-bit Intel® Core™ i3-2350M CPU @ 2.30GHz × 4 Processor at the moment, and this is nowhere mentioned on any list of FreeBSD-capable laptops that I can find. Indeed, after ruthlessly searching the web and talking to dozens of people, none of whom have any close experience with FreeBSD, it seems that there are very few laptops which are capable of trouble-free installation of FreeBSD. In the case of my Toshiba Satellite L755, I believe that the wireless driver is not friendly to the idea. As I currently use Ubuntu 12.10 (native - wiped it in attempted to instal FreeBSD 9.1, and then re-installed after failure of said installation of FreeBSD), I ran the following command and received:- $ lspci | grep Network 02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01) And, running $ iwconfig produces wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:OverdriveProA1F Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point: 84:DB:2F:35:9A:1F Bit Rate=18 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr:off Power Management:off Link Quality=70/70 Signal level=-40 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:8 Missed beacon:0 lono wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. And this:- $ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04) 00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b4) 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev b4) 00:1c.6 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 7 (rev b4) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM65 Express Chipset Family LPC Controller (rev 04) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 04) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04) 02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet (rev c1) Well, the installation of FreeBSD floundered at the configuration stage of the GUI, and then stopped at the command line when the ports could not be installed because of lack of connectivity. Oh, well - no need to waste time discussing this because my present computer is not good enough in other respects for what I should like to do. Therefore, my question is ultimately:- Is there any 1764-bit laptop that will readily support FreeBSD 9.1 with wireless connectivity to an external hotspot? Many thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Is There Any Buyable Laptop for FreeBSD 9.1 That Is Simple to Set Up?
-Edwin Hale thucidy...@yahoo.com writes: Therefore, my question is ultimately:- Is there any 1764-bit laptop that will readily support FreeBSD 9.1 with wireless connectivity to an external hotspot? There are many. I've had good luck with Lenovos. I'm writing this from a friend's T530 and I own an X220, but neither have a 17 screen. A first step is to search the archives of the mobile, acpi and questions mailing lists. There are also some helpful threads on the forums and http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/. Once you have a system specd out, verify that the video and wireless cards are supported. Searching for something like FreeBSD Centrino Advanced-N 6205 should do it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Is There Any Buyable Laptop for FreeBSD 9.1 That Is Simple to Set Up?
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:44 AM, Joseph Mingrone j...@ftfl.ca wrote: -Edwin Hale thucidy...@yahoo.com writes: Therefore, my question is ultimately:- Is there any 1764-bit laptop that will readily support FreeBSD 9.1 with wireless connectivity to an external hotspot? You may wish to consider running PC-BSD. It seems there has been work to support RTL8188CE, but I'm not sure it's available in 9.1. Buying a supported wireless card on ebay will cost about 10 to 20 dollars US, and replacing it takes 5 to 15 minutes. Some of the laptops have a list of 'allowed' hardware burned into the BIOS, which may cause an issue booting with a different wireless card, but it's probably not the situation on your L755. -- Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA 510-830-7975 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Acer Laptop Bightness and Volume Hotkeys not working!
Hey :-) For my Dell laptop the backlight is controlled by hardware, unlike sound keys where you can assign them to use xf86audiovolumeup/down (or similar) to interact with mixer. I would search for automatic backlight hothey that would block manual control, or BIOS settings (like automatic backlight) or maybe new BIOS would fix that problem..? Best regards, Tomek -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Acer Laptop Bightness and Volume Hotkeys not working!
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 01:57:06 +0200, CeDeROM wrote: Hey :-) For my Dell laptop the backlight is controlled by hardware, unlike sound keys where you can assign them to use xf86audiovolumeup/down (or similar) to interact with mixer. Same here for a Dell, an IBM and a Lenovo laptop: The brightness keys are hard-wired and act without OS interaction, whereas the multimedia keys are normal keys (check with xev program) and can be programmed to do anything (like issuing mixer commands). I would search for automatic backlight hothey that would block manual control, or BIOS settings (like automatic backlight) or maybe new BIOS would fix that problem..? Sometimes you can adjust brightness in BIOS setup. If you don't need to change brightness all the time, this seems to be the most comfortable situation. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Acer Laptop Bightness and Volume Hotkeys not working!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have an Acer (S3-391) laptop, its a recent model with an SSD and HHD for a very nice price. I'm running FreeBSD 10-current, because of the wireless driver. I notice I can't use the brightness hotkeys (Fn + Left/Right Arrows) even with acpi_video... Als has the subject states I can't use audio hotkeys too (Fn + UP/DOWN arrows), but I'm not sure if I would need to load any extra module to do this! Can anybody advice on this? Many Thanks, Mike -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRxj6TAAoJEGKyFhaKt9g3LuIP/1NGHMeE5EwmRUOjWoYZs2aP 1P2FobRlELoX2GI09/fsE8en7Yis5T3P1IK/l2qCM0XkI52uQs51iRNiMvYkjyjH JvGsKDNrj5R0ca+3XtHOaLRfVgTD4lSL2DJFF1ztKwoA4Y/fhcxhcOUGP+Wv10dx f8p7LynS3aQcQQFbCSvRzTf/+qcaKnRhBVmsSIJ9ZPPkaHwr+vFB8qUYNMhldFM9 MINSdryrox3dYcv8yr7XSk10mcXBmuKZD/r3OSkAxak74bXZveXVXHS2MyE8Wh3P rYHo+lcXO443It/fRJGFHZA/Yqd4ZQOEjzguo/s58ewd4+0oE/vLPW2EO8TjVc3j 5nquNmVsrF5lU5RheCGpLKyLuXk8MhdsSEXcHYKu4Ei8hknwsUHbasSzOxIvuRtu 3xAPV19ZYtJyK/GHMcPCPYfgB7/3FIcmCpfJrohTdT8ys8nMK+fbx+0I8HMeiJId 3ym0Dydb2d1xhBwAcnVn2OxAufWPpsWlJidQx6n3r5oB5txeIcqCHk4Or88lo0oZ sGh0CF611DuxAD+X+aglyxHBRaSOthngqIDDSt3C0AnLt29c1cQMYc5mRhEnDmFj J5apaa+3yfgRXRUT2a5M/okuW/tBkxTli4ravToXA3cOSo89vs91WQ0VN5bAQjwb ztHte9UXAZKz7ciHJILt =N8Xt -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Acer Laptop Bightness and Volume Hotkeys not working!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/23/13 00:17, Miguel Clara wrote: I have an Acer (S3-391) laptop, its a recent model with an SSD and HHD for a very nice price. I'm running FreeBSD 10-current, because of the wireless driver. I notice I can't use the brightness hotkeys (Fn + Left/Right Arrows) even with acpi_video... Als has the subject states I can't use audio hotkeys too (Fn + UP/DOWN arrows), but I'm not sure if I would need to load any extra module to do this! Can anybody advice on this? Many Thanks, Mike The sound hotkey problem is fixed, I forgot to set my keyboard Layout properly in KDE setting it to Acer Laptop fixed this! But I still have the brightness issue, and xbacklight gives me this: xbacklight -get No outputs have backlight property -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRxkK2AAoJEGKyFhaKt9g3sBIP/0aj4VmZYZhTsNqqFP8jr3Xa t/im5s/WGCgxT2tLOpCCA41OMPxUad+578dBrWu7P6FuLuVsMnErjvaBpliVtQZz 6ImMfKVakiNrLTVTBiAOwVpvEgZZQqtpI0IjeSYifuh/yy1gE5bzlZLumVzmoHCS QwsPxRxmvVLQ3/62IgXs+NPpEr9p2m9zOdysXD13G8o/MXz5p6etZlovXT61HV2D lMf9yMcZpTmLMjVd5/QGQz5deyNOWfxmJhG2a5LW8JtITG7xIT2gflkbm4J6Rj9B 7c4X1MzbX852IJHFY9b8hFj/9I7+dDnFZj3qpihCL78qsNd/wXg3h+Y0me1vHxEZ Vjo5Z4AQoL4E1U5cFkTieBPt8avYIuCztUSk6YQh1VIvS6s9/jSl36F3xeX7kkx6 AOzdzUJGpRU1Xe2vpbFfFwemDUAl73PKIf7I5KWXXCD85RHshw1di6HYohAubGkr j4cssQ0inQ8667vi4IGeTjzpgGTvvICiN+hjbw8DQhKkN/GbYf0D2uQ5TWhKe/pH CjT9LDQH1bKzVdzTG2i5a1W8Z+WT1tsvl0u+Tb5Lwma7bynILKgdyz7WiQRgc6M4 g2gZAl/A3mlJ0pXDfDnCU6IftywqcW+fVAcBkl2hPMb5xIiRaE4gZELJi3mOLwBm +PkaE5rWW5l9wjX7MsKd =1wfh -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
setting VGA output from laptop
Hi, Is there any way to configure VGA width output from one laptop ? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: setting VGA output from laptop
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 19:24:26 +0200 Subject: setting VGA output from laptop From: Xavier xavierfreebsdquesti...@gmail.com Hi, Is there any way to configure VGA width output from one laptop ? Authoritative answer: Maybe It's not clear =exactly= what you're asking. The standard FreeBSD video driver supports 80 and 90 column wide text displays, with the caveat that 90-colum mode may not be usable on some laptops. If you're dealing with a graphics display, minimal VGA is 640x480 pixels. virtually every even remotely moddern display supports 800x600 as well, many support 1024x768, and a fair number go to even higher resolutions. 'man vidcontrol' will tell you how to find out what is supported on _your_ machine. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: setting VGA output from laptop
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 01:40:14PM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: Hi Robert, Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 19:24:26 +0200 Subject: setting VGA output from laptop From: Xavier xavierfreebsdquesti...@gmail.com Hi, Is there any way to configure VGA width output from one laptop ? Authoritative answer: Maybe It's not clear =exactly= what you're asking. The standard FreeBSD video driver supports 80 and 90 column wide text displays, with the caveat that 90-colum mode may not be usable on some laptops. If you're dealing with a graphics display, minimal VGA is 640x480 pixels. virtually every even remotely moddern display supports 800x600 as well, many support 1024x768, and a fair number go to even higher resolutions. 'man vidcontrol' will tell you how to find out what is supported on _your_ machine. For example if I try to set 40x25 text mode with VIDCONTROL(1) it don't work. And 'vidcontrol -i mode | grep T' show this mode. I don't understand why if 40x25 mode if supported, VIDCONTROL(1) don't set it ? Thanks, see you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: laptop fan control via FreeBSD
On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:19:39 +0100, Xavier wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 05:04:36PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: Hi Polytropon, On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:55:23 +0100, Xavier wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 03:13:58PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote: Hi Fabian, Xavier xavierfreebsdquesti...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to control the on and off the fan on a laptop using FreeBSD? It depends on the laptop. On mine it works: fk@r500 ~ $sysctl -ad | grep fan dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_speed: Fan speed dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_level: Fan level dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan: Fan enable My output of 'sysctl -ad | grep fan' don't show these parameters. Why ? Because, my BIOS don't support these aparameters ? Another answer ? For laptops, you usually load a kernel module for interfacing with the specific ACPI functions, like acpi_ibm.ko. There are several others, but see man acpi_ibm for some impressions. Yes, but I have an acer Aspire 5634WLMi, and: % ls /boot/kernel/acpi* /boot/kernel/acpi_asus.ko /boot/kernel/acpi_panasonic.ko /boot/kernel/acpi_asus.ko.symbols /boot/kernel/acpi_panasonic.ko.symbols /boot/kernel/acpi_dock.ko /boot/kernel/acpi_sony.ko /boot/kernel/acpi_dock.ko.symbols /boot/kernel/acpi_sony.ko.symbols /boot/kernel/acpi_fujitsu.ko/boot/kernel/acpi_toshiba.ko /boot/kernel/acpi_fujitsu.ko.symbols /boot/kernel/acpi_toshiba.ko.symbols /boot/kernel/acpi_hp.ko /boot/kernel/acpi_video.ko /boot/kernel/acpi_hp.ko.symbols /boot/kernel/acpi_video.ko.symbols /boot/kernel/acpi_ibm.ko/boot/kernel/acpi_wmi.ko /boot/kernel/acpi_ibm.ko.symbols/boot/kernel/acpi_wmi.ko.symbols I don't have an acer kernel module for ACPI. Two options: If you can derive from the documentation of your Acer laotop if it is _compatible_ to one of the implementations provided by the system, use that instead. You can do trial error to see if one of the modules works, even though the name is different. In worst case, load them all (by using * wildcard) and check with kldstat. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: laptop fan control via FreeBSD
Xavier xavierfreebsdquesti...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to control the on and off the fan on a laptop using FreeBSD? It depends on the laptop. On mine it works: fk@r500 ~ $sysctl -ad | grep fan dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_speed: Fan speed dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_level: Fan level dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan: Fan enable Fabian signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: laptop fan control via FreeBSD
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 03:13:58PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote: Hi Fabian, Xavier xavierfreebsdquesti...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to control the on and off the fan on a laptop using FreeBSD? It depends on the laptop. On mine it works: fk@r500 ~ $sysctl -ad | grep fan dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_speed: Fan speed dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_level: Fan level dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan: Fan enable My output of 'sysctl -ad | grep fan' don't show these parameters. Why ? Because, my BIOS don't support these aparameters ? Another answer ? Thanks, see you ! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: laptop fan control via FreeBSD
On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:55:23 +0100, Xavier wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 03:13:58PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote: Hi Fabian, Xavier xavierfreebsdquesti...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to control the on and off the fan on a laptop using FreeBSD? It depends on the laptop. On mine it works: fk@r500 ~ $sysctl -ad | grep fan dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_speed: Fan speed dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_level: Fan level dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan: Fan enable My output of 'sysctl -ad | grep fan' don't show these parameters. Why ? Because, my BIOS don't support these aparameters ? Another answer ? For laptops, you usually load a kernel module for interfacing with the specific ACPI functions, like acpi_ibm.ko. There are several others, but see man acpi_ibm for some impressions. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: laptop fan control via FreeBSD
Xavier xavierfreebsdquesti...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 03:13:58PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote: Hi Fabian, Xavier xavierfreebsdquesti...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to control the on and off the fan on a laptop using FreeBSD? It depends on the laptop. On mine it works: fk@r500 ~ $sysctl -ad | grep fan dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_speed: Fan speed dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_level: Fan level dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan: Fan enable My output of 'sysctl -ad | grep fan' don't show these parameters. Why ? Because, my BIOS don't support these aparameters ? Another answer ? acpi_ibm(4) is a kernel module that isn't loaded by default. Depending on your hardware you may have to kldload a different module. You could try: ls /boot/kernel/acpi_*.ko and then kldload the module you think makes sense for your hardware. Note that not all modules have fan control, though. As I only use IBM and Lenovo laptops I'm not familiar with the other modules. Fabian signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: laptop fan control via FreeBSD
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 05:04:36PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: Hi Polytropon, On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:55:23 +0100, Xavier wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 03:13:58PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote: Hi Fabian, Xavier xavierfreebsdquesti...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to control the on and off the fan on a laptop using FreeBSD? It depends on the laptop. On mine it works: fk@r500 ~ $sysctl -ad | grep fan dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_speed: Fan speed dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_level: Fan level dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan: Fan enable My output of 'sysctl -ad | grep fan' don't show these parameters. Why ? Because, my BIOS don't support these aparameters ? Another answer ? For laptops, you usually load a kernel module for interfacing with the specific ACPI functions, like acpi_ibm.ko. There are several others, but see man acpi_ibm for some impressions. Yes, but I have an acer Aspire 5634WLMi, and: % ls /boot/kernel/acpi* /boot/kernel/acpi_asus.ko /boot/kernel/acpi_panasonic.ko /boot/kernel/acpi_asus.ko.symbols /boot/kernel/acpi_panasonic.ko.symbols /boot/kernel/acpi_dock.ko /boot/kernel/acpi_sony.ko /boot/kernel/acpi_dock.ko.symbols /boot/kernel/acpi_sony.ko.symbols /boot/kernel/acpi_fujitsu.ko/boot/kernel/acpi_toshiba.ko /boot/kernel/acpi_fujitsu.ko.symbols /boot/kernel/acpi_toshiba.ko.symbols /boot/kernel/acpi_hp.ko /boot/kernel/acpi_video.ko /boot/kernel/acpi_hp.ko.symbols /boot/kernel/acpi_video.ko.symbols /boot/kernel/acpi_ibm.ko/boot/kernel/acpi_wmi.ko /boot/kernel/acpi_ibm.ko.symbols/boot/kernel/acpi_wmi.ko.symbols I don't have an acer kernel module for ACPI. Thanks, see you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: laptop fan control via FreeBSD
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 05:07:07PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote: Hi Fabian, Xavier xavierfreebsdquesti...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 03:13:58PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote: Hi Fabian, Xavier xavierfreebsdquesti...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to control the on and off the fan on a laptop using FreeBSD? It depends on the laptop. On mine it works: fk@r500 ~ $sysctl -ad | grep fan dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_speed: Fan speed dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_level: Fan level dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan: Fan enable My output of 'sysctl -ad | grep fan' don't show these parameters. Why ? Because, my BIOS don't support these aparameters ? Another answer ? acpi_ibm(4) is a kernel module that isn't loaded by default. Depending on your hardware you may have to kldload a different module. You could try: ls /boot/kernel/acpi_*.ko Yes, but I hace an acer ... Thanks, see you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: do I need agp(4) on my amd64 laptop
On 25 November 2012 06:11, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: From ill...@gmail.com Sat Nov 24 16:09:29 2012 On 22 November 2012 06:19, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: It is not clear for me from the agp(4) man page, whether I need this device in the kernel or not. ... hostb4@pci0:0:24:3: class=0x06 card=0x chip=0x11031022 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]' device = 'K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI vgapci0@pci0:1:5:0: class=0x03 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x791f1002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI' device = 'RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]' class = display subclass = VGA bge0@pci0:16:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x171314e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express' class = network subclass = ethernet siba_bwn0@pci0:48:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x1371103c chip=0x431214e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'BCM4311 802.11a/b/g' class = network cbb0@pci0:2:4:0:class=0x060700 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x04761180 rev=0xb6 hdr=0x02 vendor = 'Ricoh Co Ltd' device = 'RL5c476 II' class = bridge subclass = PCI-CardBus You bring up a good point. Your laptop is almost the same as mine, the graphics chip is connected via PCI Express. I should see if it builds runs without agp. Looks like drm requires agp for the kernel to link correctly. Oh well. ... drm_agpsupport.o: In function `drm_agp_free_memory': /home/svn/9.1/src/sys/dev/drm/drm_agpsupport.c:(.text+0xcba): undefined reference to `agp_fi nd_device' /home/svn/9.1/src/sys/dev/drm/drm_agpsupport.c:(.text+0xcd4): undefined reference to `agp_fr ee_memory' drm_agpsupport.o: In function `drm_agp_init': /home/svn/9.1/src/sys/dev/drm/drm_agpsupport.c:(.text+0xdb8): undefined reference to `agp_fi nd_device' /home/svn/9.1/src/sys/dev/drm/drm_agpsupport.c:(.text+0xe2f): undefined reference to `agp_ge t_info' *** [kernel] Error code 1 ... ok, I get it. I think I built drm and agp together, hence I haven't encountered this error. Do you use radeon video driver? Do you use radeondrm device in kernel? This only place I see this is in src/sys/amd64/conf/NOTES. My understanding is that to get drm working with the radeon driver, I need to add radeondrm to the kernel, but again, I'm not sure. Yes, I use the radeon driver in xorg, I have radeondrm in kernel. I don't think you need to build it in, as loading the module should work, I just got in the habit a while back can't seem to quit now. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: do I need agp(4) on my amd64 laptop
rev=0x00 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI' device = 'SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI hostb1@pci0:0:24:0: class=0x06 card=0x chip=0x11001022 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]' device = 'K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI hostb2@pci0:0:24:1: class=0x06 card=0x chip=0x11011022 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]' device = 'K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI hostb3@pci0:0:24:2: class=0x06 card=0x chip=0x11021022 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]' device = 'K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI hostb4@pci0:0:24:3: class=0x06 card=0x chip=0x11031022 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]' device = 'K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI vgapci0@pci0:1:5:0: class=0x03 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x791f1002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI' device = 'RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]' class = display subclass = VGA bge0@pci0:16:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x171314e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express' class = network subclass = ethernet siba_bwn0@pci0:48:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x1371103c chip=0x431214e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'BCM4311 802.11a/b/g' class = network cbb0@pci0:2:4:0:class=0x060700 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x04761180 rev=0xb6 hdr=0x02 vendor = 'Ricoh Co Ltd' device = 'RL5c476 II' class = bridge subclass = PCI-CardBus You bring up a good point. Your laptop is almost the same as mine, the graphics chip is connected via PCI Express. I should see if it builds runs without agp. Mine is HP Compaq 6715s. As far as I can see building a kernel with agp(4) doesn't make it appear in dmesg, which to me indicates I don't need it. But I'm not sure... I'm having wierd problems with X and I'm trying to understand better what's going on. Anton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: do I need agp(4) on my amd64 laptop
rev=0x00 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI' device = 'SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI hostb1@pci0:0:24:0: class=0x06 card=0x chip=0x11001022 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]' device = 'K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI hostb2@pci0:0:24:1: class=0x06 card=0x chip=0x11011022 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]' device = 'K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI hostb3@pci0:0:24:2: class=0x06 card=0x chip=0x11021022 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]' device = 'K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI hostb4@pci0:0:24:3: class=0x06 card=0x chip=0x11031022 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]' device = 'K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI vgapci0@pci0:1:5:0: class=0x03 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x791f1002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI' device = 'RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]' class = display subclass = VGA bge0@pci0:16:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x171314e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express' class = network subclass = ethernet siba_bwn0@pci0:48:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x1371103c chip=0x431214e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'BCM4311 802.11a/b/g' class = network cbb0@pci0:2:4:0:class=0x060700 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x04761180 rev=0xb6 hdr=0x02 vendor = 'Ricoh Co Ltd' device = 'RL5c476 II' class = bridge subclass = PCI-CardBus You bring up a good point. Your laptop is almost the same as mine, the graphics chip is connected via PCI Express. I should see if it builds runs without agp. Looks like drm requires agp for the kernel to link correctly. Oh well. ... drm_agpsupport.o: In function `drm_agp_free_memory': /home/svn/9.1/src/sys/dev/drm/drm_agpsupport.c:(.text+0xcba): undefined reference to `agp_fi nd_device' /home/svn/9.1/src/sys/dev/drm/drm_agpsupport.c:(.text+0xcd4): undefined reference to `agp_fr ee_memory' drm_agpsupport.o: In function `drm_agp_init': /home/svn/9.1/src/sys/dev/drm/drm_agpsupport.c:(.text+0xdb8): undefined reference to `agp_fi nd_device' /home/svn/9.1/src/sys/dev/drm/drm_agpsupport.c:(.text+0xe2f): undefined reference to `agp_ge t_info' *** [kernel] Error code 1 ... ok, I get it. I think I built drm and agp together, hence I haven't encountered this error. Do you use radeon video driver? Do you use radeondrm device in kernel? This only place I see this is in src/sys/amd64/conf/NOTES. My understanding is that to get drm working with the radeon driver, I need to add radeondrm to the kernel, but again, I'm not sure. Anton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: do I need agp(4) on my amd64 laptop
hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]' device = 'K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI hostb4@pci0:0:24:3: class=0x06 card=0x chip=0x11031022 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]' device = 'K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI vgapci0@pci0:1:5:0: class=0x03 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x791f1002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI' device = 'RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]' class = display subclass = VGA bge0@pci0:16:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x171314e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express' class = network subclass = ethernet siba_bwn0@pci0:48:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x1371103c chip=0x431214e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'BCM4311 802.11a/b/g' class = network cbb0@pci0:2:4:0:class=0x060700 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x04761180 rev=0xb6 hdr=0x02 vendor = 'Ricoh Co Ltd' device = 'RL5c476 II' class = bridge subclass = PCI-CardBus You bring up a good point. Your laptop is almost the same as mine, the graphics chip is connected via PCI Express. I should see if it builds runs without agp. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: do I need agp(4) on my amd64 laptop
:24:2: class=0x06 card=0x chip=0x11021022 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]' device = 'K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI hostb4@pci0:0:24:3: class=0x06 card=0x chip=0x11031022 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]' device = 'K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI vgapci0@pci0:1:5:0: class=0x03 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x791f1002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI' device = 'RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]' class = display subclass = VGA bge0@pci0:16:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x171314e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express' class = network subclass = ethernet siba_bwn0@pci0:48:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x1371103c chip=0x431214e4 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'BCM4311 802.11a/b/g' class = network cbb0@pci0:2:4:0:class=0x060700 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x04761180 rev=0xb6 hdr=0x02 vendor = 'Ricoh Co Ltd' device = 'RL5c476 II' class = bridge subclass = PCI-CardBus You bring up a good point. Your laptop is almost the same as mine, the graphics chip is connected via PCI Express. I should see if it builds runs without agp. Looks like drm requires agp for the kernel to link correctly. Oh well. ... drm_agpsupport.o: In function `drm_agp_free_memory': /home/svn/9.1/src/sys/dev/drm/drm_agpsupport.c:(.text+0xcba): undefined reference to `agp_fi nd_device' /home/svn/9.1/src/sys/dev/drm/drm_agpsupport.c:(.text+0xcd4): undefined reference to `agp_fr ee_memory' drm_agpsupport.o: In function `drm_agp_init': /home/svn/9.1/src/sys/dev/drm/drm_agpsupport.c:(.text+0xdb8): undefined reference to `agp_fi nd_device' /home/svn/9.1/src/sys/dev/drm/drm_agpsupport.c:(.text+0xe2f): undefined reference to `agp_ge t_info' *** [kernel] Error code 1 ... -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
do I need agp(4) on my amd64 laptop
It is not clear for me from the agp(4) man page, whether I need this device in the kernel or not. The pciconf -lv output is below. Or do I need to show dmesg? Please advise Thanks Anton hostb0@pci0:0:0:0: class=0x06 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x79101002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI' device = 'RS690 Host Bridge' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI pcib1@pci0:0:1:0: class=0x060400 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x79121002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI' device = 'RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx)' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI pcib2@pci0:0:4:0: class=0x060400 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x79141002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI pcib3@pci0:0:5:0: class=0x060400 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x79151002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI' device = 'RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 1)' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI pcib4@pci0:0:6:0: class=0x060400 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x79161002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI' device = 'RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 2)' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI ahci0@pci0:0:18:0: class=0x01018f card=0x43801002 chip=0x43801002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI' device = 'SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA' class = mass storage subclass = ATA ohci0@pci0:0:19:0: class=0x0c0310 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x43871002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI' device = 'SB600 USB (OHCI0)' class = serial bus subclass = USB ohci1@pci0:0:19:1: class=0x0c0310 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x43881002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI' device = 'SB600 USB (OHCI1)' class = serial bus subclass = USB ohci2@pci0:0:19:2: class=0x0c0310 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x43891002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI' device = 'SB600 USB (OHCI2)' class = serial bus subclass = USB ohci3@pci0:0:19:3: class=0x0c0310 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x438a1002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI' device = 'SB600 USB (OHCI3)' class = serial bus subclass = USB ohci4@pci0:0:19:4: class=0x0c0310 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x438b1002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI' device = 'SB600 USB (OHCI4)' class = serial bus subclass = USB ehci0@pci0:0:19:5: class=0x0c0320 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x43861002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI' device = 'SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)' class = serial bus subclass = USB none0@pci0:0:20:0: class=0x0c0500 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x43851002 rev=0x14 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI' device = 'SBx00 SMBus Controller' class = serial bus subclass = SMBus atapci0@pci0:0:20:1:class=0x010182 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x438c1002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI' device = 'SB600 IDE' class = mass storage subclass = ATA hdac0@pci0:0:20:2: class=0x040300 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x43831002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI' device = 'SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)' class = multimedia subclass = HDA isab0@pci0:0:20:3: class=0x060100 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x438d1002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI' device = 'SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge' class = bridge subclass = PCI-ISA pcib5@pci0:0:20:4: class=0x060401 card=0x chip=0x43841002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x01 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI' device = 'SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge' class = bridge subclass = PCI-PCI hostb1@pci0:0:24:0: class=0x06 card=0x chip=0x11001022 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]' device = 'K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI hostb2@pci0:0:24:1: class=0x06 card=0x chip=0x11011022 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]' device = 'K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI hostb3@pci0:0:24:2: class=0x06 card=0x chip=0x11021022 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]' device = 'K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller' class = bridge subclass = HOST-PCI hostb4@pci0:0:24:3:
Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:28:22 +0100 Subject: Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain From: Idwer Vollering vid...@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, flash...@flashrom.org Another approach is to use an external SPI programmer: http://flashrom.org/Supported_programmers The 'downside' of this is that you need to take your laptop apart. ODM schematics of your laptop are found here: http://notebookschematic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/6515b_6715s.png Downloads for BIOS updates: http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=encc=usprodNameId=3356623prodTypeId=321957prodSeriesId=3368539swLang=13taskId=135swEnvOID=1093#120 and ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp55501-56000/sp6.exe My guess (I am not a HP service technician) is that you need ROM.CAB/Rom.bin from sp6.exe - you can use 7zip to extract Rom.bin This is probably way beyond my skills, but thanks anyway. Anton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:44:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Jakub Lach jakub_l...@mailplus.pl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain More civilised notebook manufactures usually provide also self booting (CD) image to update BIOS (e.g. Lenovo/ThinkPad). ok, I get the message, thanks. Anton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain
I've HP compaq 6715s laptop. It's all right with 10-current. I've got wireless and at one point I even managed to get flash working. My problem is with BIOS. Apparently it's wrong and John Baldwin provided me with a pci.c patch to get it to boot. There is an updated BIOS version, but so far I failed to get it installed. HP only provide MS and freedos executables. I tried BartPE - doesn't work. I tried plugging in a MS disk - doesn't work. The only think I haven't tried is getting a spare disk, installing freedos on it and then running the freedos executable from USB - what a fucking pain... For proper hardware (servers) HP provide images which are executed from management console, but not for laptops. I guess the idea that one might use their laptops for anything other than MS is so wild, that it never crossed their maid. Anyway, I think I've heard there are some laptops with no BIOS, is this true? Or perhaps there are brands where BIOS reflash is not such a great pain? I remember on Compaq Armada the BIOS was stored on disk and Compaq provided a floppy image to boot from and reflash BIOS. That was easy. Anything like this exist these days? Are there any EFI laptops? Any model people would recommend? Thanks Anton Another approach is to use an external SPI programmer: http://flashrom.org/Supported_programmers The 'downside' of this is that you need to take your laptop apart. ODM schematics of your laptop are found here: http://notebookschematic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/6515b_6715s.png Downloads for BIOS updates: http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=encc=usprodNameId=3356623prodTypeId=321957prodSeriesId=3368539swLang=13taskId=135swEnvOID=1093#120 and ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp55501-56000/sp6.exe My guess (I am not a HP service technician) is that you need ROM.CAB/Rom.bin from sp6.exe - you can use 7zip to extract Rom.bin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain
From cpgh...@cordula.ws Thu Oct 25 03:40:28 2012 Heh... ;-) (U)EFI is nothing new for us old farts: we've had OpenBoot[1] on Sun hardware for ages, and even though it didn't limit us w.r.t. the OS you wanted to boot (that's why you can install FreeBSD/sparc64 on used Sun machines), it had its issues too. Mainly that it needed a counter-part in hardware peripherals. E.g.: without F-Code in ROM, a PCI-based frame buffer wouldn't be usable there, because it wouldn't reply to the OpenBoot queries. The point is that firmware CAN be a mini-OS and more powerful than PC-BIOS. There's nothing wrong with that, and the flexibility of OFW/OpenBoot was for us sysadmins invaluable, esp. with diskless machines. What's wrong, is UEFI's DRM-scheme used to prevent non-signed code to be loaded... without mandating in the specs that the BIOS vendor MUST allow the device owner to add his/her own keys to it. That's the evil part of it. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware I'm probably missing something here. ia64 uses EFI, but there's nothing about checking for non-signed code. I can boot VMS, FreeBSD, linux, etc. And, by the way, firmware updates from EFI via e.g. USB flash drives is trivial on ia64. Perhaps what you are describing is not about the EFI specification iteself, but what different manufacturers add on top of it? Anton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain
On 25 Oct 2012, at 08:52, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I'm probably missing something here. ia64 uses EFI, but there's nothing about checking for non-signed code. I can boot VMS, FreeBSD, linux, etc. And, by the way, firmware updates from EFI via e.g. USB flash drives is trivial on ia64. Perhaps what you are describing is not about the EFI specification iteself, but what different manufacturers add on top of it? It's in the latest UEFI spec - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#Secure_boot . -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain
From br...@cran.org.uk Thu Oct 25 09:22:33 2012 On 25 Oct 2012, at 08:52, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I'm probably missing something here. ia64 uses EFI, but there's nothing about checking for non-signed code. I can boot VMS, FreeBSD, linux, etc. And, by the way, firmware updates from EFI via e.g. USB flash drives is trivial on ia64. Perhaps what you are describing is not about the EFI specification iteself, but what different manufacturers add on top of it? It's in the latest UEFI spec - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#Secure_boot . -- Bruce Cran fuck.. I'm out of touch. So this means I might not be able to boot freebsd at all on future ia64 boxes.. Anton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain
On 25 Oct 2012, at 09:40, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: So this means I might not be able to boot freebsd at all on future ia64 boxes.. Ignore the FUD - there will be an option to disable it in the firmware/BIOS settings. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:40:20 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote: From br...@cran.org.uk Thu Oct 25 09:22:33 2012 On 25 Oct 2012, at 08:52, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I'm probably missing something here. ia64 uses EFI, but there's nothing about checking for non-signed code. I can boot VMS, FreeBSD, linux, etc. And, by the way, firmware updates from EFI via e.g. USB flash drives is trivial on ia64. Perhaps what you are describing is not about the EFI specification iteself, but what different manufacturers add on top of it? It's in the latest UEFI spec - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#Secure_boot . -- Bruce Cran fuck.. I'm out of touch. So this means I might not be able to boot freebsd at all on future ia64 boxes.. There probably won't be much ia64 boxes in the future. You should worry to not be able to run FreeBSD on ARM, and maybe even later on normal x86 (amd64) hardware, if specific interested parties should get their will... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:38:48 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Anyway, I think I've heard there are some laptops with no BIOS, is this true? Per termini technici, yes. Some systems use EFI (or UEFI) instead of a BIOS. It's comparable to a much more advanced (than BIOS) micro-OS that initializes the hardware, connectes to the Internet, tells the manufacturer what you're doing and keeps limiting you in what you are allowed to install. :-) Heh... ;-) (U)EFI is nothing new for us old farts: we've had OpenBoot[1] on Sun hardware for ages, and even though it didn't limit us w.r.t. the OS you wanted to boot (that's why you can install FreeBSD/sparc64 on used Sun machines), it had its issues too. Mainly that it needed a counter-part in hardware peripherals. E.g.: without F-Code in ROM, a PCI-based frame buffer wouldn't be usable there, because it wouldn't reply to the OpenBoot queries. The point is that firmware CAN be a mini-OS and more powerful than PC-BIOS. There's nothing wrong with that, and the flexibility of OFW/OpenBoot was for us sysadmins invaluable, esp. with diskless machines. What's wrong, is UEFI's DRM-scheme used to prevent non-signed code to be loaded... without mandating in the specs that the BIOS vendor MUST allow the device owner to add his/her own keys to it. That's the evil part of it. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain
I've HP compaq 6715s laptop. It's all right with 10-current. I've got wireless and at one point I even managed to get flash working. My problem is with BIOS. Apparently it's wrong and John Baldwin provided me with a pci.c patch to get it to boot. There is an updated BIOS version, but so far I failed to get it installed. HP only provide MS and freedos executables. I tried BartPE - doesn't work. I tried plugging in a MS disk - doesn't work. The only think I haven't tried is getting a spare disk, installing freedos on it and then running the freedos executable from USB - what a fucking pain... For proper hardware (servers) HP provide images which are executed from management console, but not for laptops. I guess the idea that one might use their laptops for anything other than MS is so wild, that it never crossed their maid. Anyway, I think I've heard there are some laptops with no BIOS, is this true? Or perhaps there are brands where BIOS reflash is not such a great pain? I remember on Compaq Armada the BIOS was stored on disk and Compaq provided a floppy image to boot from and reflash BIOS. That was easy. Anything like this exist these days? Are there any EFI laptops? Any model people would recommend? Thanks Anton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:38:48 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote: There is an updated BIOS version, but so far I failed to get it installed. HP only provide MS and freedos executables. I tried BartPE - doesn't work. Maybe you can utilize the approach to create the typical DOS boot diskette and access it via attached USB floppy disk drive? I tried plugging in a MS disk - doesn't work. The only think I haven't tried is getting a spare disk, installing freedos on it and then running the freedos executable from USB - what a fucking pain... The idea with a disk could work, but seems a bit over- complicated for such a simple (yes, haha) task like updating the BIOS. For proper hardware (servers) HP provide images which are executed from management console, but not for laptops. I guess the idea that one might use their laptops for anything other than MS is so wild, that it never crossed their maid. That's because it doesn't exist. :-) Anyway, I think I've heard there are some laptops with no BIOS, is this true? Per termini technici, yes. Some systems use EFI (or UEFI) instead of a BIOS. It's comparable to a much more advanced (than BIOS) micro-OS that initializes the hardware, connectes to the Internet, tells the manufacturer what you're doing and keeps limiting you in what you are allowed to install. :-) Or perhaps there are brands where BIOS reflash is not such a great pain? Yes, mainframes with loadable microprogram. :-) I remember on Compaq Armada the BIOS was stored on disk and Compaq provided a floppy image to boot from and reflash BIOS. That was easy. I remember that idea, but having to rely on a working hard disk in order to have _basic_ (that's what the 'B' in BIOS means) input and output functionality looks a bit ridiculous. Anything like this exist these days? For sure, but not very common in home consumer hardware (yet). Are there any EFI laptops? As far as I know, Apple only makes such. Newer netbooks intended to run MICROS~1 products are also known, both for i386/amd64 and ARM architecture (with the idea that on ARM, you cannot run anything else than what the hardware vendor allows, which is Windows). Any model people would recommend? IBM Thinkpad. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop
From: Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.com To: Chris devnullacco...@yahoo.se Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 6:51 PM Subject: Re: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop On Aug 29, 2012 8:44 AM, Chris devnullacco...@yahoo.se wrote: Hi, I've tried to search the lists but can't find anything, but please point me to an existing resource if available. I recently got a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E530 (3259-9VG) laptop and would like to get the Wifi card running (fresh FreeBSD 9.0 install), but I'm failling as it has been at least 5 years since I used with wifi under FreeBSD. The card is not automatically detected (interface not listed in ifconfig) so I'm assuming I have to either load a kernel module or go the NDIS path. It seems like on Windows, the same driver is used for E430, E435, E530 and E535, so in case anyone is using one of these models, please let me know if have things running. So some questions that might point me in the right direction: - How can I find out which type of card this laptop actually has (can I read it out of dmesg, some PCI listing or whatever)? All I can find are product sheets saying that it has 11b/g/n, but doesn't help me to find a driver. I Is there some meta-module that loads all the native wifi drivers that I can use that I can test? - If I need to use NDIS emulation, does anyone think it will work for this model/card? Windows drivers can be found here http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/product-and-parts/default.page). The handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html#CONFIG-NETWORK-NDIS) says I need Win XP drivers, is that old text or do I need that? I can't find XP drivers on the lenovo page... - If NDIS should be possible, how do I extract the .sys and .inf file from the exe that I downloaded from the URL above (I don't have any Windows machine right now). TIA, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org hi, you can usually find replacement wifi cards for your model on ebay, this can give you an idea of the chipset. also, you could always pull off the panel and look at the card. ndis can be tricky because it needs an older 32 bit driver, and you need to run a 32 bit version of FreeBSD. a good solution is to find a ralink or atheros card on ebay and swap it out, usually will cost less than 10 bucks USD. Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA Hi Waltman, jb and Daniel, (sorry for not replying to the latest email in the thread, something is wrong with my email account) Thanks very much for the help, it is really appreciated. I called Lenovo support and the only info they had was that it was an Intel card, so that's the same info as jb had tracked down (and I also found myself). Using pciconf as per jb's hint tells me it is a broadcom I have: none3@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x060814e4 chip=0x472714e4 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller' class = network As per the release notes for 9.0 (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/hardware.html#WLAN), the bwn(4) driver be the one to use. Added the following to my /boot/loader.conf following the instructions in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html and rebooted. if_bwn_load=YES wlan_wep_load=YES wlan_ccmp_load=YES wlan_tkip_load=YES (also tried the bwi(4) driver instead of bwn) I still don't get anything in dmesg or ifconfig. So either I have missed some step, or this specific card isn't supported by the bwn/bwi drivers. Anyone have any further ideas? If not, I'll try to track down some USB WLAN card that is supported, as I've also heard the same thing as Daniel, i.e. that non-Lenovo cards are blocked by the BIOS if you try to replace the default one. BR, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, Chris wrote: Using pciconf as per jb's hint tells me it is a broadcom I have: none3@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x060814e4 chip=0x472714e4 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller' class = network As per the release notes for 9.0 (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/hardware.html#WLAN), the bwn(4) driver be the one to use. Added the following to my /boot/loader.conf following the instructions in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html and rebooted. if_bwn_load=YES wlan_wep_load=YES wlan_ccmp_load=YES wlan_tkip_load=YES The last three are included in the GENERIC kernel. The bwi and bwn drivers need firmware, which is provided by the net/bwi-firmware-kmod and net/bwn-firmware-kmod ports. So install whichever is appropriate. I think the driver tries to load the right firmware automatically, but haven't tried a Broadcom in a while, and it might still be necessary to load the firmware module in /boot/loader.conf. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop
- Original Message - From: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com To: Chris devnullacco...@yahoo.se Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 3:58 PM Subject: Re: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, Chris wrote: Using pciconf as per jb's hint tells me it is a broadcom I have: none3@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x060814e4 chip=0x472714e4 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller' class = network As per the release notes for 9.0 (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/hardware.html#WLAN), the bwn(4) driver be the one to use. Added the following to my /boot/loader.conf following the instructions in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html and rebooted. if_bwn_load=YES wlan_wep_load=YES wlan_ccmp_load=YES wlan_tkip_load=YES The last three are included in the GENERIC kernel. The bwi and bwn drivers need firmware, which is provided by the net/bwi-firmware-kmod and net/bwn-firmware-kmod ports. So install whichever is appropriate. I think the driver tries to load the right firmware automatically, but haven't tried a Broadcom in a while, and it might still be necessary to load the firmware module in /boot/loader.conf. ___ Hi Warren, thanks. Tried with the firmware as well but no better luck. On closer inspection of the bwn manual, it seems like the 4313 is not on the list of suppored versions. What I did find though was that it is supposedly possible to get working using NDIS (even with amd64) as per this PC-BSD wiki page http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/Wireless_Testing I might try the NDIS, but will first see if I can find a USB card as the 'net seems to be full of talk about instability of the NDIS driver for the 4313. Thanks to everyone for the help! BR, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop
On Aug 30, 2012 7:17 AM, Chris devnullacco...@yahoo.se wrote: - Original Message - From: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com To: Chris devnullacco...@yahoo.se Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 3:58 PM Subject: Re: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, Chris wrote: Using pciconf as per jb's hint tells me it is a broadcom I have: none3@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x060814e4 chip=0x472714e4 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller' class = network As per the release notes for 9.0 (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/hardware.html#WLAN), the bwn(4) driver be the one to use. Added the following to my /boot/loader.conf following the instructions in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-wireless.html and rebooted. if_bwn_load=YES wlan_wep_load=YES wlan_ccmp_load=YES wlan_tkip_load=YES The last three are included in the GENERIC kernel. The bwi and bwn drivers need firmware, which is provided by the net/bwi-firmware-kmod and net/bwn-firmware-kmod ports. So install whichever is appropriate. I think the driver tries to load the right firmware automatically, but haven't tried a Broadcom in a while, and it might still be necessary to load the firmware module in /boot/loader.conf. ___ Hi Warren, thanks. Tried with the firmware as well but no better luck. On closer inspection of the bwn manual, it seems like the 4313 is not on the list of suppored versions. What I did find though was that it is supposedly possible to get working using NDIS (even with amd64) as per this PC-BSD wiki page http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/Wireless_Testing I might try the NDIS, but will first see if I can find a USB card as the 'net seems to be full of talk about instability of the NDIS driver for the 4313. Thanks to everyone for the help! BR, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org it would be cool if the 4313 worked, i've got a couple of those sitting around here. ill check out that link, thanks. as far as usb goes, I recommend an ralink based device, like older d_link dongles. (i think anything new on the shelf is using atheros, usb support not working afaik) ... all the usb ralink devices I found on ebay work perfectly. (there are even some that have a boosted range of 3km lol) as far as the bios whitelist, I have an hp with that kind of problem. there are several ways around it, but they are all dirty/suspect. luckily I found an ralink that sailed through the detection. you should be able to find out what lenovo sells as replacement parts to get an idea of what they /approve/ Waitman Gobble San Jose California ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Wifi for Lenovo Laptop
Hi, I've tried to search the lists but can't find anything, but please point me to an existing resource if available. I recently got a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E530 (3259-9VG) laptop and would like to get the Wifi card running (fresh FreeBSD 9.0 install), but I'm failling as it has been at least 5 years since I used with wifi under FreeBSD. The card is not automatically detected (interface not listed in ifconfig) so I'm assuming I have to either load a kernel module or go the NDIS path. It seems like on Windows, the same driver is used for E430, E435, E530 and E535, so in case anyone is using one of these models, please let me know if have things running. So some questions that might point me in the right direction: - How can I find out which type of card this laptop actually has (can I read it out of dmesg, some PCI listing or whatever)? All I can find are product sheets saying that it has 11b/g/n, but doesn't help me to find a driver. I Is there some meta-module that loads all the native wifi drivers that I can use that I can test? - If I need to use NDIS emulation, does anyone think it will work for this model/card? Windows drivers can be found here http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/product-and-parts/default.page). The handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html#CONFIG-NETWORK-NDIS) says I need Win XP drivers, is that old text or do I need that? I can't find XP drivers on the lenovo page... - If NDIS should be possible, how do I extract the .sys and .inf file from the exe that I downloaded from the URL above (I don't have any Windows machine right now). TIA, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop
On Aug 29, 2012 8:44 AM, Chris devnullacco...@yahoo.se wrote: Hi, I've tried to search the lists but can't find anything, but please point me to an existing resource if available. I recently got a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E530 (3259-9VG) laptop and would like to get the Wifi card running (fresh FreeBSD 9.0 install), but I'm failling as it has been at least 5 years since I used with wifi under FreeBSD. The card is not automatically detected (interface not listed in ifconfig) so I'm assuming I have to either load a kernel module or go the NDIS path. It seems like on Windows, the same driver is used for E430, E435, E530 and E535, so in case anyone is using one of these models, please let me know if have things running. So some questions that might point me in the right direction: - How can I find out which type of card this laptop actually has (can I read it out of dmesg, some PCI listing or whatever)? All I can find are product sheets saying that it has 11b/g/n, but doesn't help me to find a driver. I Is there some meta-module that loads all the native wifi drivers that I can use that I can test? - If I need to use NDIS emulation, does anyone think it will work for this model/card? Windows drivers can be found here http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/product-and-parts/default.page). The handbook ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html#CONFIG-NETWORK-NDIS) says I need Win XP drivers, is that old text or do I need that? I can't find XP drivers on the lenovo page... - If NDIS should be possible, how do I extract the .sys and .inf file from the exe that I downloaded from the URL above (I don't have any Windows machine right now). TIA, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org hi, you can usually find replacement wifi cards for your model on ebay, this can give you an idea of the chipset. also, you could always pull off the panel and look at the card. ndis can be tricky because it needs an older 32 bit driver, and you need to run a 32 bit version of FreeBSD. a good solution is to find a ralink or atheros card on ebay and swap it out, usually will cost less than 10 bucks USD. Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop
Chris devnullaccount at yahoo.se writes: ... I recently got a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E530 (3259-9VG) laptop and would like to get the Wifi card running (fresh FreeBSD 9.0 install) ... http://support.lenovo.com/en_GB/product-and-parts/detail.page?DocID=PD024684 Communications Network ThinkPad 1x1 11b/g/n PCIe Half Mini Card ThinkPad 11b/g/n PCIe Half Mini Card 1x1 Wi-Fi + Bluetooth combo adapter Intel Centrino® Wireless-N 2230 2x2 Wi-Fi + Bluetooth combo adapter Bluetooth 4.0 wireless There is a product ref file: http://www.lenovo.com/psref/ http://www.lenovo.com/psref/pdf/edgebook.pdf search for E530 3259. These entries will be probably useless, but here they are: $ dmesg -a | less $ dmesg | grep -i wireless Example: $ pciconf -lv |grep -i wireless ... wpi0@pci0:3:0:0:class=0x028000 card=0x10118086 chip=0x42278086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection' class = network ... Note: that wpi in top line is a driver name. $ lshal |grep -i wireless I searched Google but no luck. Get a recent Live CD or DVD from any Linux distro (Knoppix, Fedora, etc). jb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wifi for Lenovo Laptop
On 2012-08-29 11:42, Chris wrote: Hi, I've tried to search the lists but can't find anything, but please point me to an existing resource if available. I recently got a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E530 (3259-9VG) laptop and would like to get the Wifi card running (fresh FreeBSD 9.0 install), but I'm failling as it has been at least 5 years since I used with wifi under FreeBSD. The card is not automatically detected (interface not listed in ifconfig) so I'm assuming I have to either load a kernel module or go the NDIS path. It seems like on Windows, the same driver is used for E430, E435, E530 and E535, so in case anyone is using one of these models, please let me know if have things running. So some questions that might point me in the right direction: - How can I find out which type of card this laptop actually has (can I read it out of dmesg, some PCI listing or whatever)? All I can find are product sheets saying that it has 11b/g/n, but doesn't help me to find a driver. I Is there some meta-module that loads all the native wifi drivers that I can use that I can test? There's a couple of different Wifi options for that machine, so which one you have may make a difference. There looks to be some information on identifying which card you have here: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Wireless_Network_Adapters (Though they don't have your model listed yet, I think it's a new model...) I'm guessing you probably have a 'Thinkpad' card, which recently has been Realtek, but you'd have to check that. Note that replacing it with a generic mini-PCI wireless card may not work: Lenovo has been known to have their BIOS only recognize 'official' replacement parts. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
re: built-in mic configuration [compaq presario laptop]
I would like to be able to use the built-in mic to record audio and to use Skype with. An external mic seems to work out-of-the-box. Any input would be appreciated. :; uname -a FreeBSD box2 9.0-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p4 #0: Fri Aug 17 21:53:39 EEST 2012 root@box2:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 :; dmesg | grep pcm pcm0: HDA IDT 92HD75B3 PCM #0 Analog at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 pcm1: HDA NVidia (Unknown) PCM #0 Digital at cad 2 nid 1 on hdac0 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: built-in mic configuration [compaq presario laptop]
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to be able to use the built-in mic to record audio and to use Skype with. An external mic seems to work out-of-the-box. Any input would be appreciated. :; uname -a FreeBSD box2 9.0-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p4 #0: Fri Aug 17 21:53:39 EEST 2012 root@box2:/usr/obj/usr/src/**sys/GENERIC i386 :; dmesg | grep pcm pcm0: HDA IDT 92HD75B3 PCM #0 Analog at cad 0 nid 1 on hdac0 pcm1: HDA NVidia (Unknown) PCM #0 Digital at cad 2 nid 1 on hdac0 __**_ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/**mailman/listinfo/freebsd-**questionshttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-** unsubscr...@freebsd.org freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Hi, you need to specify the device, take a look at # ls /dev/dsp* /dev/dsp0.0/dev/dsp0.1/dev/dsp1.0/dev/dsp2.0/dev/dsp2.1 for example, i can send audio output to headphone jack: # mplayer -zoom -x 1280 -y 720 -fs -ao oss:/dev/dsp1 -mixer /dev/mixer2 /path/to/file Haven't tried skype on FreeBSD but there should be a device setting. I've noticed that some machines seem to automatically switch, ie when I plug in headphones to the headphone jack or a mic into a microphone jack it just works. But other machines don't work automatically and I have to set the device manually as above. A simple way, you can try setting each device to see which one works. :) # cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64) Installed devices: pcm0: ATI R6xx (HDMI) (play) pcm1: IDT 92HD81B1X (Analog 2.0+HP/2.0) (play/rec) default pcm2: IDT 92HD81B1X (Analog Mic) (rec) # mixer Mixer vol is currently set to 90:90 Mixer pcm is currently set to 85:85 Mixer speaker is currently set to 100:100 Mixer mic is currently set to 67:67 Mixer mix is currently set to 1:1 Mixer rec is currently set to 1:1 Mixer ogainis currently set to 100:100 Recording source: mic Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: built-in mic configuration [compaq presario laptop]
On 08/25/12 19:26, Waitman Gobble wrote: you need to specify the device, take a look at # ls /dev/dsp* /dev/dsp0.0/dev/dsp0.1/dev/dsp1.0/dev/dsp2.0 /dev/dsp2.1 for example, i can send audio output to headphone jack: # mplayer -zoom -x 1280 -y 720 -fs -ao oss:/dev/dsp1 -mixer /dev/mixer2 /path/to/file Haven't tried skype on FreeBSD but there should be a device setting. I've noticed that some machines seem to automatically switch, ie when I plug in headphones to the headphone jack or a mic into a microphone jack it just works. But other machines don't work automatically and I have to set the device manually as above. A simple way, you can try setting each device to see which one works. :) # cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64) Installed devices: pcm0: ATI R6xx (HDMI) (play) pcm1: IDT 92HD81B1X (Analog 2.0+HP/2.0) (play/rec) default pcm2: IDT 92HD81B1X (Analog Mic) (rec) # mixer Mixer vol is currently set to 90:90 Mixer pcm is currently set to 85:85 Mixer speaker is currently set to 100:100 Mixer mic is currently set to 67:67 Mixer mix is currently set to 1:1 Mixer rec is currently set to 1:1 Mixer ogainis currently set to 100:100 Recording source: mic OK. Thanks. I'll give that a try. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: built-in mic configuration [compaq presario laptop]
El día Saturday, August 25, 2012 a las 09:26:44AM -0700, Waitman Gobble escribió: Hi, you need to specify the device, take a look at # ls /dev/dsp* /dev/dsp0.0/dev/dsp0.1/dev/dsp1.0/dev/dsp2.0/dev/dsp2.1 for example, i can send audio output to headphone jack: # mplayer -zoom -x 1280 -y 720 -fs -ao oss:/dev/dsp1 -mixer /dev/mixer2 /path/to/file For tests you might even record and playback the recorded with, for example: # dd if=/dev/dsp0 of=/tmp/recorded # cat /tmp/recorded /dev/dsp0 Haven't tried skype on FreeBSD but there should be a device setting. I've noticed that some machines seem to automatically switch, ie when I plug in headphones to the headphone jack or a mic into a microphone jack it just works. But other machines don't work automatically and I have to set the device manually as above. A simple way, you can try setting each device to see which one works. :) yes, Skype allows to configure this even on top of the emulation of Linux; I do it all days matthias -- Matthias Apitz e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/ UNIX since V7 on PDP-11, UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370) UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2, FreeBSD since 2.2.5 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: built-in mic configuration [compaq presario laptop]
On 08/25/2012 09:50 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote: For tests you might even record and playback the recorded with, for example: # dd if=/dev/dsp0 of=/tmp/recorded # cat /tmp/recorded /dev/dsp0 Thanks. I'll fiddle with that. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: kde4 on 8.3 and laptop
On Wed, 30 May 2012, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Hi, Reference: From: Brian W. br...@brianwhalen.net Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 22:48:20 -0700 Message-id: CADV=szwzm0_nl-wo0yqjuwsywdthscunnnzlcbhbfp56sra...@mail.gmail.com Brian W. wrote: On May 29, 2012 10:28 PM, Gary Aitken free...@dreamchaser.org wrote: On 05/29/12 22:15, Jim Pazarena wrote: I had kde3 running just fine on 8.2 on my laptop. I have now installed 8.3 -and- kde4 on my laptop, and the kde system will not work as expected. when I type kdm (which is at /usr/local/kde4/bin/kdm) I get the expected login screen (however the mouse dies), and after I login, all I get is a small cli window in the top left corner. The mouse has gone dead, and the keyboard doesn't respond, altho there is a prompt in the cli window. All I can do at this point is hold the power button in to reboot. If I do not try running kdm, the normal cli works 100%, the ethernet works, and the mouse always seems alive (altho in the cli the mouse is of no value). Suggestions would be very appreciated. I don't know about the mouse dieing. I'm running 9.0 and I've seen that once or twice when first setting up X. You don't need to reboot. Do altFn to switch to a different vty. Log in on that vty, do a ps to find the process you used to start kdm, (ps -ax | grep kdm) and kill -TERM that process. That should get you back to a regular prompt on the original vty. Do altF1 to go back to that screen. Gary Ctr-alt-shift-backspace has also killed many a stuck x session. you can also, from another host (perhaps also running X, so you still have full convenience/comfort :-) do an rlogin or ssh or telnet stuckhost then do ps -laxww /tmp/t ; vi /tmp/t look at the columns PID PPID (parent of Process ID) ls -ltr /var/log not only to find kill stuck stuff, but to analyse what is getting stuck, failing, what is called from where, etc. Cheers, Julian If you have not, look at .xsession-errors, Xorg.0.log, and kdm's log. All this can be done via ssh of course and is much easier to do that way with a working GUI et all. Flop the hal setttings, e.g. off if on and vise versa. Also you can try xdm and startx to see if you get any different symptoms. My last idea is to use tmw with xdm or startx. If you still get the error at least you know its Xorg and not kde. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
kde4 on 8.3 and laptop
I had kde3 running just fine on 8.2 on my laptop. I have now installed 8.3 -and- kde4 on my laptop, and the kde system will not work as expected. when I type kdm (which is at /usr/local/kde4/bin/kdm) I get the expected login screen (however the mouse dies), and after I login, all I get is a small cli window in the top left corner. The mouse has gone dead, and the keyboard doesn't respond, altho there is a prompt in the cli window. All I can do at this point is hold the power button in to reboot. If I do not try running kdm, the normal cli works 100%, the ethernet works, and the mouse always seems alive (altho in the cli the mouse is of no value). Suggestions would be very appreciated. -- Jim Pazarena fqu...@paz.bz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: kde4 on 8.3 and laptop
On 05/29/12 22:15, Jim Pazarena wrote: I had kde3 running just fine on 8.2 on my laptop. I have now installed 8.3 -and- kde4 on my laptop, and the kde system will not work as expected. when I type kdm (which is at /usr/local/kde4/bin/kdm) I get the expected login screen (however the mouse dies), and after I login, all I get is a small cli window in the top left corner. The mouse has gone dead, and the keyboard doesn't respond, altho there is a prompt in the cli window. All I can do at this point is hold the power button in to reboot. If I do not try running kdm, the normal cli works 100%, the ethernet works, and the mouse always seems alive (altho in the cli the mouse is of no value). Suggestions would be very appreciated. I don't know about the mouse dieing. I'm running 9.0 and I've seen that once or twice when first setting up X. You don't need to reboot. Do altFn to switch to a different vty. Log in on that vty, do a ps to find the process you used to start kdm, (ps -ax | grep kdm) and kill -TERM that process. That should get you back to a regular prompt on the original vty. Do altF1 to go back to that screen. Gary ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: kde4 on 8.3 and laptop
On May 29, 2012 10:28 PM, Gary Aitken free...@dreamchaser.org wrote: On 05/29/12 22:15, Jim Pazarena wrote: I had kde3 running just fine on 8.2 on my laptop. I have now installed 8.3 -and- kde4 on my laptop, and the kde system will not work as expected. when I type kdm (which is at /usr/local/kde4/bin/kdm) I get the expected login screen (however the mouse dies), and after I login, all I get is a small cli window in the top left corner. The mouse has gone dead, and the keyboard doesn't respond, altho there is a prompt in the cli window. All I can do at this point is hold the power button in to reboot. If I do not try running kdm, the normal cli works 100%, the ethernet works, and the mouse always seems alive (altho in the cli the mouse is of no value). Suggestions would be very appreciated. I don't know about the mouse dieing. I'm running 9.0 and I've seen that once or twice when first setting up X. You don't need to reboot. Do altFn to switch to a different vty. Log in on that vty, do a ps to find the process you used to start kdm, (ps -ax | grep kdm) and kill -TERM that process. That should get you back to a regular prompt on the original vty. Do altF1 to go back to that screen. Gary Ctr-alt-shift-backspace has also killed many a stuck x session. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ACPI temprature settings [WAS: Re: laptop very hot and noisy]
On 08/05/2012 15:06, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Anyway, this was easier than I expected. I removed a lot of dust from the fan and the heat sink gills. I also replaced the thermal material. I prop my mine up off the desk to get better airflow to the fan intake which is on the underside. The fan slows down when I lift it up indicating it is moving more air. I rebuilt gcc47 and saw the highest temperature of 75. This is on the southern side, so not too bad. The noise reduced too. Now, I'd just like to understand better the meaning of these console messages: May 8 15:00:08 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC3: temperature 64.0= setpoint 40.0 May 8 15:00:08 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC2: temperature 64.0= setpoint 50.0 May 8 15:00:18 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC3: temperature 64.0= setpoint 40.0 May 8 15:00:18 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC2: temperature 64.0= setpoint 50.0 May 8 15:00:28 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC3: temperature 64.0= setpoint 40.0 May 8 15:00:28 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC2: temperature 64.0= setpoint 50.0 May 8 15:00:38 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC3: temperature 64.0= setpoint 40.0 May 8 15:00:38 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC2: temperature 64.0= setpoint 50.0 May 8 15:00:48 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC3: temperature 65.0= setpoint 40.0 May 8 15:00:48 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC2: temperature 65.0= setpoint 50.0 Where are setpoints defined? What's acpi_tz? What are AC1, AC2, AC3? Which kernel tunables are involved in the switching from one fan speed to another (assuming AC1, AC2, AC3 are related to fan speed in some way)? I had a quick look at ⌡aacpi(4), but none of the above are mentioned. Many thanks for all your help. Google for acpi_tz0: _CRT value is absurd, ignored and you will find a long thread with some hopefully useful pointers. You may need to bone up on the ACPI reference and custom ASL's for FreeBSD. I've forgotten most of it now but I think you will find references for both of them in that thread. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: laptop very hot and noisy
On Wed, 2 May 2012 06:19:50 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Tuesday 01 May 2012 20:52:11 Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 1 May 2012 13:41:11 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 08:25:11AM -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote: Not a big issue. Make sure you can remember which parts belong where. Make photos if it helps you, or draw some notes. If possible, find the service manual of the device and use it as orientation. But I think such kind of documentation is no longer part of the end user book present. :-) you cannot say this in general. I didn't intend to. From my limited experience (considering modern home consumer throw-away laptops and netbooks) there's hardly any usable documentation. A start-up guide is among the few printed materials. DVDs often contain drivers and a few instructions (e. g. how to plug in the power supply), but things starting with opening the device are typically left out. However, I welcome manufacturers providing service manuals so a skilled user can use them. A typical problem (as you described) can appear when special screwdrivers, glue, spare parts or other tools are needed for repair that cannot be purchased freely (or easily). In such cases, repair attempts would often be more expensive than replacing the whole device. I've been lucky exploring that my new Lenovo Thinkpad T61p can be This is a different class of machines. They are made to be repaired and they are very large. Both is correct, and I'm happy of that. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: laptop very hot and noisy
Hi, On Wednesday 02 May 2012 19:09:56 Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2012 06:19:50 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: On Tuesday 01 May 2012 20:52:11 Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 1 May 2012 13:41:11 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 08:25:11AM -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote: Not a big issue. Make sure you can remember which parts belong where. Make photos if it helps you, or draw some notes. If possible, find the service manual of the device and use it as orientation. But I think such kind of documentation is no longer part of the end user book present. :-) you cannot say this in general. I didn't intend to. From my limited experience (considering modern home consumer throw-away laptops and netbooks) there's hardly any usable documentation. A start-up guide is among the few printed materials. DVDs often contain drivers and a few instructions (e. g. even with the professional class, it is the same. how to plug in the power supply), but things starting with opening the device are typically left out. However, I welcome manufacturers providing service manuals so a skilled user can use them. A typical problem (as you described) can appear when special screwdrivers, The said thing is that they all have but not all publish them. glue, spare parts or other tools are needed for repair that cannot be purchased freely (or easily). In such cases, repair attempts would often be more expensive than replacing the whole device. Not with the professional class machines. But the chemicals needed are a problem there too. I've been lucky exploring that my new Lenovo Thinkpad T61p can be This is a different class of machines. They are made to be repaired and they are very large. Both is correct, and I'm happy of that. :-) The largest screen I ever have had was 13.3. They did not have anything smaller those days. My best experience comes from a 10 LCD. I have had to settle now for 12.5. Ok, it has one plus. The keys are of normal size. And I learned that the machine is very robust again. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: laptop very hot and noisy
Hi, On Tuesday 01 May 2012 20:52:11 Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 1 May 2012 13:41:11 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 08:25:11AM -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote: Not a big issue. Make sure you can remember which parts belong where. Make photos if it helps you, or draw some notes. If possible, find the service manual of the device and use it as orientation. But I think such kind of documentation is no longer part of the end user book present. :-) you cannot say this in general. I've been lucky exploring that my new Lenovo Thinkpad T61p can be This is a different class of machines. They are made to be repaired and they are very large. I have had a Fujitsu P2120 which died after a lightning strike. So, I disassembled it. The machine is so small that they have had to use all tricks get it this small. The most interesting thing for me was the affect of damage to this machine. It got hit by something like a sledge hammer when it was not with me. This bend the magnesia cover but did not cause any internal damage. The material is very brittle but no metal dust fell into the machine. easily disassembled up to the CPU region and the cooling units without trouble, and with _standard_ tools, and you don't need to eviscerate _all_ the bowels of the device in order to make your way to that component. The P2120 uses even a special glue to connect the graphics chip with the hear sink. The heat sink cools also the CPU. There is no way on this machine to take the heat sink off and later back, if this glue is not at hand. Erich -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: laptop freebsd display not filling whole screen
On 15 Feb 2012 at 17:25, Fbsd8 wrote: I installed 9.0 on a Toshiba laptop. The Freebsd console only fills a small box in the center of the screen. I found nothing in the handbook about this so I am asking here. How do I get the console to fill to whole laptop screen? Many Toshiba laptops have a feature in the BIOS (Stretch or Expand) so that a 640x480 text screen (for example) will fill the full disaply, whatever the physical pixel resolution is. Looks weird, but it does what it says. Regards. Dave B. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
laptop freebsd display not filling whole screen
I installed 9.0 on a Toshiba laptop. The Freebsd console only fills a small box in the center of the screen. I found nothing in the handbook about this so I am asking here. How do I get the console to fill to whole laptop screen? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: laptop freebsd display not filling whole screen
On 02/15/12 19:25, Fbsd8 wrote: I installed 9.0 on a Toshiba laptop. The Freebsd console only fills a small box in the center of the screen. I found nothing in the handbook about this so I am asking here. How do I get the console to fill to whole laptop screen? You are talking about a terminal screen and not X Windows? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: laptop freebsd display not filling whole screen
On 02/15/12 20:12, Da Rock wrote: On 02/15/12 19:25, Fbsd8 wrote: I installed 9.0 on a Toshiba laptop. The Freebsd console only fills a small box in the center of the screen. I found nothing in the handbook about this so I am asking here. How do I get the console to fill to whole laptop screen? You are talking about a terminal screen and not X Windows? If you are talking of the terminal screen, then check man vidcontrol. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: laptop freebsd display not filling whole screen
On 2012/02/15 10:25, Fbsd8 wrote: I installed 9.0 on a Toshiba laptop. The Freebsd console only fills a small box in the center of the screen. I found nothing in the handbook about this so I am asking here. How do I get the console to fill to whole laptop screen? I met it earlier a few times on various notebooks and I think it has nothing to do with FreeBSD per se. On some notebooks I changed it via *BIOS* settings but usually didn't care at all - I use X sessions mostly... HTH Oli ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
re. laptop freebsd display not filling whole screen
My IBM Thinkpad does that trick. But its some hardware-function and can be switched via special key + FN8. Maybe download the service or installation manual for your laptop and find some option? Maybe also something in the setup? Cheers herb langhans ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
9.0-RELEASE: Strange freezing and kernel panics on laptop
Hi, I'm in need of advice. I've recently installed FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE on my laptop (a Dell Inspiron 1318) with a good deal of success. However, I've been experiencing a few hiccups, to say the least. The kernel is the GENERIC for the amd64 architecture that comes with the installation images (no funny compilation issues on my part): $ uname -a FreeBSD apeiron 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:46:30 UTC 2012 r...@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Since I've installed it, the system has been freezing for apparently no reason and, once in a while, rebooting upon a kernel panic. The kernel panics come in two varieties: Fatal Trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel mode Fatal Trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode I have the dump files. [Concerning the Fatal Trap 12: I ran memtest86+ and everything turned out alright on the memory side.] As for the recurrent freezing, it seems to me (but this is a hunch) that it might be related to wireless card issues (since, for what I can recall, it happens some time after I start having connection issues). Also, every time I do a netif restart, the system just freezes after displaying two lines: bwn0: need multicast update callback TODO: need swap [In order not to raise side issues, I have a fully working LP PHY Broadcom 4312 (except for these issues), and I have hw.bwn.usedma=0 in loader.conf---but the freezing thing happens whether it is set to 1 or 0.] A quick inspection to log files reveals some pattern in /var/log/messages: === Feb 10 19:01:59 apeiron wpa_supplicant[464]: WPA: Group rekeying completed with 68:7f:74:e9:d6:91 [GTK=TKIP] Feb 10 19:22:02 apeiron kernel: bwn0: unexpected NULL ni Feb 10 19:27:07 apeiron syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel [...] Feb 10 19:27:07 apeiron savecore: reboot after panic: general protection fault Feb 10 19:27:07 apeiron savecore: writing core to vmcore.0 Feb 11 21:39:40 apeiron wpa_supplicant[464]: WPA: Group rekeying completed with 68:7f:74:e9:d6:91 [GTK=TKIP] Feb 11 21:39:47 apeiron kernel: bwn0: device timeout Feb 11 21:44:38 apeiron kernel: bwn0: unexpected NULL ni Feb 11 21:44:38 apeiron kernel: bwn0: unexpected NULL ni Feb 11 21:47:33 apeiron syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel Feb 12 17:23:47 apeiron wpa_supplicant[464]: WPA: Group rekeying completed with 68:7f:74:e9:d6:91 [GTK=TKIP] Feb 12 18:20:32 apeiron kernel: bwn0: device timeout Feb 12 18:22:23 apeiron kernel: bwn0: unexpected NULL ni Feb 12 18:31:49 apeiron syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel Feb 13 17:16:43 apeiron kernel: bwn0: device timeout Feb 13 17:21:39 apeiron kernel: bwn0: unexpected NULL ni Feb 13 17:22:40 apeiron syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel [...] Feb 13 17:22:40 apeiron savecore: reboot after panic: page fault Feb 13 17:22:40 apeiron savecore: writing core to vmcore.1 Feb 14 11:40:49 apeiron wpa_supplicant[464]: WPA: Group rekeying completed with 68:7f:74:e9:d6:91 [GTK=TKIP] Feb 14 12:02:23 apeiron kernel: bwn0: device timeout Feb 14 12:03:52 apeiron kernel: bwn0: unexpected NULL ni Feb 14 12:12:27 apeiron kernel: , 2265. Feb 14 12:13:10 apeiron syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel === As for the panics, they immediately follow two of the messages above, as you can appreciate in the quote. Maybe the following can help (or not!!). In /var/log/messages, the following two lines keep showing: acpi0: reservation of 0, 9f000 (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 10, 7f56d800 (3) failed Needless to say, this won't discourage me from using FreeBSD on my laptop, but it isn't very pleasant to have these kind of problems while working. Right now, the workaround I implemented is to use a Linksys wireless adapter I had sleeping in its box. However, being able to use the Broadcom card would be nice. Any help would be appreciated, if nothing else, to understand what's happening. Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
9.0-RELEASE: Strange freezing and kernel panics on laptop
Hi, I'm in need of advice. I've recently installed FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE on my laptop (a Dell Inspiron 1318) with a good deal of success. However, I've been experiencing a few hiccups, to say the least. The kernel is the GENERIC for the amd64 architecture that comes with the installation images (no funny compilation issues on my part): $ uname -a FreeBSD apeiron 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:46:30 UTC 2012 r...@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Since I've installed it, the system has been freezing for apparently no reason and, once in a while, rebooting upon a kernel panic. The kernel panics come in two varieties: Fatal Trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel mode Fatal Trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode I have the dump files. [Concerning the Fatal Trap 12: I ran memtest86+ and everything turned out alright on the memory side.] As for the recurrent freezing, it seems to me (but this is a hunch) that it might be related to wireless card issues (since, for what I can recall, it happens some time after I start having conection issues). Also, everytime I do a netif restart, the system just freezes after displaying two lines: bwn0: need multicast update callback TODO: need swap [In order not to raise side issues, I have a fully working LP PHY Broadcom 4312 (except for these issues), and I have hw.bwn.usedma=0 in loader.conf---but the freezing thing happens whether it is set to 1 or 0.] And that's about it. In particular, nothing shows in /var/log/messages. As for the panics, I'm clueless. Maybe the following can help (or not!!). In /var/log/messages, the following two lines keep showing: acpi0: reservation of 0, 9f000 (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 10, 7f56d800 (3) failed Needless to say, this won't discourage me from using FreeBSD on my laptop, but it isn't very funny to have these kind of problems while doing some work. Any help would be appreciated, if nothing else, to understand what's happening. Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Lenovo athlon laptop
Hello, I bought a lenovo laptop (cpu amd dual core, graphics is radeon 6250 Everything woks, except the graphics that only works with driver vga at 1024x768. if I use the ati driver, it works in 1366x800 (that is the panel resolution, it works ok, but ONLY ONCE, that is, the gdm program opens the login menu, I log in, works all the applications: libreoffice, nautilus, firefox, audio, video but when I log off, then gdm resets the display and all I can see it is a black screen. if I reset the screen several times (about 16 times , by killing gdm) using an ssh session... the login screen appears OK... Seems that the ati driver is mapping the fb wrong... Thanks for any help, Sergio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011, Da Rock wrote: The laptop is a compaq cq62 with a quad core phenom and a ATI 4200 Radeon mobility GPU, as well as 6300 GPU. Sorry, I can't find any specs for a CQ62 with both ATI and NVidia. There's a trademark name for the dual GPU systems, at least the Intel-plus-something-else kind, but I can't recall it. The HTPC/desktop is a whitebox quad core phenom on a ASUS MB (not 100% sure which) with a NVidia onboard pcie GPU, and an ATI Radeon 3450. There could be yet another GPU on there, but I can't remember. That system is running 8.x FBSD (1 or 2- can't quite remember), The start of /var/log/Xorg.0.log would be interesting, both for the version of FreeBSD and the version of xorg-server. I don't think I have anything with dual PCIe X16 slots to test. and the laptop I'm installing 9.0-RC3 on, with the view to using freebsd-update to RELEASE, because of the lack of Atheros 9285 support in 8.x (tried for hours, just couldn't get the bird to fly :( ). From what I understand now, having been able assimilate what has been discussed here and through google, it seems there is a conflict when dealing with multiple onboard GPUs. What exactly is the issue with getting an arbiter for FreeBSD? Aside from time, naturally. Usually it's finding someone able to do the work that's willing to do the work. The Foundation is funding some of that, and I've heard they're interested in getting the KMS for the Radeon driver going. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev
On 12/21/11 07:39, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 20 Dec 2011, Da Rock wrote: The laptop is a compaq cq62 with a quad core phenom and a ATI 4200 Radeon mobility GPU, as well as 6300 GPU. Sorry, I can't find any specs for a CQ62 with both ATI and NVidia. There's a trademark name for the dual GPU systems, at least the Intel-plus-something-else kind, but I can't recall it. No, no- you won't. Both cards in the laptop are ATI. The HTPC has an onboard NVidia, and a PCIe 16x ATI. The HTPC/desktop is a whitebox quad core phenom on a ASUS MB (not 100% sure which) with a NVidia onboard pcie GPU, and an ATI Radeon 3450. There could be yet another GPU on there, but I can't remember. That system is running 8.x FBSD (1 or 2- can't quite remember), The start of /var/log/Xorg.0.log would be interesting, both for the version of FreeBSD and the version of xorg-server. I don't think I have anything with dual PCIe X16 slots to test. I'll have to look closer at it when I get a spare breath, it is a little intriguing. and the laptop I'm installing 9.0-RC3 on, with the view to using freebsd-update to RELEASE, because of the lack of Atheros 9285 support in 8.x (tried for hours, just couldn't get the bird to fly :( ). From what I understand now, having been able assimilate what has been discussed here and through google, it seems there is a conflict when dealing with multiple onboard GPUs. What exactly is the issue with getting an arbiter for FreeBSD? Aside from time, naturally. Usually it's finding someone able to do the work that's willing to do the work. The Foundation is funding some of that, and I've heard they're interested in getting the KMS for the Radeon driver going. Is there anyone here that _can_ do the work? What about mentoring? As for the financials... thats something else to consider. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev
I hate to come with this kind of a query, but my googling hasn't come across a satisfactory answer. I'm running an install on a brand new laptop for a client, and I'm trying to get X up using xdm- nothing. The logs says it failed to load fbdev because there is no data module. I try uninstalling fbdev and running a rebuild of xorg- its still using the builtin configuration and still can't load fbdev. No devices detected. I run Xorg -configure, and it shows the radeon card fine, 2 displays. Still working with the config file, but it seems fine. WTF? This is essentially the same hardware as another laptop I've setup (same video card - same brand CPU, just bigger and faster), and its fine. Both are AMD, the original is athlon dual core, the new is phenom quad core. The googling failed as my searches came up with either root has access and user doesn't, or mixed intel/ati. Neither are the case here... Cheers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev
On 12/19/11 21:31, Da Rock wrote: I hate to come with this kind of a query, but my googling hasn't come across a satisfactory answer. I'm running an install on a brand new laptop for a client, and I'm trying to get X up using xdm- nothing. The logs says it failed to load fbdev because there is no data module. I try uninstalling fbdev and running a rebuild of xorg- its still using the builtin configuration and still can't load fbdev. No devices detected. I run Xorg -configure, and it shows the radeon card fine, 2 displays. Still working with the config file, but it seems fine. correction - its dual display issue that I've never had trouble with before (I also have installed on a HTPC with same memory, phenom quad core, uses a radeon HD card and a NVidia HD card). And no, the Xorg -config /root/xorg.conf.new [-retro] doesn't work as it is locking up and I can't even ctl-alt-backspace, I have to acpi power off to shut the system down. Google's still not giving me any hope... :( Last time I came across this level of issue was with a solo vintage intel card on yet another laptop- it froze the system too. BTW, who says multicard vga is rare? WTF? This is essentially the same hardware as another laptop I've setup (same video card - same brand CPU, just bigger and faster), and its fine. Both are AMD, the original is athlon dual core, the new is phenom quad core. The googling failed as my searches came up with either root has access and user doesn't, or mixed intel/ati. Neither are the case here... Cheers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Da Rock wrote: On 12/19/11 21:31, Da Rock wrote: I hate to come with this kind of a query, but my googling hasn't come across a satisfactory answer. I'm running an install on a brand new laptop for a client, and I'm trying to get X up using xdm- nothing. The logs says it failed to load fbdev because there is no data module. I try uninstalling fbdev and running a rebuild of xorg- its still using the builtin configuration and still can't load fbdev. No devices detected. I run Xorg -configure, and it shows the radeon card fine, 2 displays. Still working with the config file, but it seems fine. correction - its dual display issue that I've never had trouble with before (I also have installed on a HTPC with same memory, phenom quad core, uses a radeon HD card and a NVidia HD card). And no, the Xorg -config /root/xorg.conf.new [-retro] doesn't work as it is locking up and I can't even ctl-alt-backspace, I have to acpi power off to shut the system down. Google's still not giving me any hope... :( Last time I came across this level of issue was with a solo vintage intel card on yet another laptop- it froze the system too. BTW, who says multicard vga is rare? Some newer laptops have dual GPUs, an onboard Intel combined with one from another vendor for higher performance. There's hot-switching between the two, but AFAIK it's not supported in FreeBSD. There may be a BIOS option to disable one or the other. There should still be two video outputs. More than one video card at a time is a different issue, which is also unsupported on FreeBSD AFAIK: (WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev
On 12/20/11 03:05, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Da Rock wrote: On 12/19/11 21:31, Da Rock wrote: I hate to come with this kind of a query, but my googling hasn't come across a satisfactory answer. I'm running an install on a brand new laptop for a client, and I'm trying to get X up using xdm- nothing. The logs says it failed to load fbdev because there is no data module. I try uninstalling fbdev and running a rebuild of xorg- its still using the builtin configuration and still can't load fbdev. No devices detected. I run Xorg -configure, and it shows the radeon card fine, 2 displays. Still working with the config file, but it seems fine. correction - its dual display issue that I've never had trouble with before (I also have installed on a HTPC with same memory, phenom quad core, uses a radeon HD card and a NVidia HD card). And no, the Xorg -config /root/xorg.conf.new [-retro] doesn't work as it is locking up and I can't even ctl-alt-backspace, I have to acpi power off to shut the system down. Google's still not giving me any hope... :( Last time I came across this level of issue was with a solo vintage intel card on yet another laptop- it froze the system too. BTW, who says multicard vga is rare? Some newer laptops have dual GPUs, an onboard Intel combined with one from another vendor for higher performance. There's hot-switching between the two, but AFAIK it's not supported in FreeBSD. There may be a BIOS option to disable one or the other. There should still be two video outputs. More than one video card at a time is a different issue, which is also unsupported on FreeBSD AFAIK: (WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support It appears that it is something that needs to be resolved pretty quickly then. The linux guys jumped on it quick as (I'm not ribbing by the way) - probably their guys came across it sooner than BSD users. What has thrown me is the fact that I didn't even consider it as a problem because I already had installed on a dual video system- ATI card and NVidia onboard, both that will work on a linux system, and that FBSD has no problem like this either; it just works. Weird... So what are my options then? I have 2 high performance cards I can't use? VESA is not exactly an exciting solution - or secure: it somehow retains the image displayed in memory, and shows it as it loads up X the next time. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011, Da Rock wrote: Some newer laptops have dual GPUs, an onboard Intel combined with one from another vendor for higher performance. There's hot-switching between the two, but AFAIK it's not supported in FreeBSD. There may be a BIOS option to disable one or the other. There should still be two video outputs. More than one video card at a time is a different issue, which is also unsupported on FreeBSD AFAIK: (WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support It appears that it is something that needs to be resolved pretty quickly then. The linux guys jumped on it quick as (I'm not ribbing by the way) - probably their guys came across it sooner than BSD users. What has thrown me is the fact that I didn't even consider it as a problem because I already had installed on a dual video system- ATI card and NVidia onboard, both that will work on a linux system, and that FBSD has no problem like this either; it just works. Weird... It's difficult to tell what you're saying. It's possible that multiple cards would work in some combinations, and just that the ones I tried did not. Also, you're talking about two systems, a laptop and a desktop. So it would be good to get some specifics, like laptop brand and model, whether the desktop dual-card setup worked with FreeBSD (and which version of FreeBSD). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev
On 12/20/11 14:33, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 20 Dec 2011, Da Rock wrote: Some newer laptops have dual GPUs, an onboard Intel combined with one from another vendor for higher performance. There's hot-switching between the two, but AFAIK it's not supported in FreeBSD. There may be a BIOS option to disable one or the other. There should still be two video outputs. More than one video card at a time is a different issue, which is also unsupported on FreeBSD AFAIK: (WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support It appears that it is something that needs to be resolved pretty quickly then. The linux guys jumped on it quick as (I'm not ribbing by the way) - probably their guys came across it sooner than BSD users. What has thrown me is the fact that I didn't even consider it as a problem because I already had installed on a dual video system- ATI card and NVidia onboard, both that will work on a linux system, and that FBSD has no problem like this either; it just works. Weird... It's difficult to tell what you're saying. It's possible that multiple cards would work in some combinations, and just that the ones I tried did not. Also, you're talking about two systems, a laptop and a desktop. So it would be good to get some specifics, like laptop brand and model, whether the desktop dual-card setup worked with FreeBSD (and which version of FreeBSD). NP. I thought I was clear, but I'm not always coherent when I communicate (apparently... just ask the missus :) ). The laptop is a compaq cq62 with a quad core phenom and a ATI 4200 Radeon mobility GPU, as well as 6300 GPU. The HTPC/desktop is a whitebox quad core phenom on a ASUS MB (not 100% sure which) with a NVidia onboard pcie GPU, and an ATI Radeon 3450. There could be yet another GPU on there, but I can't remember. That system is running 8.x FBSD (1 or 2- can't quite remember), and the laptop I'm installing 9.0-RC3 on, with the view to using freebsd-update to RELEASE, because of the lack of Atheros 9285 support in 8.x (tried for hours, just couldn't get the bird to fly :( ). From what I understand now, having been able assimilate what has been discussed here and through google, it seems there is a conflict when dealing with multiple onboard GPUs. What exactly is the issue with getting an arbiter for FreeBSD? Aside from time, naturally. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Which Lenovo Laptop?
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:03 AM, 文鳥 bunc...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I am typing this message on a W520 running 9.0 stable, which should be similar enough to the T520. - MBR boot works fine, but GPT seems to be impossible (Lenovo appears to have messed up again). - The NVidia driver is working almost perfectly once you enforce it in BIOS, but occasionally (3 times in last 2.5 months) the screen starts displaying a strange block pattern after some time and renders the display unusable until I restart X (logging in via SSH works, as does the power button == ACPI shutdown). Haven't been able track the cause down yet. - Suspend seems to be unreliable, so I stopped trying (back on BETA2). - acpi_ibm.ko works once you patch sys/dev/acpi_support/acpi_ibm.c, line 338, and replace IBM0068 with LEN0068, which makes most of the multimedia keys usable. - Wireless is working (iwn), but I'm not using it that frequently so YMMV. - I cannot comment on bluetooth, camera or SD card reader, since I never use those. But there is one annoying problem I did not manage to fix yet: The screen brightness control does not work at all, i.e. it's always at maximum (hw.acpi.video sysctls seem to have no effect). All in all, this laptop is a nice desktop replacement, just don't expect the battery to last too long. Best regards When you say that suspending seems unreliable, do you mean that it sometimes work? Did you try unloading kernel modules before putting it in sleep mode to see if it makes a difference? About screen brightness, I thought there was a setting in xorg.conf that made it to work? Cheers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Which Lenovo Laptop?
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 09:18:17 -0500 Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.net wrote: On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:03 AM, 文鳥 bunc...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I am typing this message on a W520 running 9.0 stable, which should be similar enough to the T520. - MBR boot works fine, but GPT seems to be impossible (Lenovo appears to have messed up again). - The NVidia driver is working almost perfectly once you enforce it in BIOS, but occasionally (3 times in last 2.5 months) the screen starts displaying a strange block pattern after some time and renders the display unusable until I restart X (logging in via SSH works, as does the power button == ACPI shutdown). Haven't been able track the cause down yet. - Suspend seems to be unreliable, so I stopped trying (back on BETA2). - acpi_ibm.ko works once you patch sys/dev/acpi_support/acpi_ibm.c, line 338, and replace IBM0068 with LEN0068, which makes most of the multimedia keys usable. - Wireless is working (iwn), but I'm not using it that frequently so YMMV. - I cannot comment on bluetooth, camera or SD card reader, since I never use those. But there is one annoying problem I did not manage to fix yet: The screen brightness control does not work at all, i.e. it's always at maximum (hw.acpi.video sysctls seem to have no effect). All in all, this laptop is a nice desktop replacement, just don't expect the battery to last too long. Best regards When you say that suspending seems unreliable, do you mean that it sometimes work? Did you try unloading kernel modules before putting it in sleep mode to see if it makes a difference? About screen brightness, I thought there was a setting in xorg.conf that made it to work? Cheers Suspending the laptop seemed to work when I was not using X and running GENERIC. I tried again just now, first without unloading, then removing a few kernel modules, but it did not help. If I find time, I'll investigate further. If there is a setting to xorg.conf that does work for setting the screen brightness, please tell me. Everything I tried so far turned out negative, but maybe there's something I overlooked. cheers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Which Lenovo Laptop?
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 16:50:23 +0100, 띆井 Pierre wrote: If there is a setting to xorg.conf that does work for setting the screen brightness, please tell me. Everything I tried so far turned out negative, but maybe there's something I overlooked. Don't modern laptops come with keys (or key combinations, usually Fn + Cursor or Fn + PF key) to adjust brightness and contrast, or has this lowest-level functionality finally moved into the world of software, i. e. drivers? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Which Lenovo Laptop?
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 09:18:17 -0500 Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.net wrote: On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:03 AM, 文鳥 bunc...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I am typing this message on a W520 running 9.0 stable, which should be similar enough to the T520. - MBR boot works fine, but GPT seems to be impossible (Lenovo appears to have messed up again). - The NVidia driver is working almost perfectly once you enforce it in BIOS, but occasionally (3 times in last 2.5 months) the screen starts displaying a strange block pattern after some time and renders the display unusable until I restart X (logging in via SSH works, as does the power button == ACPI shutdown). Haven't been able track the cause down yet. - Suspend seems to be unreliable, so I stopped trying (back on BETA2). - acpi_ibm.ko works once you patch sys/dev/acpi_support/acpi_ibm.c, line 338, and replace IBM0068 with LEN0068, which makes most of the multimedia keys usable. - Wireless is working (iwn), but I'm not using it that frequently so YMMV. - I cannot comment on bluetooth, camera or SD card reader, since I never use those. But there is one annoying problem I did not manage to fix yet: The screen brightness control does not work at all, i.e. it's always at maximum (hw.acpi.video sysctls seem to have no effect). All in all, this laptop is a nice desktop replacement, just don't expect the battery to last too long. Best regards When you say that suspending seems unreliable, do you mean that it sometimes work? Did you try unloading kernel modules before putting it in sleep mode to see if it makes a difference? About screen brightness, I thought there was a setting in xorg.conf that made it to work? Cheers OK, now I feel foolish now: I _had_ tried the RegistryDwords EnableBrightnessControl=1 setting once, but had a typo in it and didn't notice. Now I brightness control also works. So the only remaining problem really is putting the machine to sleep. Should teach me not to accept failure to quickly ;) Best regards, and thanks for the tip. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Which Lenovo Laptop?
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 19:05:26 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 16:50:23 +0100, 띆井 Pierre wrote: If there is a setting to xorg.conf that does work for setting the screen brightness, please tell me. Everything I tried so far turned out negative, but maybe there's something I overlooked. Don't modern laptops come with keys (or key combinations, usually Fn + Cursor or Fn + PF key) to adjust brightness and contrast, or has this lowest-level functionality finally moved into the world of software, i. e. drivers? At first I thought so too, but apparently you need the right drivers to get some of the keys to work: Now I am finally able to control the brightness by pressing Fn + Home/End, but only thanks to the co-operation of the acpi_video acpi_ibm modules and the nvidia driver (which needs the RegistryDwords EnableBrightnessControl=1 option in xorg.conf). And just to make things more complicated: the keyboard light and mixer mute keys seem to still be hard-wired and thus do not need driver support... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Which Lenovo Laptop?
Hi, so which current 14 Lenovo laptop is the best for FreeBSD compatibility right now? Is it the T420 with the Nvidia card (Nvidia card forced in the BIOS)? Sleep modes work with the T420, right? And I guess Intel Wi-Fi cards are the most supported ones, right? Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Which Lenovo Laptop?
Hi, I am typing this message on a W520 running 9.0 stable, which should be similar enough to the T520. - MBR boot works fine, but GPT seems to be impossible (Lenovo appears to have messed up again). - The NVidia driver is working almost perfectly once you enforce it in BIOS, but occasionally (3 times in last 2.5 months) the screen starts displaying a strange block pattern after some time and renders the display unusable until I restart X (logging in via SSH works, as does the power button == ACPI shutdown). Haven't been able track the cause down yet. - Suspend seems to be unreliable, so I stopped trying (back on BETA2). - acpi_ibm.ko works once you patch sys/dev/acpi_support/acpi_ibm.c, line 338, and replace IBM0068 with LEN0068, which makes most of the multimedia keys usable. - Wireless is working (iwn), but I'm not using it that frequently so YMMV. - I cannot comment on bluetooth, camera or SD card reader, since I never use those. But there is one annoying problem I did not manage to fix yet: The screen brightness control does not work at all, i.e. it's always at maximum (hw.acpi.video sysctls seem to have no effect). All in all, this laptop is a nice desktop replacement, just don't expect the battery to last too long. Best regards ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Progress of Intel GEM/KMS/DRI laptop video driver?
I have read about a patch for Intel video that might make it into Release 9.0, is there any way to know if it is in 9.0-current? I installed the 9 beta 2 snapshot, but I don't think the video support was there. (Next time I will check the compatibility list!) The patch is for Intel laptop video support, and is mentioned here: http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2011/02/freebsd-foundation-announces-new.html The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Konstantin Belousov has been awarded a grant to implement support of GEM, KMS, and DRI for Intel Drivers. This project is being co-sponsored by iXsystems. The project is to implement GEM, port KMS, and write new DRI drivers for Intel Graphics, including the latest Sandy Bridge generation of integrated graphic units. The work should allow the latest Intel open-source driver to run on FreeBSD, expanding the range of hardware where FreeBSD is suitable for the desktop. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0
I have not used RAID before. I have a laptop (new to me) with windows 7 and RAID0. I want to install 8.2-Release and retain the Raid0. I booted the 8.2-Release AMD64 DVD and exited to Fixit. pciconf -lv shows atapci0@pci0:0:31:2: class=0x010400 card=0x159b103c chip=0x282a8086 rev=0x05 hdr=0x00 class= mass storage subclass=RAID I attached portions of dmesg below. sysinstall shows 3 choices for disk drives. ad4(600G), ad6(600G), ar0(RAID0) I want to use RAID0 and use the entire disk, partitioned by 'A'. Which disk do I select for installation? tomdean From dmesg, ad4: 610480MB TOSHIBA MK6461GSYN MH000C at ata2-master UDMA100 SATA 3Gb/s ad4: 1250263728 sectors [1240341C/16H/63S] 16 sectors/interrupt 1 depth queue GEOM: new disk ad4 battery0: battery initialization done, tried 1 times * ATA Intel MatrixRAID Metadata * intel_idIntel Raid ISM Cfg Sig. version 1.0.00 checksum0x18a624f5 config_size 0x01e0 config_id 0x07e20939 generation 0x0067 total_disks 2 total_volumes 1 DISK# serial disk_sectors disk_id flags 0 61ABD08TB 1250263728 0x 0x053a 1 61ABD08SB 1250263728 0x0001 0x053a nameRAID-0 total_sectors 2500517888 state 4108 reserved0 offset 0 disk_sectors1250259208 stripe_count19535296 stripe_sectors 64 status 0 typeRAID0 total_disks 2 magic[0]0x01 magic[1]0xff magic[2]0x01 disk 0 at disk_idx 0x disk 1 at disk_idx 0x0001 = ata3: Identifying devices: 0001 ata3: New devices: 0001 ata3-master: pio=PIO4 wdma=WDMA2 udma=UDMA100 cable=40 wire ad6: setting UDMA100 ad6: 610480MB TOSHIBA MK6461GSYN MH000C at ata3-master UDMA100 SATA 3Gb/s ad6: 1250263728 sectors [1240341C/16H/63S] 16 sectors/interrupt 1 depth queue GEOM: ad4: partition 4 does not start on a track boundary. GEOM: ad4: partition 4 does not end on a track boundary. GEOM: ad4: partition 3 does not start on a track boundary. GEOM: ad4: partition 3 does not end on a track boundary. GEOM: ad4: partition 2 does not start on a track boundary. GEOM: ad4: partition 2 does not end on a track boundary. GEOM: ad4: partition 1 does not start on a track boundary. GEOM: ad4: partition 1 does not end on a track boundary. GEOM: new disk ad6 * ATA Intel MatrixRAID Metadata * intel_idIntel Raid ISM Cfg Sig. version 1.0.00 checksum0x18a624f5 config_size 0x01e0 config_id 0x07e20939 generation 0x0067 total_disks 2 total_volumes 1 DISK# serial disk_sectors disk_id flags 0 61ABD08TB 1250263728 0x 0x053a 1 61ABD08SB 1250263728 0x0001 0x053a nameRAID-0 total_sectors 2500517888 state 4108 reserved0 offset 0 disk_sectors1250259208 stripe_count19535296 stripe_sectors 64 status 0 typeRAID0 total_disks 2 magic[0]0x01 magic[1]0xff magic[2]0x01 disk 0 at disk_idx 0x disk 1 at disk_idx 0x0001 = ata4: Identifying devices: 0001 ata4: New devices: 0001 ata4-master: pio=PIO4 wdma=WDMA2 udma=UDMA100 cable=40 wire acd0: setting UDMA100 ata4: device_reset timeout=590us acd0: hp BDDVDRW CA30N/EC03 DVDR drive at ata4 as master acd0: read 10820KB/s (4134KB/s) write 4134KB/s (4134KB/s), 2048KB buffer, UDMA100 SATA 1.5Gb/s acd0: Reads: CDR, CDRW, CDDA stream, DVDROM, DVDR, DVDRAM, packet acd0: Writes: CDR, CDRW, DVDR, DVDRAM, test write, burnproof acd0: Audio: play, 255 volume levels acd0: Mechanism: ejectable tray, unlocked acd0: Medium: DVD 120mm data disc ata5: Identifying devices: ata5: New devices: ATA PseudoRAID loaded ** ATA PseudoRAID ar0 Metadata ** = format Intel MatrixRAID typeRAID0 flags 0x01 1READY magic_0 0x07e20939 magic_1 0x generation 103 total_sectors 2500517888 offset_sectors 0 heads 255 sectors 63 cylinders 155650 width 2 interleave 64 total_disks 2 disk 0: flags = 0x0b bONLINE,ASSIGNED,PRESENT ad4: sectors 1250263728 disk 1: flags = 0x0b bONLINE,ASSIGNED,PRESENT ad6: sectors 1250263728 = ar0: 1220956MB Intel MatrixRAID RAID0 (stripe 32 KB) status: READY ar0: 2500517888 sectors [155650C/255H/63S] RAID-0 subdisks defined as: ar0: disk0 READY using ad4 at ata2-master ar0: disk1 READY using ad6 at ata3-master
Re: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0
Hi-- On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: sysinstall shows 3 choices for disk drives. ad4(600G), ad6(600G), ar0(RAID0) I want to use RAID0 and use the entire disk, partitioned by 'A'. Which disk do I select for installation? ar0 is the RAID-0 volume. However, I would advise against using Intel's Matrix pseudo-RAID for a boot volume, and I would also advise against using RAID-0 in most cases, unless you keep good backups. RAID-1 or RAID-10 are much safer-- use geom's gmirror. Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 11:26 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: sysinstall shows 3 choices for disk drives. ad4(600G), ad6(600G), ar0(RAID0) I want to use RAID0 and use the entire disk, partitioned by 'A'. Which disk do I select for installation? ar0 is the RAID-0 volume. However, I would advise against using Intel's Matrix pseudo-RAID for a boot volume, Why? I searched and did not find a reason to not use it. Just a few recommend against it without reasons. tomdean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
