Re: Lenovo E320: strange things happen with X
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Rod Whitworth glis...@witworx.com wrote: dmesg is under the story, of course. I have been following 5.0 current through 5.1 beta updating from CVS and building through to release and a CD so that I can track stuff. When my smooth red new Thinkpad arrived I decided to use it to try out my latest 5.1beta CD. So I shoved win7 aside and left a big chunk of space for the A6 beauty. I even got game and allowed it to boot into X. Big mistake. As soon as I tried to switch to a Vconsole it seemed like the whole thing siezed up. That is really true as we will see later. Next I booted from the CD and used the install shell to comment out the rc.conf.local xdm line on the mounted sd0a/etc. Rebooting let me log in to a console session and I fired up sshd so that another box could log in running top so that I could tell if the thing was truly locked-up. Running startx presented me with the default wndow and I could do stuff there but attempting to go to another console session made it look to be frozen but the remote box running top over ssh proved that it was not. I found out that if I did Ctl-Alt-F5 on the dead X window, it brought X back to life Having done as well as I could in choosing a Tpad with mostly OpenBSD friendly bits, I don't like the idea of just running a bunch of glass teleprinters. It's a known bug with Intel Sandybridge: support for this GPU is far from being optimal. ciao, David
Re: Lenovo E320: strange things happen with X
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:48:35 +0100, David Coppa wrote: It's a known bug with Intel Sandybridge: support for this GPU is far from being optimal. There goes $552.59 ... ;(( I guess I'd bettr watch the commit messages closely for good news. We live in hope. Thanx for the message, even if it's bad news. I don't have to try lots of desperate tricks to investigate further. *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I am subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address is provided for those who feel compelled to reply off list. Thankyou. Rod/ --- This life is not the real thing. It is not even in Beta. If it was, then OpenBSD would already have a man page for it.
Re: Lenovo E320: strange things happen with X
On 14 February 2012 11:41, Rod Whitworth glis...@witworx.com wrote: There goes $552.59 ... ;(( I guess I'd bettr watch the commit messages closely for good news. We live in hope. Thanx for the message, even if it's bad news. I don't have to try lots of desperate tricks to investigate further. The public dmesg database is at: http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=dmesgd hth Fred
Re: Lenovo E320: strange things happen with X
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:34:43 +, Fred Crowson wrote: On 14 February 2012 11:41, Rod Whitworth glis...@witworx.com wrote: There goes $552.59 ... ;(( I guess I'd bettr watch the commit messages closely for good news. We live in hope. Thanx for the message, even if it's bad news. I don't have to try lots of desperate tricks to investigate further. The public dmesg database is at: http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=dmesgd hth Fred Thanks Fred, If you come back to Aussie sometime I'll buy you a beer. Boags if you like! Rod/
Re: Lenovo E320: strange things happen with X
OpenBSD 5.1-beta (GENERIC.MP) #5: Tue Feb 7 08:26:54 EST 2012 r...@nero.witworx.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP Is it a custom built kernel ?
Re: Lenovo E320: strange things happen with X
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:23:34 +0200, Mihai Popescu wrote: OpenBSD 5.1-beta (GENERIC.MP) #5: Tue Feb 7 08:26:54 EST 2012 r...@nero.witworx.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP Is it a custom built kernel ? No way. I just update from CVS and build as per the FAQ instructions. In fact I have all of it scripted and I simply run each of the nine scripts and end up with a CD. Custom kernels are the product of true geniuses and fools. The gap between them is wide. I'm not a genius but I'm smart enough to know my limitations. :-) *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I am subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address is provided for those who feel compelled to reply off list. Thankyou. Rod/ --- This life is not the real thing. It is not even in Beta. If it was, then OpenBSD would already have a man page for it.
Re: Lenovo E320: strange things happen with X
On 14 February 2012 12:48, Rod Whitworth glis...@witworx.com wrote: /snipped Boags if you like! The true nectar - the OpenBSD of beers ;~)
