Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 00:03:50 -0500 (CDT) From: Trenton Schulz <twschulz@gloria.cord.edu> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 and FreeBSD 4.3 Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.32.0104142340430.13509-100000@gloria.cord.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20010415015844.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Hi, > I recently got a i8000 for work and so far I am fairly pleased with the success > I am having. Currently the internal modem and ethernet work, USB works and X is > running. Just wondering? But does your Inspiron 8000 use the ATI Mobility and have a builtin DVD drive? I had a couple problems that I can't seem to figure out, and haven't annoyed me enough to do something about it... With X, sometimes, when I'm leaving the graphics mode(switching consoles or ending my X session) the screen does a fade to a nice bright white and locks up the machine, causing me to swear and hard reboot the notebook. This is with XFree86 4.0.2 on up (I couldn't get a configuration to work with XFree86-3). I'm wondering if it's my hardware or XFree86-4 not as ready for primetime status. My DVD drive isn't detected unless I wait for about a minute to boot the kernel (by setting the autoboot to 60). If I don't wait that long then I get "ad0 identity retires exceeded" or something along those lines (don't have the dmesg handy :( It didn't happen when I installed from a 4.0 disk I had hanging around, nor if you use the old wd drivers From the archives it sounds like it is a bug that crept in around the end of August 2000 and has stuck around. The annoying part was that I was gonna try and see what happened in the offending part of code, but since it took me longer that an minute to get there the probe succeeds and I couldn't figure out what happened (I'm not a seasoned kernel debugger). Anyway just wondering if anyone else is having a problem. Other than that, everything I use it for works peachy (never had a problem w/sound, I used the old maestro3 driver and the current one). > > Also, I can't suspend/resume which I am told is because of a BIOS bug which > sucks but there's not much to be done about that :) > (I can induce a suspend/resume OK but when the laptop comes back the fxp card > spits millions of 'SCB timeout' and 'DMA timeout', and it seems the ata > controller wedges, or doesn't reinit the controller). > > Attached is the output of the boot process and my kernel config. > > --- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum > -- Trenton Schulz twschulz@cord.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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