Date: 05 Jan 2002 22:43:24 -0500 From: "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> To: Ben Lovett <blovett@bsdguru.com> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8k and ATI Rage Mobility 128 Message-ID: <1010288609.25239.28.camel@vpn92.ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020105190148.A7553@bsdguru.com> References: <20020105190148.A7553@bsdguru.com>
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On Sat, 2002-01-05 at 22:01, Ben Lovett wrote: > I have been running FreeBSD on my I8K since June of 2001, with XFree86 > 4.x on a ATI Rage Mobility 128 video card. And, because I opted to get > the 1600x1200 resolution screen I have been running at that since then. > But... because I tend to value my eyesight, I would like to decrease the > resolution to something like 1280x1024. That all works great, until I > decide to switch to the console, and then the display fades to white and > I have to power off the machine without a shutdown :-( > > So, as to my question.. Does anyone have a system like this running at a > resolution like what I am looking for? As to my system setup. I am > running 4.4-STABLE built on December 19, with XFree86 4.1.0 patchlevel > 7. My 5000e with 1600x1200 display does that sometimes; it's less common with recent XFree86 patchlevels, and in fact I can currently only trigger it by doing a suspend/resume while X is running. (Even if I switch to a text VC before suspending.) -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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