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Date:      Thu, 08 Jun 2000 21:11:24 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        rdls@rdls.net
Cc:        FreeBSD Mobile <mobile@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: apm and 5.0-CURRENT and Dell Inspiron 
Message-ID:  <200006090411.VAA01358@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Jun 2000 13:17:11 BST." <393F8EC7.15D0C207@trltech.co.uk> 

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> I decided to trash a perfectly good 3.4-PAO installation on my Dell
> Inspiron 7500 and replace it with the 5.0-20000506-CURRENT snapshot on
> disk one of the June 2000 toolkit.
> 
> The installation went like a dream and everything was back up an running
> within a couple of hours. Except for two minor problems:
> 
> 1) apm which worked on 3.4-PAO does not even appear in dmesg (output
> attached), although it is listed in GENERIC.

You probably left the 'disable' keyword in your kernel config.

(I can say this with certainty, becuse I use APM (heavily) on my 7500 all 
 the time.)

> 2) xli with the -fillscreen option paints a white screen.

With no data at all on your X setup, this is impossible to guess at, but 
it sounds like another configuration error.


-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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