From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Sep 1 10:26:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA10768 for mobile-outgoing; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 10:26:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from public.bta.net.cn (public.bta.net.cn [202.96.0.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA10760 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 10:26:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from monet ([202.98.99.150]) by public.bta.net.cn (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA01569 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 01:26:31 +0900 (CDT) Message-ID: <340AFA4E.40B0@public.bta.net.cn> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 01:24:30 +0800 From: Yong Liu Reply-To: yongliu@public.bta.net.cn Organization: Unisoft Technology Co. Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: [Fwd: Notebook Problem] Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.18]) by public.bta.net.cn (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA26723; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 17:52:50 +0900 (CDT) Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id CAA23353; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 02:34:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA23184 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 02:31:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from public.bta.net.cn (public.bta.net.cn [202.96.0.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA23178 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 02:31:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from monet ([202.98.99.165]) by public.bta.net.cn (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA24799 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 17:31:21 +0900 (CDT) Message-ID: <34069651.330E@public.bta.net.cn> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 17:28:49 +0800 From: Yong Liu Reply-To: yongliu@public.bta.net.cn Organization: Unisoft Technology Co. Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Notebook Problem Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.2 on a Twinhead 9133TZ notebook PC w/ the folloing configuration: Pentium 133/16M Memory/1.3G HD 12.1" TFT Display (Supports 800x600 at 60Hz non-interlaced) Trident Cyber 9385 card (2M memory) I also have a NE-2000 compatible PCMCIA card inserted into slot 1 into the PCMCIA dock. This dock has a Cirrus Logic PCMCIA controller built-in. The poblem I encountered are: 1. I could not make the PCMCIA recognized by FreeBSD. I reconfigured the kernel to include the PCCARD controllers and devices according the LINT config template. I also added the ed0 driver. It complains that "/dev/card0 not configured." when I run the "pccardc" command. BTW, this PCMCIA card really works fine under Win95. If changing the card may overcome this problem, I have a D-Link DE650 PCMCIA ethernet card at hand. 2. I have installed the XFree86 3.3.1 on my notebook. It runs good under the VGA16 mode when I set the following config: Video: VGA Chipset: Generic Card: Unsupported VGA Monitor: Standard 640x480 H-Refresh: 35.4 V-Refresh: 50-90 If I set the chipset to cyber938x, the screen gets a very low resolution with big dots. I tried the following configuration too: Video: SVGA Chipset: cyber938x Card: Trident TGUI9680 (generic) Monitor: Extended Super VGA (800x600 at 60Hz ...) H-Refresh: 31.5,35.4,... V-Refresh: 50-130 An what I got was a black screen after the "startx" command. But when I tried to switch between ttyv9 (graphic) and other ttys using the "CTL-ALT-F?" key combinations, I could see the xterm and xclock windows for a very short time (about 0.1 sec) and the screen went black again. I have read all the on-line documents, readmes and tried almost anything I could think out of. Could anybody give me some hints on these strange stuff? Or is FreeBSD is not so good as other free UNIX clones like Linux ? Your happy or bad experiences with FreeBSD on a notebook are also highly welcomed. Thank you in advance.