From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 25 00:39:06 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A2716A400 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:39:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bakul@bitblocks.com) Received: from mail.bitblocks.com (ns1.bitblocks.com [64.142.15.60]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E96713C491 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:39:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bakul@bitblocks.com) Received: from bitblocks.com (localhost.bitblocks.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.bitblocks.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CA925B58; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:15:26 -0800 (PST) To: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:13:33 EST." <1169928813.7662.41.camel@RabbitsDen.RabbitsLawn.verizon.net> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:15:26 -0800 From: Bakul Shah Message-Id: <20070225001526.6CA925B58@mail.bitblocks.com> Cc: Frank Altpeter , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: external flatscreen with Thinkpad T42 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:39:06 -0000 > > (As Peter Jeremy had also suggested) I had already looked at > > Xorg.0.log prior to my initial email and I know mine > > (2378-DUU) does higher res than 1024x768 for external > > displays. I think what is happening is Xorg thinks both > > displays are on at the same time and chooses a common > > resolution. It does detect two 'CRTs' and also what each can > > do. Specifying 'screen 1' results in no display whatsoever. > > So I am onto something:-) > I run SuSE Linux on my T42 (this is work laptop and I am not given much > choice). Only way I have found so far to reliably use external monitor > (in my case -- projector) is to power it on and keep hitting Fn-F7 until > BIOS screen shows up on the projector. An update on this. I finally managed to get an external 1680x1050 display work at full res. with a T42. Since my T42 display is dead, I am using just the external one but during my experiments I was able to use it in dual-head mode though no idea how the internal display fares. And I didn't have to play any games with Fn-F7 or keeping the lid closed or anything. Even DRI works fine. Now the only problem is mplayer -vo xv shows a blue screen when I try to play a DVD (but does with with -vo x11). Orig. xorg file plagiarised from http://mg.pov.lt/xorg.conf Let me know if anyone wants my changes. From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 25 09:54:05 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30CB616A400 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 09:54:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kpitcher@KeithPitcher.com) Received: from stone.LocalLinkinc.net (secure.LocalLinkInc.Net [65.170.77.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0983F13C442 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 09:54:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kpitcher@KeithPitcher.com) Received: from antivirus.locallink.net (av.LocalLinkInc.Net [65.170.77.8]) by viruscanner.locallink.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B7BD438A2 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:20:52 -0500 (EST) Received: by stone.LocalLinkinc.net (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 101BF4389D; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:20:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from [65.170.77.69] (Pitcher.LocalLinkInc.Net [65.170.77.69]) by stone.LocalLinkinc.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C855E43883 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:20:51 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <45E15506.6080806@KeithPitcher.com> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:21:10 -0500 From: Keith Pitcher User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0b2 (Windows/20070116) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: HP pavillion dv6000 series wifi X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 09:54:05 -0000 I recently purchased a HP Pavilion dv6258se. I put 6.2 amd64 on it, and overall things are working well. I do have to boot with ACPI disabled or it freezes after seeing the harddrives. A few items aren't recognized - the Nvideo Go 6150 video (Although the default is working fine with X), audio and wifi. While audio would be nice, it's not that important.: none12@pci0:16:1: class=0x040300 card=0x30b7103c chip=0x026c10de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' class = multimedia The wifi would be the handiest to get working. PciConf lists it as : none13@pci3:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x1363103c chip=0x431114e4 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation' class = network if I try ndisgen with the HP vista 64 drivers, it says it creates the bcmwl664_sys.ko without errors. However a kldload locks up the system, and then it reboots automatically. Nothing shows up in /var/log/messages Looking at the ndis sourceforge list, I found some hp bcm4311 drivers from XP64, which created a bcmwl564_sys.ko. This kldloads without a lockup/reboot but gives errors and doesn't work. ndis0: mem 0xb320000 0-0xb3203fff at device 0.0 on pci3 kernel: ndis0: couldn't route interrupt kernel: device_attach: ndis0 attach returned 6 Can anyone point me in a direction to next try with the broadcom drivers? Thank you, Keith From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 25 11:16:29 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E02DF16A400 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:16:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from harmony.bsdimp.com (vc4-2-0-87.dsl.netrack.net [199.45.160.85]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0E5A13C48E for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:16:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.bsdimp.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l1PBGIEs056840; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:16:18 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:16:20 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20070225.041620.1192689525.imp@bsdimp.com> To: torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20070219215501.91cc50b3.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <20070219215501.91cc50b3.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0 (harmony.bsdimp.com [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:16:19 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Billionton LNA-100B not working with FreeBSD 6.x? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:16:30 -0000 In message: <20070219215501.91cc50b3.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Torfinn Ingolfsen writes: : I have a cuple of old PCCard NIC's; the LNA-100B from Billionton, more : info here: : http://www.billionton.com.tw/website/product/index.asp?code=LNA ... : I have tested this in two different laptops, both show the same error. : I would like to get these cards working in FreeBSD again. : Any hints on what to try next? Wow! That's one of the 16-bit PC Cards thatI don't have... What does devinfo -v show for the ed0 sub-tree? Looks like the MII read-back of the AX88790 isn't working for that card... Warner From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 25 17:48:12 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B16016A405 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:48:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) Received: from osl1smout1.broadpark.no (osl1smout1.broadpark.no [80.202.4.58]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE8E213C4A6 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:48:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) Received: from osl1sminn1.broadpark.no ([80.202.4.59]) by osl1smout1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JE1008HD5G6FHE0@osl1smout1.broadpark.no> for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:48:06 +0100 (CET) Received: from kg-work.kg4.no ([80.203.92.212]) by osl1sminn1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with SMTP id <0JE100A0R5G6NNJ0@osl1sminn1.broadpark.no> for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:48:06 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:48:06 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen X-Face: "t9w2,-X@O^I`jVW\sonI3.,36KBLZE*AL[y9lL[PyFD*r_S:dIL9c[8Y>V42R0"!"yb_zN,f#%.[PYYNq; m"_0v; ~rUM2Yy!zmkh)3&U|u!=T(zyv,MHJv"nDH>OJ`t(@mil461d_B'Uo|'nMwlKe0Mv=kvV?Nh@>Hb<3s_z2jYgZhPb@?Wi^x1a~Hplz1.zH In-reply-to: <20070225.041620.1192689525.imp@bsdimp.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-id: <20070225184806.f2d802c3.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <20070219215501.91cc50b3.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20070225.041620.1192689525.imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: Billionton LNA-100B not working with FreeBSD 6.x? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:48:12 -0000 On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:16:20 -0700 (MST) "M. Warner Losh" wrote: > Wow! That's one of the 16-bit PC Cards thatI don't have... > > What does devinfo -v show for the ed0 sub-tree? Looks like the MII > read-back of the AX88790 isn't working for that card... It shows this (ok, I grabbed a few extra lines as well): cbb0 pnpinfo vendor=0x104c device=0xac42 subvendor=0x1028 subdevice=0x00e6 class=0x060700 at slot=15 function=0 handle=\_SB_.PCI0.PCIE.CRD0 cardbus0 pccard0 ed1 pnpinfo manufacturer=0xffff product=0x1090 cisvendor="Billionton" cisproduct="LNA-100B" function_type=6 at function=0 miibus1 ukphy0 pnpinfo oui=0x6000 model=0x18 rev=0x0 at phyno=0 ukphy1 pnpinfo oui=0x6000 model=0x18 rev=0x0 at phyno=1 ukphy2 pnpinfo oui=0x6000 model=0x18 rev=0x0 at phyno=2 ukphy3 pnpinfo oui=0x6000 model=0x18 rev=0x0 at phyno=3 ukphy4 pnpinfo oui=0x6000 model=0x18 rev=0x0 at phyno=4 ukphy5 pnpinfo oui=0x6000 model=0x18 rev=0x0 at phyno=5 ukphy6 pnpinfo oui=0x6000 model=0x18 rev=0x0 at phyno=6 ukphy7 pnpinfo oui=0x6000 model=0x18 rev=0x0 at phyno=7 ukphy8 pnpinfo oui=0x6000 model=0x18 rev=0x0 at phyno=8 ukphy9 pnpinfo oui=0x6000 model=0x18 rev=0x0 at phyno=9 ukphy10 pnpinfo oui=0x6000 model=0x18 rev=0x0 at phyno=10 ukphy11 pnpinfo oui=0x6000 model=0x18 rev=0x0 at phyno=11 ukphy12 pnpinfo oui=0x6000 model=0x18 rev=0x0 at phyno=12 ukphy13 pnpinfo oui=0x6000 model=0x18 rev=0x0 at phyno=13 ukphy14 pnpinfo oui=0x6000 model=0x18 rev=0x0 at phyno=14 ukphy15 pnpinfo oui=0x6000 model=0x18 rev=0x0 at phyno=15 ukphy16 pnpinfo oui=0x602e model=0x31 rev=0x0 at phyno=16 cbb1 pnpinfo vendor=0x104c device=0xac42 subvendor=0x1028 subdevice=0x00e6 class=0x060700 at slot=15 function=1 handle=\_SB_.PCI0.PCIE.CRD1 cardbus1 pccard1 The full 'devinfo -v' output can be found here: http://tingox.googlepages.com/i81-devinfo_20070225.txt HTH -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 26 00:24:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 987A116A405; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:24:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: from ox.eicat.ca (ox.eicat.ca [66.96.30.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E0EE13C481; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:24:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: by ox.eicat.ca (Postfix, from userid 66) id 14EB0C223; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:05:39 -0500 (EST) Received: by canoe.dclg.ca (Postfix, from userid 101) id CA25A61C89; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:05:41 -0500 (EST) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17890.9301.758233.59066@canoe.dclg.ca> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:05:41 -0500 To: Nik Clayton In-Reply-To: <45DD632F.2080708@freebsd.org> References: <20070220191125.B2FB645042@ptavv.es.net> <45DD632F.2080708@freebsd.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 19) "Constant Variable" XEmacs Lucid Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop recommendations for 6.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:24:44 -0000 >>>>> "Nik" == Nik Clayton writes: Nik> Kevin Oberman wrote: >>> * Suspend to disk doesn't work >> And is not going to until someone writes the suspend to disk >> software for FreeBSD. Very few newer laptops do BIOS based suspend >> to disk. It's moved to the OS in Windows, so manufacturers don't >> waste money doing it any other way. Nik> When you say "Very few", do you have a list of those, know where Nik> I could find one, or know what I should be looking for (is there Nik> a particular standard, for example, that the laptop needs to Nik> support?). FreeBSD needs to grow a suspend/resume to/from disk. 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I had to take out BSD and work with another combination of OSes for about a year, and now it's time for me to reinstall BSD as the main OS. I therefore attempted to do a fresh install of 6.2, got the infamous message about corrected drive geometry right before proceeding with disk partitioning, and moved forward with installation since I've seen that message in previous installations and never had anomalies. This time, however, the installation is acting strangely. It randomly goes to the "mountroot>" prompt when booted in normal mode, even though 'fstab' is correctly set to boot from '/dev/ad0s3a'. When I try to type the correct root partition at the 'mountroot' prompt, it will refuse to boot from it and restart the laptop if I press another key. This same behaviour happens randomly when I boot in Single User Mode. Safe Mode appears to be the only mode that correctly boots to a prompt. I have not been able to reproduce the issue in a consistent manner to share with you what might be triggering this. I also downloaded a whole new ISO and burned it on another CD from another burner (you see here that I am becoming paranoid) but the results, unfortunately, are the same. Just in case it might help, here are a few more details on the Disk configuration + hardware specifications: - 'ad0s1a' is NTFS and is hosting WinXP - 'ad0s2a' is FAT32 for plain storage - 'ad0s3a' is FreeBSD The Laptop is Centrino-based with a Pentium-M (Sonoma Core, 533FSB). The HDD I am using is an early model Hitachi HTS726060M9AT00, 60GB 7200rpm. A copy of the Laptop specs can be viewed here: http://cs.fiu.edu/~wcang001/bs/TecraM3_specs.pdf An output of 'dmesg' I collected one of the times it booted correctly can be viewed here: http://www.cs.fiu.edu/~wcang001/fBSD/TecraM3_dmesg If you need any further details, by all means let me know. Thank you in advance! -Walter