From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Jun 6 20:33:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from zephir.primus.ca (mail.tor.primus.ca [216.254.136.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A19AD37B405 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 20:33:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialin-142-109.hamilton.primus.ca ([209.90.142.109]) by zephir.primus.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #16) id 17GAVd-00065b-0A for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2002 23:33:53 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 23:33:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Jason Hunt X-X-Sender: leth@lethargic.dyndns.org To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X4.2 Broken on 4.6RC?? In-Reply-To: <200206062118.g56LIK814466@king.jhs.private> Message-ID: <20020606232219.H70637-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > We mobile owners will need to be more cautious than tower owners > going from 4.5 to 4.6, as we won't have their possibility to swap > out graphic cards with no longer supported chips. I'm going to > tread carefully with mine when the time comes, & perhaps need to > delete 4.2 & install an old 3.3.6 if necessary. > I installed 4.2 overtop of 3.3.6 and it compiled/installed without any problems. However, I don't know if any of my applications work because I can't get it configured properly. :( I think my problem is getting resolution and rates correct for the LCD, since the video driver doesn't give any real errors. I just get vertical multi-coloured lines or a blank screen. Although, I'm even using the same ModeLine's from the 3.3.6 config, so I'm pretty stumped. Maybe LCDs are harder to configure? Or atleast different modelines? It's an IBM ThinkPad 560E with a Trident 9660 and 12.1" LCD, incase anyone else has something similar. Definitely backup your system, or atleast /usr/X11R6, before installing 4.2. Anyone ever tried going back to 3.3.6 after installing 4.x? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message