Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:14:06 -0500 (EST) From: Jason Hunt <leth@primus.ca> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Subject: Re: XF86-4 on TP560? Message-ID: <20021028121304.N40751-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20021026010209.J673-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
> I've managed to get X running on my "new" TP560 (Cyber9385 according to
> XF86-3) but XF86-4 will not work. All I get out of it is corrupted
> displays (looks like sync issues, but on a TFT?) Taking the working
> modelines from my version 3 config file doesn't work either.
>
> Anyone have any pointers?
>
Here's a message I wrote about a year ago regarding my 560E and XFree86-4:
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:57:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jason Hunt <leth@primus.ca>
To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc: "[X-UNKNOWN] Eric Hedstrm" <erich@ucsd.edu>,
Martin Power <m.d.power@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: ibm thinkpad portables
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Martin Power wrote:
> please send archives copy or how to access. my thinkpad 560x works
> passibly well
> with debian 2.2 linux as a personal desktop. will it work at all or
> better with freeBsd 4.x ?
> thanks
I have a 560e that works great. XFree86 3.3.6 took a little bit of time
and googling to get the resolution right (Trident video), but it works.
Sound (SounBlaster 16) was simple, I just had to use the PS2.EXE utility
to find out the correct resouses to configure the kernel. This model does
not have an internal NIC or modem, so I don't know about any problems you
might have with those. FYI, for PCMCIA cards I have a 3Com Etherlink III
(3C589D) NIC, USRobotics Megahertz 33.6 modem, and a Lucent Orinoco Silver
wireless card.
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Eric Hedstrm wrote:
> It runs quite well with XFree86 3.3.6; I haven't tried X
> 4.x.
I don't know if this applies to the whole 560 series, or just the 560e,
but there is a thread in the XFree86-developers archive regarding problems
with this model of a ThinkPad and 4.x. I think the discussion ended with
something in the IBM BIOS not letting XFree86 talk to the vidoe card
properly. Either way, 4.x will not work on the 560e. I tried it for a
good week before going back to 3.3.6.
Hope this helps.
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