From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Jun 8 21: 7:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-206-88-224.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.88.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED2E337BC66 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 21:07:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA01358; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 21:11:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200006090411.VAA01358@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: rdls@rdls.net Cc: FreeBSD Mobile Subject: Re: apm and 5.0-CURRENT and Dell Inspiron In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 08 Jun 2000 13:17:11 BST." <393F8EC7.15D0C207@trltech.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 21:11:24 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message