Re: Laptop update...

From: Ben Laurie <ben_at_algroup.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 14:19:25 +0100
Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 12:25:07PM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
> 
>>None of you will remember I was having trouble with my laptop (IBM
>>Thinkpad A31p) and RELENG_5_0.
>>
>>These have largely been fixed - the display works with the new X server,
>> and APM works OK.
>>
>>I do have two changes in device.hints:
>>
>>hint.vga.0.at="isa"
>>
>>is commented out (though I've forgotten why!), and:
>>
>>hint.apm.0.disabled=1
>>
>>has been changed to:
>>
>>hint.acpi.0.disabled=1
>>
>>loader.conf has:
>>
>>hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1
>>snd_maestro3_load="YES"
>>
>>so, where does this leave me? Well, the display still dies if I am in X
>>and the screen times out - I can reboot blind, but I can't get the
>>screen back - am I missing a trick?
>>
>>Sound doesn't work (there is no entry in /dev).
>>
>>The onboard WiFi doesn't work (Intersil Prism2.5) - its recognised, but
>>it won't associate. An old Lucent WaveLAN (with recent flash) card works
>>fine, however.
>>
> 
> I've got mine working by setting hw.cbb.start_memory=0xd8000 in
> /boot/loader.conf (or at run-time using sysctl(8)).  This is on
> ThinkPad 600X.

This made no difference - what is it supposed to do?

Cheers,

Ben.

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