Laptop update...

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.

But most importantly, perhaps, when I do:

portupgrade -Rra

it almost never completes, because I get coredumps in cc (and
occasionally weirder symptoms, like illegal instructions). I know this
is usually attributed to RAM, but I've tried swapping that out - so,
what else can I fiddle with that might affect this (and the other
problems)? More info available on demand, of course.

Cheers,

Ben.

-- 
http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html       http://www.thebunker.net/

"There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he
doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff