> On Nov 27, 2016, at 11:24 AM, Bryan Vyhmeister <br...@bsdjournal.net> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 09:03:40AM -0600, jordon wrote: >> I have UEFI disabled in BIOS - I think initially I had a problem >> getting it to boot with it on so I turned it off and that made it >> work. >> >> I have not touched xorg.conf and I didn???t notice anything suspicious >> in the log. It always drops me back to terminal when i close X and >> gives me about 30 seconds or so before it locks. > > If I remember correctly, UEFI works fine as long as CSM is enabled but I > am not positive at the moment. I would have to look at my settings. I > would suggest you backup and reinstall with UEFI which provides efifb(4) > and then you could use wsfb(4) as well (with the xorg.conf I posted > previously). Using wsfb(4) is much faster than vesa(4) as well. > > If you do not want to do that or if you want to do more tests first, you > could also try starting up top(1) immediately after exiting X and see if > some process is using a lot of CPU or something. Also, have you tried > pinging your system when it appears to be frozen. If that works, can you > try accessing it via ssh? If those do not work, it seems likely to be a > true hard freeze. Others with more suggestions will probably have to > comment here since I am not sure what other ways would work best to try > to narrow down what might be causing a hard freeze. If you are willing > to do the reinstall, I think you will end up with a better experience > overall and hopefully your freeze will disappear. I am running most of > my desktop and laptop systems with UEFI now and have had no issues. I > still use traditional booting for servers at this point since there is > no advantage as of yet to UEFI booting for servers. > > Bryan
I spent the better part of yesterday afternoon playing with this machine and pretty much did exactly what you described (UEFI on, backup, reinstall, custom xorg.conf) and it is working now! The main terminal (as in, when X is not running) is now using a smaller zone in the middle of the display, which is kind of annoying, but I am usually in X anyway so it’s not that big of a problem. My goal is to make the x260 “my machine”. I have a mac, i have a windows 10 system, but i want this to be my “open” system. So far, so good! I am learning cwm and am really growing to like it. I have conky drawing a bar on top that shows some system status info (though I have been unable to get it to display battery info so far). My next goal is to get more of the function keys working. The volume buttons work but i don’t think any of the other ones do (screen brightness, keyboard backlight, wifi on/off). I’m not sure how much of this is waiting for skylake support or just some new things that need to be added to acpithinkpad(4). If it is the latter, where do I read up on how to add acpi capabilities? Thanks again for the help! Jordon
