Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron
On Oct 6, 2004, at 12:20 AM, Igor Partola wrote: [ ... ] 1) My touchpad is an ALPS touchpad. When I had Linux running on this machine I had to patch the kernel so it would work with a synaptics ALPS driver (within synaptics there is a file called alps.patch). FreeBSD recognizes the touchpad as an ALPS glidepoint, but the sensetivity is terrible! I use moused and X11 uses /dev/sysmouse, so I tried to tweak with moused options. I managed to speed up the pointer but it gets really hard to point precisely. (In Windows where I can use the native driver from Apoint it is a lot smoother). Any solutions? There have been some recent discussions about that kind of touchpad. You might have to update from 5.2.1 to a more recent 5.3-beta in order to obtain improvements, but man psm under 5.3 mentions: bit 11 FORCETAP Some pad devices report as if the fourth button is pressed when the user `taps' the surface of the device (see CAVEATS). This flag will make the psm driver assume that the device behaves this way. Without the flag, the driver will assume this behavior for ALPS GlidePoint models only. [ ... ] CAVEATS Many pad devices behave as if the first (left) button were pressed if the user `taps' the surface of the pad. In contrast, some pad products, e.g. some versions of ALPS GlidePoint and Interlink VersaPad, treat the tap- ping action as fourth button events. It is reported that Interlink VersaPad requires both HOOKRESUME and INITAFTERSUSPEND flags in order to recover from suspended state. These flags are automatically set when VersaPad is detected by the psm driver. Perhaps try setting: hint.psm.0.flags=0x800 ...in /boot/device.hints...and see whether that helps. 2) The ACPI partially works: S1 is supported but it'd be nice to turn off the screen with it. By the way if I disable ACPI (acpiconf -d), closing the lid turns off the screen. Is there a config file or something I could edit? 3) S3 sleep state reboots the computer. Has anybody gotten it working? Is there an expected fix of it? Likewise, there has been a fair number of improvements to ACPI power management support between 5.2.1 and 5.3; updating to a more recent version is likely to help. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron
Good time of day. Recently I installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 on my Dell Inspiron 8600. It works great, everything except for the winmodem got detected right away. I have however a few things I'd like to tweak that I don't seem to be able to do. Namely: 1) My touchpad is an ALPS touchpad. When I had Linux running on this machine I had to patch the kernel so it would work with a synaptics ALPS driver (within synaptics there is a file called alps.patch). FreeBSD recognizes the touchpad as an ALPS glidepoint, but the sensetivity is terrible! I use moused and X11 uses /dev/sysmouse, so I tried to tweak with moused options. I managed to speed up the pointer but it gets really hard to point precisely. (In Windows where I can use the native driver from Apoint it is a lot smoother). Any solutions? 2) The ACPI partially works: S1 is supported but it'd be nice to turn off the screen with it. By the way if I disable ACPI (acpiconf -d), closing the lid turns off the screen. Is there a config file or something I could edit? 3) S3 sleep state reboots the computer. Has anybody gotten it working? Is there an expected fix of it? I would appreciate all help. Thanks and respect, Igor ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: nVidia drivers on FreeBSD 5.2.1 (Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop)
Tried /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver and doing make install...worked great and gave some instructions about doing a make setup which doesn't exist. After thatstill getting this when I try to get X running. I've included my XF86Config snip at the bottom just for giggles. ERROR SNIP (WW) NVIDIA: Chipset GeForce2 Go in Device section NVIDIA GeForce 2 isn't valid for this driver. (EE) No devices detected Fatal server error: No screens found /ERROR SNIP My XF86Config file snip Section Device Identifier NVIDIA GeForce 2 VendorName NVIDIA BoardName GeForce2 Go Driver nvidia BoardName GeForce2 Go ChipSetGeForce2 Go BusID PCI:1:0:0 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device NVIDIA GeForce 2 MonitorMonitor0 ... ... EndSection /My XF86Config file snip ARG Ralph ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SOLVED: RE: nVidia drivers on FreeBSD 5.2.1 (Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop)
OK - I resolve to the fact that I just can't read error messages. I commented out the chipset portion...and voila...everything works like a CHARM. Sorry to waste everyone's time with a completely stupid mistake. -Original Message- From: Ralph M. Los Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 6:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Frank Knobbe Subject: RE: nVidia drivers on FreeBSD 5.2.1 (Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop) Tried /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver and doing make install...worked great and gave some instructions about doing a make setup which doesn't exist. After thatstill getting this when I try to get X running. I've included my XF86Config snip at the bottom just for giggles. ERROR SNIP (WW) NVIDIA: Chipset GeForce2 Go in Device section NVIDIA GeForce 2 isn't valid for this driver. (EE) No devices detected Fatal server error: No screens found /ERROR SNIP My XF86Config file snip Section Device Identifier NVIDIA GeForce 2 VendorName NVIDIA BoardName GeForce2 Go Driver nvidia BoardName GeForce2 Go ChipSetGeForce2 Go BusID PCI:1:0:0 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device NVIDIA GeForce 2 MonitorMonitor0 ... ... EndSection /My XF86Config file snip ARG Ralph ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nVidia drivers on FreeBSD 5.2.1 (Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop)
Hi, Me again...now that I have my Cisco 350 working...I have X working fine - and I've downloaded what appears to be the latest 1.0-4365 driver from nVidia.com. I've tried to get the driver working - but no luck. Below is my XF86Config file...but it doesn't appear to work - how can I determine what the proper parameters are? Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 VendorName Monitor Vendor ModelNameMonitor Model HorizSync31.5 - 82.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 100.0 EndSection Section Device ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False, ### string: String, freq: f Hz/kHz/MHz ### [arg]: arg optional #Option SWcursor # [bool] #Option HWcursor # [bool] #Option NoAccel # [bool] #Option ShowCache # [bool] #Option ShadowFB # [bool] #Option UseFBDev # [bool] #Option Rotate# [str] #Option VideoKey # i #Option FlatPanel # [bool] #Option FPDither # [bool] #Option CrtcNumber# i Identifier Device Driver nvidia VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName NV11 [GeForce2 Go] ChipSet GeForce2 Go BusID PCI:1:0:0 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Device MonitorMonitor0 DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Depth 16 EndSubSection The line marked above is the one that causes me the concern. Please help - I'm trying to get this working with the official nVidia drivers. Ralph -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + Ralph | Internet Systems Security + + Boundariez.com | -Specializing in Paranoia- + -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + ralph[!at]boundariez[dot!]com | Never understimate the power + +AIM: SekurityWizard | stupid people + +ICQ: 2206039|in large groups+ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nVidia drivers on FreeBSD 5.2.1 (Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop)
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 11:19:01PM -0500, Ralph M. Los wrote: Hi, Me again...now that I have my Cisco 350 working...I have X working fine - and I've downloaded what appears to be the latest 1.0-4365 driver from nVidia.com. I've tried to get the driver working - but no luck. Below is my XF86Config file...but it doesn't appear to work - how can I determine what the proper parameters are? Try using the nvidia-driver port, it may set things up differently (correctly) on 5.x. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
