irq conflict laptop with 5.1-current

2003-10-23 Thread Ronald Klop
Hello, Running my laptop Compaq Armada 7400 with 5.1-CURRENT from about two days ago. The OHCI (USB) is on IRQ 11 and the PCCARD/CARDBUS also. I now get a 'arp: unknown hardware address format (0x)' errors. The 0x can also be 0x2063 or oxfc00 or something else. I think it's an irq

Re: irq conflict laptop with 5.1-current

2003-10-23 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:45:28 +0200 From: Ronald Klop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Forwarding to -current; -questions and searching the net didn't give an answer.) Hello, Running my laptop Compaq Armada 7400 with 5.1-CURRENT from about two days ago. The OHCI (USB

Laptop and DHCP

2003-09-29 Thread Christopher M. Hobbs
Greetings! I suppose this is a newbie question, but I figured I'd give these lists a shot. I just installed FreeBSD 5.0 on my laptop, and I have a 3COM Megahertz PCMCIA card (Model 3CCE589ET to be exact). I have a cable modem (I'm using DCHP with that) that goes into a Linksys router and 4 port

Re: Laptop and DHCP

2003-09-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 29 September 2003 at 14:38:38 -0500, Christopher M. Hobbs wrote: Greetings! I suppose this is a newbie question, but I figured I'd give these lists a shot. I just installed FreeBSD 5.0 on my laptop, and I have a 3COM Megahertz PCMCIA card (Model 3CCE589ET to be exact). I have

FreeBSD 5.1Release on Compaq Presario Laptop.

2003-09-16 Thread Nikhil Kale
Hi, I have just installed FreeBSD 5.1 - Release on my laptop Compaq Presario 2132. Everything's working fine, but I have a couple of doubts. 1. My console does'nt cover the entire screen of my laptop. It only appears in a middle rectangular area of the screen. How do I fix this to cover

no APM or X support for IBM A20p laptop in 4.8

2003-09-15 Thread Kip Macy
I just installed 4.8 from the BSDMall CD on my 3 year old IBM A20p. APM worked in 4.6 but no longer does. FreeBSD's XFree86 never worked (RedHat has always worked just fine). I have a commercial X server that worked fine under 4.6 but was broken by changes to libc in 4.8. Has anyone else gotten

Re: laptop booting issue

2003-09-11 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 07:55:10PM -0700, lists wrote: William O'Higgins wrote: I recently installed FreeBSD 4.8 on a ThinkPad 600X. The install seemed to go fine, but when I reboot and I look at the menu, I have two choices - F1 DOS, F2 FreeBSD. There is nothing on the DOS partition, so I

laptop booting issue

2003-09-10 Thread William O'Higgins
I recently installed FreeBSD 4.8 on a ThinkPad 600X. The install seemed to go fine, but when I reboot and I look at the menu, I have two choices - F1 DOS, F2 FreeBSD. There is nothing on the DOS partition, so I want to press F2. There isn't any response however. If I hit F1 it tries to boot

Re: laptop booting issue

2003-09-10 Thread lists
William O'Higgins wrote: I recently installed FreeBSD 4.8 on a ThinkPad 600X. The install seemed to go fine, but when I reboot and I look at the menu, I have two choices - F1 DOS, F2 FreeBSD. There is nothing on the DOS partition, so I want to press F2. There isn't any response however. If I

Laptop Problems

2003-08-30 Thread Kim Needham
I recently got a new Asus laptop. I went to place FreeBSD 4.8 on it, but it kept hanging on detecting the HDD. So I tried 5.1 instead which installed fine. I have run into several problems with the hardware. The first is that the 3 Com Gigabit card (from the 3com site it looks like a 3C2000-T

Problem installing FreeBSD from DVD drive (IBM laptop)

2003-08-29 Thread MeTaLmAn
Hi! I tried (many many times) to install Freebsd in my IBM laptop and I had this problem: the laptop doesnt have a floppy drive, it only have one hd and one dvd drive. So, I configured the BIOS to boot from DVD drive, then HD. when I turned the laptop on with the BSD cd rom on it, it started

Re: PCM on my laptop is broken

2003-08-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chipp Zanuff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have problem with my laptop;it freezes/crashes on BOOT when I compile device pcm into the kernel. I tried loading snd_pcm, but nothign happens. kldstat shows snd_pcm, but no entries in /dev also, there aren;t any messages in /var/logs/messages

ed1 network problems on laptop

2003-08-21 Thread Michael A. Smith
I've got a Sony VAIO PCG-FX101 (vanilla Celeron 600 laptop). It's run FreeBSD without a problem before. I just installed a new hard drive and installed 4.8-RELEASE on it. Now, I'm having all kinds of network problems that I didn't have a few days ago with the exact same hardware/OS (except

PCM on my laptop is broken

2003-08-19 Thread Chipp Zanuff
Hi, I have problem with my laptop;it freezes/crashes on BOOT when I compile device pcm into the kernel. I tried loading snd_pcm, but nothign happens. kldstat shows snd_pcm, but no entries in /dev also, there aren;t any messages in /var/logs/messages when i kldload the sound module. i tried

Re: New laptop install via wireless just isn't working

2003-08-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
Noone's installed FreeBSD on a laptop via a PCMCIA wlan card? At this point, I'd even settle for it's possible, but not on *your* hardware. -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Sound under laptop

2003-08-17 Thread geek
I'm completely puzzled about soundcards under freebsd, i have read the respective chapter in the handbook but i dont found a good relation with my laptop (compaq 725) soundacard that's: 16-Bit Sound Blaster CompatibleJBL Proi Audio System c/ Bass Reflex # kldload snd # cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD

New laptop install via wireless just isn't working

2003-08-16 Thread Kirk Strauser
I was given a little 486 laptop. I bought a Microsoft MN-520 PCMCIA wlan card and verified that it works perfectly under Linux on that laptop. I'm trying to replace Linux with FreeBSD on that machine, but I can't get sysinstall to recognize the NIC. To date, I've gone as far as patching

Re: VMWare and FreeBSD 4.8 on my laptop

2003-08-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Peter Nugter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am sorry if this is the wrong mail address but - as a newbe - I have a question. I installed on my laptop (using Windows XP; SP 1) VMWare 4 which runs O.K. I installed a virtual machine (VMWare 4) and was able to install FreeBSD 4.8 as a guest

VMWare and FreeBSD 4.8 on my laptop

2003-08-01 Thread Peter Nugter
I am sorry if this is the wrong mail address but - as a newbe - I have a question. I installed on my laptop (using Windows XP; SP 1) VMWare 4 which runs O.K. I installed a virtual machine (VMWare 4) and was able to install FreeBSD 4.8 as a guest on it. Although the configuration of XFree86

Re: Fwd: Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

2003-07-29 Thread Aaron Siegel
] From: Karl Agee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group? Hi Greg and all: Laptop: Thinkpad iSeries 1300 Video: Silicon Motion LynxEM+ chip Screen: 800x600 hpa system: FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE Only the vga driver works, and not very well. Gives me

Re: New Laptop

2003-07-28 Thread Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg
Thanjee Neefam wrote: I am considering buying a new laptop (my current one is a Dell Inspiron PII-233 without a CD Drive (it broke :( )) I just simply want to know if there is a particluar range of laptops that work better with FreeBSD. ie: they use totally standard quality hardware, no panic

Re: New Laptop

2003-07-28 Thread Volker Kindermann
I am considering buying a new laptop (my current one is a Dell Inspiron PII-233 without a CD Drive (it broke :( )) I just simply want to know if there is a particluar range of laptops that work better with FreeBSD. ie: they use totally standard quality hardware, no panic on installs, also

Fwd: Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

2003-07-27 Thread Karl Agee
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:15:57 -0700 To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Karl Agee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group? Hi Greg and all: Laptop: Thinkpad iSeries 1300 Video: Silicon Motion LynxEM+ chip Screen: 800x600 hpa system: FreeBSD

Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

2003-07-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 19:15:57 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: At 11:10 AM 7/27/2003 +0930, you wrote: On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 21:47:23 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: I am having problems getting X set up properly on a laptop. Should I post the question here or on the mobile list? Start here

Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

2003-07-27 Thread Karl Agee
At 12:53 PM 7/28/2003 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 19:15:57 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: At 11:10 AM 7/27/2003 +0930, you wrote: On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 21:47:23 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: I am having problems getting X set up properly on a laptop. Should I post

more Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

2003-07-27 Thread Karl Agee
Ok, I just made a change to the monitor setting.and it froze up like before. Here is the log message: (II) Silicon Motion(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000 (II) Silicon Motion(0): Write-combining range (0x0, 0x1000) was already clear (II) Silicon Motion(0): Current Mode 0x00 (II)

Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

2003-07-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
AM 7/27/2003 +0930, you wrote: On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 21:47:23 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: Laptop: Thinkpad iSeries 1300 Video: Silicon Motion LynxEM+ chip Screen: 800x600 hpa system: FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE Only the vga driver works, and not very well. Gives me only a 640x480 display

Re: more Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

2003-07-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Computer output wrapped. On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 21:06:04 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: Ok, I just made a change to the monitor setting.and it froze up like before. Here is the log message: (II) Silicon Motion(0):

Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

2003-07-27 Thread Karl Agee
Karl Agee snipped: (II) Silicon Motion(0): U2C device I2C bus:SAA 7111A registered at address 0x48. (II) Silicon Motion(0): U2C device I2C bus:SAA 7111A removed. It looks as if you have trimmed too much. Look for lines starting with (WW) and (EE). (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not

New Laptop

2003-07-26 Thread Thanjee Neefam
I am considering buying a new laptop (my current one is a Dell Inspiron PII-233 without a CD Drive (it broke :( )) I just simply want to know if there is a particluar range of laptops that work better with FreeBSD. ie: they use totally standard quality hardware, no panic on installs, also

Re: New Laptop

2003-07-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Long/short syndrome. On Saturday, 26 July 2003 at 15:13:41 -0800, Thanjee Neefam wrote: I am considering buying a new laptop (my current one is a Dell Inspiron PII-233 without a CD Drive (it broke :( )) I just simply want

Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

2003-07-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 21:47:23 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: I am having problems getting X set up properly on a laptop. Should I post the question here or on the mobile list? Start here, but give some details. If this is a Dell Inspiron 5100, I'm working on it. Greg -- See complete headers

Laptop keyboard maps wrong keys during install

2003-07-25 Thread Kirk Strauser
I'm attempting to install 4.8 on an old IBM 340CSE laptop. I'm running into a roadblock, though: although the keyboard works fine all the way through the kernel configuration part at the beginning (moving around with arrow keys, deleting modules, saving, etc.), the keymap seems to get corrupted

laptop question for this or the mobile group?

2003-07-24 Thread Karl Agee
I am having problems getting X set up properly on a laptop. Should I post the question here or on the mobile list? --karl ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Dell Laptop Monitor

2003-07-12 Thread soheil soheil
Dear All I have an inspiron 2650 from dell. I install FreeBSD 5.0 on , and it works. But when i start KDE the main monitor screen start to scramble and like a signal on scope ;) but my external monitor works properlly. Does any one know what can i do to my setting to make it work. Thanx

Swap usage locks up my laptop.

2003-07-09 Thread Jon Fox
Whenever I start up gnome I'm getting panics and reboots, until I got wise and ran ``swapoff'' and started up gnome. No panics. How can I check my swap parition in FreeBSD. I've used fsck and badblocks on ext2 in Linux, but how do I check my FreeBSD swap? -- mycr0ft

Failed to install FreeBSD on Gericom Overdose laptop (Kernel Panic#12)

2003-07-06 Thread Pawel Kraszewski
smaller and faster than Windows, anyway) on my laptop? Sorry for rolling the problem overover, but it is frustrating me. Best regards, Pawel Kraszewski smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: laptop install problem - usb cd drive

2003-06-27 Thread David Banning
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 08:04:15PM -0400, William O'Higgins wrote: The Challenge: An old laptop, with no OS that can only boot from a floppy. I want to install FreeBSD. I have a USB CDROM, but I cannot make it bootable at the BIOS level. I have a network card (PCMCIA) but no knowledge

laptop install problem - usb cd drive

2003-06-26 Thread William O'Higgins
The Challenge: An old laptop, with no OS that can only boot from a floppy. I want to install FreeBSD. I have a USB CDROM, but I cannot make it bootable at the BIOS level. I have a network card (PCMCIA) but no knowledge of how to get drivers for it on a FreeBSD install floppy. I'm pretty sure

Using kevent to catch laptop disk I/O culprit?

2003-06-16 Thread George Hartzell
I'm working on keeping my laptop disk spun down and am using the process of elimination to figure out who's always spinning up the disk. So far, I've put /tmp on an mfs, and I just installed Robert Sexton's hw.ata.suspend patch from the freebsd-mobile archives. I'm slowly killing off

laptop hard drive spin-down APM stuff - controllable??

2003-06-14 Thread BSD baby
Anyone who's using FreeBSD with a laptop: I'm having problems with my hard drive spinning down (sleeping) every 30 seconds. Is that something that's controllable in FreeBSD? I don't see it in BIOS. Is it a kernel thing? This thing sleeps and wakes, sleeps and wakes about every 15 seconds

Problem on installing BSD 5.x on laptop ...

2003-06-12 Thread Damien Touraine
Hello, I have a 3CCFEM556BI pccard connected on my laptop. However, I don't manage to get the device working during the install of FreeBSD 5.0 and 5.1. Actually the pcmcia driver work fine as it recognized my APA 1480A cardbus. During the boot there is a message ep0: eeprom failed to come ready

Dead keys on Toshiba laptop - 4.8-STABLE - XFree 4.3

2003-06-09 Thread Florian Ponroy
Hello, I've recently installed FreeBSD on my laptop, fetched the kernel sources to upgrade from 4.8-RELEASE to 4.8-STABLE, and now i'm trying to make these dead-keys working under XFree :) Well, it doesn't work at all. 8 bits caracters are perfectly supported by the terminal (aterm), since i can

Re: Dead keys on Toshiba laptop - 4.8-STABLE - XFree 4.3

2003-06-09 Thread Florian Ponroy
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 04:57:47PM +, Florian Ponroy wrote: Hello, I've recently installed FreeBSD on my laptop, fetched the kernel sources to upgrade from 4.8-RELEASE to 4.8-STABLE, and now i'm trying to make these dead-keys working under XFree :) Well, it doesn't work at all. 8 bits

How to configure Wireless access with WEP on a laptop AND use DHCPin/etc/rc.conf

2003-06-04 Thread John Merryweather Cooper
I've discovered the wonderful world of wireless Internet access on my FreeBSD laptop (an IBM Thinkpad 380XD running 4.8-STABLE), but I have a problem. Configuring the interface to do both DHCP and initialize with all the WEP parameters seems to be mutually exclusive. I've worked around

Re: How to configure Wireless access with WEP on a laptop AND use DHCPin/etc/rc.conf

2003-06-04 Thread Christian Sauer
John Merryweather Cooper said: [- snip -] So, currently, my configuration line looks like: ifconfig_wi0=inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid some-ssid wepmode on wepkey some-128-bit-key put the ifconfig wi0 ssid some-ssid wepmode on wepkey some-128-bit-key command into

Installing FreeBSD on Laptop

2003-06-03 Thread Gunther, Dean (Dean)
I have a Midwest Micro Elite Soundbook laptop that I would like to install FreeBSD on. The box is a Pentium 75, with 40MB of RAM and a 2GB hard drive so it should be doable. I started out to try an load from an ftp site using the 3COM 3C589D PCMCIA card but was unable to figure out how to get

Re: Installing FreeBSD on Laptop

2003-06-03 Thread doug
the hardware question to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and/or [EMAIL PROTECTED] There may be a driver that will recognize your CDROM. On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Gunther, Dean (Dean) wrote: I have a Midwest Micro Elite Soundbook laptop that I would like to install FreeBSD on. The box is a Pentium 75, with 40MB

Re: Installing FreeBSD on Laptop

2003-06-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gunther, Dean (Dean) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a Midwest Micro Elite Soundbook laptop that I would like to install FreeBSD on. The box is a Pentium 75, with 40MB of RAM and a 2GB hard drive so it should be doable. I started out to try an load from an ftp site using the 3COM 3C589D

Re: Laptop, monitor battery without X.

2003-05-29 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# / 2003-05-26 10:57:50 +0300: From: Cristian Salan @organizer.ro ^^^ fix your From: address! -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message.see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html

laptop output

2003-04-04 Thread iulian
Hello! I have a laptop fujitsu-siemens, with ati rage mobility video card, and i have this kind of problem: in text mode i see only half of screen, i mean it's like a 50% zoom out. I don't know how to make to see full screen. Thank tou! --- Iulian Dumbrava ROMTELECOM. OM Network. IN National

Novice has psm0 problems on a laptop

2003-04-03 Thread dknapp
I have a Compaq Presario 1220 laptop (Cyrix 200Mhz - woot!), and I can't seem to get the touchpad to work. I've read the laptop/mobile computing info, searched the mailing list, and gone to a couple of linux laptop sites - and from what I gather, there is really nothing special about a touchpad

Novice has psm0 problems on a laptop - update

2003-04-03 Thread dknapp
I've done a boot -v - psm0 says: psm0: current command byte:0047 psm0: failed to reset the aux device I'm using a Synaptics PS/2 TouchPad Is there a patch to make this work? Is it possible to manually reset the aux device? I have a Compaq Presario 1220 laptop (Cyrix 200Mhz - woot!), and I

Re: Fw: FreeBSD 5 on a laptop

2003-04-02 Thread Lucas Reddinger
that there is a problem with the default kernel and the devices on the laptop (sound card I believe)... How can I go about installing FreeBSD??? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

FreeBSD 5 on a laptop

2003-04-02 Thread Scott Graham
I am trying to install FReeBSD 5 on an inspiron 2500. Everytime I try to install it hangs after loading the kernel. I have looked into it and it seems that there is a problem with the default kernel and the devices on the laptop (sound card I believe)... How can I go about installing FreeBSD

Re: Laptop with PCcard ethernet: how to set up?

2003-03-30 Thread Dan Pelleg
Paul Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a laptop with an Ethernet PCcard which comes up as ep0. I want to use DHCP on it. My rc.conf has: pccard_enable=YES pccard_ifconfig=YES ifconfig_ep0=DHCP The card comes up fine, but it doesn't get ifconfig'd. Do I need to add something

Re: Laptop with PCcard ethernet: how to set up?

2003-03-30 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 8:14 AM -0500 3/30/03, Dan Pelleg wrote: I have a laptop with an Ethernet PCcard which comes up as ep0. I want to use DHCP on it. My rc.conf has: pccard_enable=YES pccard_ifconfig=YES ifconfig_ep0=DHCP The card comes up fine, but it doesn't get ifconfig'd. Do I need to add something

Laptop with PCcard ethernet: how to set up?

2003-03-29 Thread Paul Hoffman
I have a laptop with an Ethernet PCcard which comes up as ep0. I want to use DHCP on it. My rc.conf has: pccard_enable=YES pccard_ifconfig=YES ifconfig_ep0=DHCP The card comes up fine, but it doesn't get ifconfig'd. Do I need to add something else to rc.conf

vidcontrol(1) FreeBSD 5.0 on Laptop

2003-03-17 Thread Shane Kinney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey everyone, I just encountered a very strange problem with my notebook thats running 5.0-RELEASE and XFree86. Normally the regular color of the plain VT is a black background with a white forground. I have been running XFree86 on the laptop

Problems with FreeBSD and Laptop

2003-03-15 Thread Charlie Clark
the laptop to freeze and I haven't found anything better than switching off the power in order to regain control :-/ I have tried all various setup routines including trying to use VESA. I know that VESA drivers work as the machine boots fine with VESA drivers for BeOS. FreeBSD 4.7. I can install

My Laptop (Sotec look-a-like) Experience.

2003-03-10 Thread William E Reid
]:/usr/src/sys/compile/LAPTOP Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1000MHz (733.36-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x6b1 Stepping = 1 Features=0x383f9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE

Re: Suggested Laptop system

2003-03-05 Thread John Bleichert
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Tak Pui LOU wrote: Subject: Suggested Laptop system Hi All, Could anyone suggest a laptop model which has all the device support by FBSD? I don't want something too old but I want to have sound card, network card, etc. working under FreeBSD. Thanks, --- Lou

[LAPTOP]: Use of external keyboard with dockable station issue

2003-03-04 Thread Sylvain Lharidon
Hello, I'm using a Compaq Armada E500 laptop and, after some normal newbies problems, I I succeed in installating the FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE. These are my first steps into freebsd... As I have a dockable station, I've tried to plug my laptop into the dock in order to use it with externals monitor

Compaq laptop CDROM troubles

2003-02-26 Thread Dan Langille
I am trying to mount the CD on on Compaq Presario 1620 running 4.6- STABLE (1 Aug 2002). FWIW, I do not know if this CD drive is in operating condition and have never used the CD drive. dmesg shows this: acd0: CDROM TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1602B at ata1-master PIO4 Attempts to mount give this

laptop firewall NICs

2003-02-24 Thread Shane Hickey
Howdy all, I'm attempting to use a Toshiba TECRA 8000 running 5.0-release as the firewall for my home network. It's running right now, but I'm seeing some sketchy network behavior and I think it's one of the NICs. Basically, when I'm doing something fairly network-intensive (like large

5.0-RELEASE kernel boot problem on acer travelmate 210TEV (laptop)

2003-02-21 Thread Michael
I've been using 4.X for some time with no problems(that I can remember =) So i'm booting the install 5-RELEASE mini cd : Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel] in 8 seconds... Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed

laptop power managment

2003-02-21 Thread Brian Henning
Hello- i have a laptop that i run bsd4.7 on that i like to leave up for long periods of time. What i would like to do is put the monitor flap down. when i do that the power management kicks in and starts turning things off for example my (PCMCIA nic). i don't want it to do that anymore

Re: laptop power managment

2003-02-21 Thread Marcel Stangenberger
Hello- i have a laptop that i run bsd4.7 on that i like to leave up for long periods of time. What i would like to do is put the monitor flap down. when i do that the power management kicks in and starts turning things off for example my (PCMCIA nic). i don't want it to do that anymore

Re: 5.0-RELEASE kernel boot problem on acer travelmate 210TEV (laptop)

2003-02-21 Thread taxman
On Friday 21 February 2003 02:50 pm, Michael wrote: (snipped) I've been using 4.X for some time with no problems(that I can remember =) So i'm booting the install 5-RELEASE mini cd : Ok this is getting out of hand. 5.0 is a testing release. See:

Re: 5.0-RELEASE kernel boot problem on acer travelmate 210TEV(laptop)

2003-02-21 Thread Michael
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 18:46:09 +0100 taxman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 21 February 2003 02:50 pm, Michael wrote: (snipped) I've been using 4.X for some time with no problems(that I can remember =) So i'm booting the install 5-RELEASE mini cd : Ok this is getting out of hand.

Re: 5.0-RELEASE kernel boot problem on acer travelmate 210TEV (laptop)

2003-02-21 Thread taxman
On Saturday 22 February 2003 03:24 am, Michael wrote: On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 18:46:09 +0100 taxman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 21 February 2003 02:50 pm, Michael wrote: (snipped) I've been using 4.X for some time with no problems(that I can remember =) So i'm booting the

FreeBSD laptop. $799. looks good

2003-02-20 Thread BSD baby
in case anyone didn't hear from Slashdot already, Lindows the linux company is selling a nice small laptop for $799. And if it'll run Linux I'll bet it'll run FreeBSD: http://info.lindows.com/mobilepc/mobilepc.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

5.0 or 4.7 for a new laptop

2003-02-10 Thread stan
I'm getting a new laptop, probably a Compaq EVO N410c. Which would I be better of installing 5.0 or 4.7? -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe

Re: 5.0 or 4.7 for a new laptop

2003-02-10 Thread Steve Tremblett
+ stan wrote: | I'm getting a new laptop, probably a Compaq EVO N410c. | | Which would I be better of installing 5.0 or 4.7? Stick to 4.7 - 5.0 is not quite ready for primetime, but feel free to try it, as long as you are aware that it may not be perfectly stable. -- Steve Tremblett

Re: 5.0 or 4.7 for a new laptop

2003-02-10 Thread stan
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:36:41PM -0500, Steve Tremblett wrote: + stan wrote: | I'm getting a new laptop, probably a Compaq EVO N410c. | | Which would I be better of installing 5.0 or 4.7? Stick to 4.7 - 5.0 is not quite ready for primetime, but feel free to try it, as long as you

Re: Laptop sugestions?

2003-02-08 Thread Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg
Tuc wrote: Try dell. Inspiron 8200 seems great. Of course you must be careful with the hardware, but for me there is another important feature that I take care every time I buy a laptop: keyboard. Today, there is a annoying tendency to put unuseful keyboards on laptops. Inspirons 8200 are great

Re: Laptop sugestions?

2003-02-07 Thread David Rio
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:19:36PM -0500, stan wrote: Looks like I might be getting to order a new laptop at work to replace the 4 year old HP that I have. this machine will be a FreeBSD machine. great. What machines should I be looking at? Assume that I have about $2k to spend. Try dell

Re: Laptop sugestions?

2003-02-07 Thread stan
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:02:25AM +0100, David Rio wrote: On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:19:36PM -0500, stan wrote: Looks like I might be getting to order a new laptop at work to replace the 4 year old HP that I have. this machine will be a FreeBSD machine. great. What machines should

Re: Laptop sugestions?

2003-02-07 Thread jdunham
important feature that I take care every time I buy a laptop: keyboard. Today, there is a annoying tendency to put unuseful keyboards on laptops. Inspirons 8200 are great, but they weigh so much. If you are going to use it at your work maybe you don't mind that the laptop weigh four-five kg

Re: Laptop sugestions?

2003-02-07 Thread Tuc
Try dell. Inspiron 8200 seems great. Of course you must be careful with the hardware, but for me there is another important feature that I take care every time I buy a laptop: keyboard. Today, there is a annoying tendency to put unuseful keyboards on laptops. Inspirons 8200 are great

Re: laptop suspend when close cover?

2003-02-07 Thread David Loszewski
no one has any ideas?? Dave On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 22:56, David Loszewski wrote: I loaded on FreeBSD 5.0 onto my laptop and now when I close the lid on the laptop my laptop goes into what I think is a suspend mode where my network card stops recieving or sending packets and it's like my laptop

Re: Laptop sugestions?

2003-02-07 Thread Mike Dean
with apologies that I'm sending this to the Dell thread, but I seem to have lost the initial message * David Rio [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-07-02 10:02]: On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:19:36PM -0500, stan wrote: What machines should I be looking at? Assume that I have about $2k to spend. I've got

Laptop sugestions?

2003-02-06 Thread stan
Looks like I might be getting to order a new laptop at work to replace the 4 year old HP that I have. this machine will be a FreeBSD machine. What machines should I be looking at? Assume that I have about $2k to spend. -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve

laptop suspend when close cover?

2003-02-06 Thread David Loszewski
I loaded on FreeBSD 5.0 onto my laptop and now when I close the lid on the laptop my laptop goes into what I think is a suspend mode where my network card stops recieving or sending packets and it's like my laptop turns off and when you open the lid back up it doesn't turn back on correctly

Xf86config res too small on laptop

2003-01-22 Thread Adam M Ryan
I am trying to use the xf86config graphics utility on my Dell Cpi laptop, but the resolution is very small. Its pry like 340x something. I can't see all of the menus. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: Xf86config res too small on laptop

2003-01-22 Thread Pierrick Brossin
or something else so I can configure X? Hi Adam! I had to actually modify my XF86config file myself to get the laptop have a greater resolution. I'm using 1024x768 on a Sony VAIO laptop! As I'm really short on time now, I have to go to work relllyy fast but I'll send you my config file

Configuring mouse on laptop

2002-11-04 Thread Chad McCullough
Hi everyone, I'm very new to FreeBSD (I've been using it for about a week now). I've been a Linux user for about 3 years but I'm finding that BSD is definitely different in many ways. I have an IBM Thinkpad 570 (PII-366MHz) laptop that I've installed FreeBSD 4.7 on. The installation went okay

Re: Configuring mouse on laptop

2002-11-04 Thread Pierrick Brossin
the following: -- Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol MouseSystems Option Device /dev/sysmouse Option ButtonNumber 4 EndSection -- I have a sony vaio laptop with one of these stupid touchpad :) Cya -- Pierrick

Re: Configuring mouse on laptop

2002-11-04 Thread Volker Kindermann
I have an IBM Thinkpad 570 (PII-366MHz) laptop that I've installed FreeBSD 4.7 on. The installation went okay but I'm having a problem getting the mouse working. When I enter Windowmaker, my mouse jumps all over the screen. This works for me (Thinkpad X21, 4.7 stable): Section InputDevice

USB Mouse and laptop

2002-10-29 Thread uwi mAn
If I start my system (4.7) with the USB Mouse plugged in it works. If I plug it after or if I remove it and then plug it again it wont work. I discovered the sleep laptop function APM ! I thought it would never work on my laptop ! So I'm also loosing the mouse when the laptop goes sleeping Any

problem using pcmcia modem on laptop

2002-10-17 Thread David Loszewski
I'm having a problem using my pcmcia modem that I have on my Xircon card. When I try to use kppp with KDE it freezes when I try to query the modem. I couldn't find any references to pcmcia modems in the handbook, could someone point me in the right direction? Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: problem using pcmcia modem on laptop

2002-10-17 Thread John Bleichert
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, David Loszewski wrote: Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 21:50:12 -0500 From: David Loszewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: problem using pcmcia modem on laptop I'm having a problem using my pcmcia modem that I have on my Xircon card. When I try to use kppp

Re: Failed install of 4.7 on laptop...

2002-10-15 Thread Mike Berning
Bob Johnson said: Mike Berning appears to have written: When I attempt to install FreeBSD 4.7, or any 4.x for that matter, I recieve this error during the initial boot. pci0: unknown card (vendor = 0x8086, dev = 0x2445) at 31.5 irq 11 pci0: unknown card (vendor = 0x8086, dev = 0x2445) at

Failed install of 4.7 on laptop...

2002-10-14 Thread Mike Berning
in advance, mike ps laptop is toshiba satellite 1905-S301 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Failed install of 4.7 on laptop...

2002-10-14 Thread John Bleichert
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Mike Berning wrote: Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:35:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Berning [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Failed install of 4.7 on laptop... When I attempt to install FreeBSD 4.7, or any 4.x for that matter, I recieve this error during

Re: Failed install of 4.7 on laptop...

2002-10-14 Thread Mike Berning
John Bleichert said: Is this blocking the install or just an error you see during the install? On my Thinkpad there is a win32 utility available from IBM to set/disable all the onboard devices. Luckily there's also a Linux utility ps2). Does Toshiba provide any such utility? Search the

Re: Failed install of 4.7 on laptop...

2002-10-14 Thread Bob Johnson
this problem, thanks in advance, mike Are you getting any other error messages or clues? Is the error message above the last thing that appears on the screen? If not, what is? - Bob ps laptop is toshiba satellite 1905-S301 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

RE: Failed install of 4.7 on laptop...

2002-10-14 Thread Chris Kulish
10:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Failed install of 4.7 on laptop... On Monday 14 October 2002 02:35 pm, Mike Berning appears to have written: When I attempt to install FreeBSD 4.7, or any 4.x for that matter, I recieve this error during the initial boot. pci0

RE: Laptop sound

2002-10-10 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Ok Sony left this out of my BIOS. What now? Have you tried to put options PNPBIOS in your kernel config file and then make a new kernel? This works on SOME laptops. -- Torfinn Ingolfsen Norway To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of

Re: Laptop sound

2002-10-09 Thread Sue Blake
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 11:14:48PM -0700, Pookie wrote: I have a Sony Vaio GRX-570 running FreeBSD 4.6. Im attempting to get my sound working, but im receiving an error: Dmesg: Pcm0: Intel 82801CA (IHC3)... irq 9 at device 31.5 on pci0 After I try playing something in xmms I get:

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