Re: Toshiba Portégé 4000 laptop

2005-04-23 Thread Laurent Debacker
With FreeSBIE 1.1 (based on FreeBSD 5.3), it says: acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retrying (2 retries left) acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG timed out Then it stop/freezes. If I press the power button, it says acpi: suspend request ignored (not ready yet). Thanks. On 4/23/05, Laurent Debacker [EMAIL

RE: keyboard problem on laptop.

2005-03-10 Thread Dennis Crowley
a bad assumption. Thanks for the help, and again, sorry for the red herring. Dennis. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nathan Kinkade Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 7:22 AM To: Dennis Crowley Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: keyboard

Re: keyboard problem on laptop.

2005-03-09 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:03:07PM -0800, Dennis Crowley wrote: Hi yall. I've installed FreeBSD on my old Dell Insperion 7500, which I would like to use as a router (low power) and network analysis tool. The problem is that the keyboard driver does not seem to be recognizing the shift

Re: keyboard problem on laptop.

2005-03-08 Thread Jason Henson
On 03/08/05 20:03:07, Dennis Crowley wrote: Hi yall. I've installed FreeBSD on my old Dell Insperion 7500, which I would like to use as a router (low power) and network analysis tool. The problem is that the keyboard driver does not seem to be recognizing the shift key. Does this sound wierd

Re: Help on Compaq Laptop Presario 3000 AMD Athlon 64

2005-01-04 Thread Kangaroo
Hello, I also try freebsd-5.21 i386 still have the same problem. I boot openBSD-i386 , the system freezed. Boot openBSD-AMD64 OK but openBSD does not support nVIDIA GeFORCE.xx so No graphic display at all .. It seems HP-compag presario R3240CA model ( athlon 64 AMD ) is not a good disigned ... I

Re: Help on Compaq Laptop Presario 3000 AMD Athlon 64 -Nvida-gforce3 chipset

2005-01-03 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Kangaroo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need help on instaling freebsd 5.3 AMD64 on my lap top. When I boot from cd rom, The system boot up to menu screen show 1...7 where 2 eg. boot with disable ACPI... My system automatically shutdown when I press any key from 1 or 7 or just press enter. I

Re: Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed

2004-12-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Friday, December 24, 2004 7:56 PM -0600 Scott Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did. The only Dell card listed is the Dell TrueMobile 1150, which I think is a fairly old card that Dell no longer sells. Dell's recent catalogues list only the Intel PRO Wireless

Re: Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed

2004-12-27 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, December 24, 2004 7:56 PM -0600 Scott Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did. The only Dell card listed is the Dell TrueMobile 1150, which I think is a fairly old card that Dell no longer sells. Dell's recent catalogues list only the Intel PRO Wireless 2100 and 2200, the Dell

Re: Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed

2004-12-24 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, December 24, 2004 1:54 PM -0600 Scott Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a driver that supports the Dell Wireless WLAN 1450 Dual- Band card for laptops. If anyone can point me in the right direction, please let me know. It's probably the wi driver, which should

Re: Dell WLAN 1450 laptop wireless card driver needed

2004-12-24 Thread Scott Bennett
Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Fri Dec 24 16:25:40 2004: --On Friday, December 24, 2004 1:54 PM -0600 Scott Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a driver that supports the Dell Wireless WLAN 1450 Dual- Band card for laptops. If anyone can point me in the right

Re: 3D on old laptop

2004-10-14 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 00:56:18 +0200 h [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a fujitsu siemens lifebook C, celeron 400mhz running freebsd 4.10. its graphics card is a trident Cyber9525 with 2.5mb onboard :-) some data sheet says it has 3D acceleration, but how do i activate it ? do i follow the

Re: Best older model laptop for FreeBSD 5.x

2004-06-23 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:44:00PM -0700, 3BSD wrote: Hi, I'm thinking about buying an older model laptop to put FreeBSD 5.x on. I had an IBM Thinkpad T21 and FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE ran fine, but the XFree86 drivers were less than stable, and so was the ACPI support, sound support was also very

Re: More info [was Re: Sony PCG-GRX570 laptop, panic on boot w/ 5.1R...]

2003-11-23 Thread Remington
George Hartzell wrote: George Hartzell writes: I've been trying to install something 5-ish on a Sony PCG-GRX570 laptop. I started off trying to boot off of the 5.1 release CD, normally, w/out acpi, and safe. Every option panic-ed, with essentially the same message (see below), although

Re: More info [was Re: Sony PCG-GRX570 laptop, panic on boot w/ 5.1R...]

2003-11-23 Thread George Hartzell
Remington writes: George Hartzell wrote: George Hartzell writes: I've been trying to install something 5-ish on a Sony PCG-GRX570 laptop. I started off trying to boot off of the 5.1 release CD, normally, w/out acpi, and safe. Every option panic-ed, with

Re: Problem with new laptop touch pad

2003-10-31 Thread Ray Seals
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 23:25, Frank Knobbe wrote: My Dell Inspiron 8100 has a Synaptics Touchpad. There was nothing special that needed to be done. It is found like any other PS/2 mouse as psm0. Isn't that found during startup on your box? Check your messages log file or dmesg | grep psm0. It

Re: Problem with new laptop touch pad

2003-10-30 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 16:06, Ray Seals wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 14:28, Ray Seals wrote: Just purchased and eMachine M3512. I cannot get the touch pad to work. Anyone else know if it's supported or any ideas on getting this running. I have tried it with both 4.8 and 5.1. I would

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

Re: Installing FreeBSD on Laptop

2003-06-03 Thread doug
I assume you tried to configure the kernel before running the install program. Assuming the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html or the hardware notes: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.8R/hardware-i386.html Do not cover your hardware, I would ask

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: Configuring mouse on laptop

2002-11-04 Thread Pierrick Brossin
Chad McCullough wrote: When I enter Windowmaker, my mouse jumps all over the screen. I've even tried an external PS/2 mouse with the same results. Could you please paste the mouse section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file please? It should be easy to solve. My config file looks like the

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

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