On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Chris H chris#@1command.com wrote:
Well, the box I'm writing this message from is running a
G98 [GeForce 8400 GS] + 3Gb videoram, while not the latest and greatest, it
isn't really legacy either. I was /sure/ it'd be a snap to setup, but
while functional, it
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Chris H chris#@1command.com wrote:
On Wed, February 16, 2011 1:34 am, Tom Evans wrote:
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Chris H chris#@1command.com wrote:
Well, the box I'm writing this message from is running a
G98 [GeForce 8400 GS] + 3Gb videoram, while
On 02/14/11 19:21, Ted Faber wrote:
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:52:43PM -0800, Chris H wrote:
I noticed a potential issue in the output of your attached Xorg.conf.
Can you tell me what looked fishy? I'm happy to poke it it.
Bottom line (for me anyway) has been that if I disable hald(8), I
On Mon, February 14, 2011 2:35 pm, Warren Block wrote:
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Chris H wrote:
I'm /not/ on a GENERIC kernel, but here are some relevant pieces from
my setup that might help; rc.conf(5) hald_enable=NO dbus_enable=YES
Half a dozen machines here (roughly, it varies) say that hal
On 02/15/11 04:23, Chris H wrote:
On Mon, February 14, 2011 2:35 pm, Warren Block wrote:
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Chris H wrote:
I'm /not/ on a GENERIC kernel, but here are some relevant pieces from
my setup that might help; rc.conf(5) hald_enable=NO dbus_enable=YES
Half a dozen machines here
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Chris H wrote:
On Mon, February 14, 2011 2:35 pm, Warren Block wrote:
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Chris H wrote:
OH, one other thing that comes to mind;
Did you let Xorg(1) create your xorg.conf(8) file? and if so (you /should/
have), what was the output? Again, if so, is that
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Boris Kochergin wrote:
Ahoy. Just thought I'd add what I've observed about the problem. Back when I
first encountered it on a T42, in the 7.x or 8.x days, it would manifest
itself reliably on X shutdown, but only when X was shut down for the second
time since the machine
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:40:01PM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Ted Faber wrote:
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 08:58:31PM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
Updated the T42 tonight, which has the same video. -STABLE as of today,
all ports updated as of today, and it seems fine. At
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 09:17:41AM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Boris Kochergin wrote:
Ahoy. Just thought I'd add what I've observed about the problem. Back when
I
first encountered it on a T42, in the 7.x or 8.x days, it would manifest
itself reliably on X
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Ted Faber wrote:
FWIW, I'm using xf86-video-ati-6.13.2 as well. I also have a slow
resume problem, so ACPI problems are a possibility. There's an ACPI
error in the boot log of my initial message.
Do you have the lockup-on-shutdown problem if there have been no
On 02/15/11 12:19, Ted Faber wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 09:17:41AM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Boris Kochergin wrote:
Ahoy. Just thought I'd add what I've observed about the problem. Back when I
first encountered it on a T42, in the 7.x or 8.x days, it would manifest
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 08:57:59AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote:
On 02/14/11 19:21, Ted Faber wrote:
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:52:43PM -0800, Chris H wrote:
Bottom line (for me anyway) has been that if I disable hald(8), I have
nearly no (video related) issues. This is both on x86 amd64 systems.
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:54:54AM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Ted Faber wrote:
FWIW, I'm using xf86-video-ati-6.13.2 as well. I also have a slow
resume problem, so ACPI problems are a possibility. There's an ACPI
error in the boot log of my initial message.
Do
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Warren Block wrote:
There are people who have difficulty with hal, and a much larger number who
dislike it. I'd contend that problems with hal are not very widespread, or
there would be a call for the Handbook X11 configuration section to change.
Just to add something I
On Tue, February 15, 2011 12:21 pm, Warren Block wrote:
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Warren Block wrote:
There are people who have difficulty with hal, and a much larger number who
dislike it. I'd contend that problems with hal are not very widespread, or
there would be a call for the Handbook X11
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Chris H wrote:
On Tue, February 15, 2011 12:21 pm, Warren Block wrote:
So many people were using AEI that I decided to write an article about
it: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html
Fun reading, thanks for sharing. :)
Thanks!
purely a question of
On Tue, February 15, 2011 4:05 pm, Warren Block wrote:
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Chris H wrote:
On Tue, February 15, 2011 12:21 pm, Warren Block wrote:
So many people were using AEI that I decided to write an article about
it: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html
Fun reading,
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 03:20:54PM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Ted Faber wrote:
For the last couple weeks (maybe more) I've been having an intermittent
problem on my Thinkpad T42 where exiting X causes my screen to lock up
and the system seems to stop doing anything.
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:52:43PM -0800, Chris H wrote:
I noticed a potential issue in the output of your attached Xorg.conf.
Can you tell me what looked fishy? I'm happy to poke it it.
Bottom line (for me anyway) has been that if I disable hald(8), I have nearly
no (video related) issues.
On Mon, February 14, 2011 10:21 am, Ted Faber wrote:
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:52:43PM -0800, Chris H wrote:
I noticed a potential issue in the output of your attached Xorg.conf.
Can you tell me what looked fishy? I'm happy to poke it it.
Bottom line (for me anyway) has been that if I
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Chris H wrote:
I'm /not/ on a GENERIC kernel, but here are some relevant pieces from
my setup that might help;
rc.conf(5)
hald_enable=NO
dbus_enable=YES
Half a dozen machines here (roughly, it varies) say that hal is fine.
One of those machines is a T42, but needs
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Ted Faber wrote:
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 03:20:54PM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
My T42 is months out of date and needs updating, but I haven't seen that
issue before. Have you made any changes to xorg-related stuff lately?
There are some things in your xorg.conf Device
Updated the T42 tonight, which has the same video. -STABLE as of today,
all ports updated as of today, and it seems fine. At least no lock up
on restarting X or shutting down. Your xorg.conf had some interesting
things, including XAA acceleration, which I didn't notice before.
Here's the
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 08:58:31PM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
Updated the T42 tonight, which has the same video. -STABLE as of today,
all ports updated as of today, and it seems fine. At least no lock up
on restarting X or shutting down. Your xorg.conf had some interesting
things,
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Ted Faber wrote:
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 08:58:31PM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
Updated the T42 tonight, which has the same video. -STABLE as of today,
all ports updated as of today, and it seems fine. At least no lock up
on restarting X or shutting down. Your xorg.conf
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Ted Faber wrote:
For the last couple weeks (maybe more) I've been having an intermittent
problem on my Thinkpad T42 where exiting X causes my screen to lock up
and the system seems to stop doing anything. Lately it's happening
about every 3rd time.
My T42 is months out
On Fri, February 11, 2011 11:12 am, Ted Faber wrote:
For the last couple weeks (maybe more) I've been having an intermittent
problem on my Thinkpad T42 where exiting X causes my screen to lock up and the
system seems to stop doing anything. Lately it's happening about every 3rd
time.
The
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