On 02/05/2016 03:41 AM, Dahlberg, David wrote:
Am Donnerstag, den 04.02.2016, 16:40 -0500 schrieb Samir Parikh:
If you investigate more closely, you will probably find out, that
the
system still works, just the graphics is fscked up: Try logging in
via
ssh, or shutting down the system by blindly typing into ttyC0.
I know this is a stupid question but should I try logging into ttyC0
via
CRTL-ALT-F1 while FVWM/X.org is still running or when I am in the
original shell at login?
When xenocara hangs, you may press e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F2 and enter blindly:
| <LOGIN>
| <PASSWORD>
| shutdown -p now
In the other posting you were saying that pressing the power button
shortly wouldn't work. At least on my 2015 Lenovo you need to press the
power button for aprox. 2 seconds to send an ACPI powerdown.
Any ideas or suggestions?
1) Use modesetting(4) in xorg.conf and wait for 5.9
Does not work on 5.8 yet -> See Jonathan Grey's comment. He is one of
the devs, who ported the Broadwell support.
So basically you have two options:
If you want to stay on -stable:
You have to work around the but. E.g. by starting the X server with
startx and killing it from the console instead of regularly logging out.
If you use XDM put the following into /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config:
| DisplayManager.*.resetSignal: 9
This still destroys the graphics on your consoles, but at least you get
a shiny new X server login after exiting.
In that situation, most graphical Desktop environments won't work, but
the more simplistic ones do. The following setup worked okay'ish for me:
xfce4, with xfce4-power-manager, no xscreensaver installed
(xfce4-power-manager + xscreensaver triggers the bug)
3) Update to a recent snapshot.
Ok. Thank you for the ideas. Perhaps I'll look into a recent
snapshot
if not other methods work
The `problem' with a snapshot is that from then on you will be following
current and keep on updating. It was bad luck for you to buy the wrong
machine at the wrong time. I did the same though, knowing quite well
that a lot of the OpenBSD developers use the same Laptop as me and thus
will feel the same pain ;-)
Regarding Broadwell Graphics support:
Matthew Dillon and wrote it first for DragonflyBSD. The OpenBSD people
could not directly import it, as the graphics stacks seem to differ
significantly between Open and Dragonfly.
After Matt Dillon also ported his Broadwell support to Linux, jsg@ and
kettenis@ started to implement it in OpenBSD. This was shortly after the
5.8 release.
Be assured that the Ubuntus and RedHats have not been faster either and
AFAIK FreeBSD/PC-BSD is still working on Haswell support ;-)
maybe OpenBSD is not the right OS for my skills and laptop. I hope
that
is not the case though!)
Don't be afraid. Your problem is that you have bought the latest and
greatest of models and open source support takes usually a few month.
If you install 5.9 (to be released 1st of May), it will probably work
fine for you. And about the simplicity: If it works, it is IMHO easier
to master than most of the Linux distros that I know of. And
definitively better documented :-)
Cheers,
David
David, Jonathan --
Thanks for your help and tips. As you say, perhaps I've got the right
laptop and the wrong time. Unfortunately, I don't have the technical
skills to keep up with all of the updates with a snapshot or -RELEASE at
this point. I was able to successfully run Fedora 23 and Ubuntu MATE
15.10 with no problems, including wireless and the screen brightness
keys so I think I'll stay with that for now and look at putting on
OpenBSD or FreeBSD on this older T61. I promise I'll be back with more
questions as I really would like to make BSD work for me!
Samir
