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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!news-relay.us.dell.com!obiwan!bob From: bob@luke.pmr.com (Bob Willcox) Subject: Re: XFree86 on Dell Latitude XPi Notebook?? Sender: root@obiwan.pmr.com (OBIWAN Superuser) Organization: Bob's Place, Austin TX Message-ID: <DrK9z5.37q@obiwan.pmr.com> References: <DrCK6A.MJE@obiwan.pmr.com> <DrDxqJ.236@gaston.m.ISAR.de> <4nh3r0$kpp@shellx.best.com> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: luke.pmr.com Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 17:59:29 GMT Lines: 32 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.windows.x.i386unix:20036 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:19568 In article <4nh3r0$kpp@shellx.best.com>, Darren Croke <djc@shellx.best.com> wrote: >I've just installed FreeBSD on my Dell Latitude XPi-P75D laptop and >it hangs during boot once it's done probing all the i/o devices. >Did you guys have to do anything special other than turning off power >management to get it running on your 120's ? > I haven't had a hang after boot problem. I did have a hang during boot problem. Mine would hang while probing for the PS/2 mouse. A quick fix was to disable the psm.c device driver. I am currently running an annotated version of psm.c that has some printf's in the psmprobe function that does *not* hang! Take the printf's out and it will hang for a couple of minutes then proceed. I just haven't had the time to get back to working on it since I seem to have an effective work around for the time being. Note that the GENERIC kernel doesn't have the psm.c device driver included, so unless you have rebuilt your kernel to include it your problem shouldn't be this. There may be some other differences (besides processor speed) between the 75MHz and 120MHz versions. The 120 was released after the 75 and 90. BTW, I haven't done anything with my power management settings. They are still at their defaults. Also, I have successfully run (sans the PS/2 mouse hang) 2.1R and 2.2-current (as of 05/15/96, which is what I'm currently running). -- Bob Willcox bob@luke.pmr.com Austin, TX