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From: Gunther Schadow <gunther@gusw.dialup.fu-berlin.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: FreeBSD/XFree86 on Notebook
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 12:40:01 +0100
Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
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Hi Nate,

> It's still mostly hit and miss for displays.  Almost any 640x480 display
> will work, but for laptops with higher resolutions it's really guesswork
> unless you know someone with it working already.  (It works in 800x600
> on all the NEC Versas, but I haven't been able to get it to work on the
> ThinkPads).

O.K. I hit and didnt miss ... at least to some extent:

I just set up a configuration for an "Artist" (OEM?) notebook with TFT
800x600, Chips & Tech. 65548 1MB SVGA, i586/100 32MB. It looks just
fine, but I have a very strange problem: When the system load becomes
moderate to high, and display action is moderate, someone suddenly kills
the server (SIGKILL) and then it hangs locking up the terminal. I guess
its the server process itself that raises the KILL signal, and I hope to
find the problem with the debugger rather quickly.

[about Touchpad and PS/2 mice ]
> They are similar, and XFree86 supposedly has support for them directly.

runs as a PS/2 mouse w/o any problems.

> >* APM problems fixed for FreeBSD now?
> Not all of them, but I've fixed some of the bigger ones.

As for my APM version you did well! Thanks!

Do you have any idea why the X server gets killed?
thanks again,
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Gunther Schadow-----------Windsteiner Weg 54a, Berlin 14165, FR. Germany
Dept. of Anaesthesia, Benjamin Franklin Univerity Hospital, Berlin.
gusw@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de         http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~gusw
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