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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!news2.digex.net!black-cat.igloo.org!mattm From: mattm@black-cat.igloo.org (Matt Mosley) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Problems w/FreeBSD on Thinkpad 560 Date: 8 Apr 1997 20:48:17 GMT Organization: DIGEX Lines: 34 Message-ID: <5ieauh$i5v@news4.digex.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: black-cat.igloo.org Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38748 Hi. I'm having some really irritating problems with FreeBSD 2.2.1 on an IBM Thinkpad 560. Hopefully someone out there has experience with FreeBSD on one of these things and can help. The box: it's a Thinkpad 560, type 2640-50A. It has the smaller (11.3", I think) screen, a TGUI video adapter with 1MB of RAM, 24MB of memory onboard, 2.2GB disk, etc. First of all, I can't for the life of me make XFree86 work properly with the display. I've tried all the setup utils, I've tried entering "common" clocks by hand, etc. No dice. It refuses to work in 800x600 mode, only in 640x480 with 256 colors, which is virtually useless. Microsoft Windows came installed on the damn thing and it worked just fine in 800x600 mode, and I know the box supports 16 bit graphics as well. Does anyone have any idea of what the XF86Config should look like? Secondly, I can't make the vt0 console work right. It screws up the keyboard badly after using anything that sends any sort of graphical characters (like Emacs). The right half of the keyboard suddenly starts sending seemingly random characters when you hit the keys. The sc0 seems to work fine, however. Finally, whenever I start up X on it and exit it, the screen gets totally screwed up; nothing I've tried restores it. All the characters become unreadable, on all vty's. Any help with any of these problems would be greatly appreciated. Please respond via email if you would. Thanks! -Matt