Re: BSD 4.6, X, and Savage IX w/MV woes

On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 12:34:08PM -0600, Mike Avery wrote:
> I'm trying to get my Toshiba 2755 laptop running with 
> FreeBSD 4.6.  Sadly, I bought this machine before I 
> was thinking about running FreeBSD on a laptop.  

That's ok, it will probably work just fine.
 
> In any case, I can't find any drivers that get the 
> Savage IX w/MV working with X.  I've tried all the 
> reasonable sounding drivers that were included, and so 
> far all I get is a message that tells me something like, 
> "it seems the x-setup failed, would you like to try 
> again".

That sounds like the Savage chip that is in my Toshiba 2805 and which
has been working perfectly ever since XFree86 4.0.1.  Make sure you 
installed XFree86 4.x and *not* XFree86 3.x.  3.x doesn't work with 
the Savage IX/MV.  BTW, this is an XFree86 issue you are having,
it's not FreeBSD's fault. :-)  XFree68 will work for you once we get 
the magic incantations right.  Don't dispare.

From my /var/log/XFree86.0.log (Check your log file.  You may find the cause 
of your problems in there.)
(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) S3 Savage/IX-MV rev 17, Mem @ 0xf0000000/27, BIOS @ 0x000c0000/16

> A check with (sorry) RedHat 7.3 on the machine shows 
> it thinks the video card is a S3 86C270-294 IX-MV (rev 
> 11), in case that helps.  (Red Hat chokes on the Cisco 
> PCM340 Card in the laptop.  There is no joy in mudville.  
> While I'd rather have FreeBSD working on the machine, 
> my main goal is to get Microsoft OFF the machine.)

I haven't tried a Cisco card yet.  But I've seen reports of success.
I wiped Windows off this machine the day after I bought it.
 
> I'd appreciate any pointers, tips, or answers you can 
> share.  I've been rt'ing the fm, and cursing google until 
> my eyes cross.... so far, no joy.  

I don't know how different the 2755 is from the 2805, but you might at 
least want to try snarfing my XFree86 config file from:

http://www.LambertFam.org/~lambert/laptop/

Look at some of the other stuff, it may apply to your Toshiba as well.

Good luck!

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Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
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