Re: XFree86 & ACPI don't like each other?

Dave Tweten <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] said:
>I've recently joined the freebsd-mobile world with 5.2.1 on an IBM
>ThinkPad T22.

I use a T23, and my FreeBSD is 4.x, recent STABLE.

>.. X and ACPI don't seem to get along very well. If I boot with ACPI, X
>will sometimes hang when starting or stopping. Doesn't appear to be very
>consistent or predictable, but I can't get through more than 1 clean start
>and stop of X without it locking the machine up solid.

>... I was wondering if any other T-series ThinkPad users have seen
>something like this?

That's one reason why I haven't switched to FreeBSD 5 yet.

Under STABLE, the only XFree86 vs. power management problem comes with 
hibernation.  When my T23 wakes up after hibernation, XFree86 is frozen.  
I have to switch to an ASCII console (ctrl-alt-f1) and back to X (alt-f12) 
to get it to limber up.  If the hibernation is manual rather than 
automatic, I can transition to ASCII console first before hibernating, and 
there is no wake-up freeze, but automatic because of flat battery is the 
usual reason to hibernate.
-- 
M/S 258-5                    |1024-bit PGP fingerprint:|[email protected]
NASA Ames Research Center    | 41 B0 89 0A  8F 94 6C 59|     (650) 604-4416
Moffett Field, CA  94035-1000| 7C 80 10 20  25 C7 2F E6|FAX: (650) 604-4377
Not an official NASA position.  You can't even be certain who sent this!


_______________________________________________
[email protected] mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.