Re: hmmm tweaked too much
> I'm forwarding this to all people I can think of who could help. I'm
> begging for help (any) to get rid of these problems, these are *all* the
> problems I seem to be having. Five problems may not seem much but the
> consequences are BIG. So I beg, please help.
>
> I decided to install XFree86 4.0 on my laptop. X now runs *very* quickly
> and is very stable. However there several two irritating problems:
>
> (1) Suspending is now *lethal*. I never could suspend directly under
> xfree86 3.3.6 without first going to the text console and suspending
> there. However now even if I do that upon resuming X shows the state of
> it before I suspended but now with various black and yellow streaks down
> the screen. I have a Trident Cyber 9397 pci card in my laptop. The only
> way to get X to work is to kill it (<Ctrl>-<Alt>-<Backspace>) and reload
> it. however the second problem involves a reboot all the time. Upon
> quitting X (or leaving it for a while) I get the error:
>
> kernel: mtrr: no MTRR for fe400000,40000 found
> kernel: mtrr: MTRR 1 not used
> kernel: mtrr: reg 1 not used
>
> this happens every time.
MTRR support is a fairly new kernel option. You might have to recompile
a kernel to get it set. (anyone know if it was selected during the 2.2.15
compile making kernel-image and pcmcia-modules?)
> (2) The computer now runs at about 1/6 the speed after the resume and the
> "beeping" it makes is now also reduced to about 1/6 the original
> speed. So beeping errors under the console last ages. I upgraded from
> 2.2.14 to 2.2.15 to see if that helped but no. The laptop becomes very
> unstable and sometimes I get kernel panics and things don't really
> run. Hence why I need a reset. I'm sure (somehow) that X is responsible
> as as soon as it was installed everything started going haywire. with
> 3.3.6 all was okay (except one or two things, see later).
Eek. Something about registers, I'm guessing.
> (3) Transparent icons and text do not work. This is damn irritating
> mainly as wmpinboard has the most nasty yellow background I have ever
> seen. Any ideas on how to fix this? This is more a cosmetic touch but
> would be nice to fix as its probably very easy too. I've searched the X
> source and documentation and been unable to find anything useful. In deja
> the DPMS (???) has been linked to the lack of transparent icons under X
> 4.0 as KDE apparently reports this.
I'd consider this annoying enough to call X not working, if it were me.
> Now some problems that I was having before
>
> (4) Upon using sound (a Crystal CS4236) my entire keyboard mangles
> behaving as if I am
> holding down <Ctrl> all the time. This I can not get around and under the
> text console (all of them) the scroll lock key it on. However this
> doesn't freeze the console but instead when you press it you get a SysRq
> style "showTasks" appear. This doesn't disappear and contiued pressing of
> scroll lock repeat the showTasks command. I don't know why this happens
> however it happens 2 out of 3 times when using sound. The oly way to get
> rid of this is a reboot. On boot up the sound driver does report that
>
> ad1848: Interupt test failed (IRQ9)
>
> this may be related but sound still works (but only on IRQ 9). My Win95
> sound settings also use my setting for linux. dma=1, dma2=0, io=0x530,
> irq=9.
Dunno, all my critters use a different sound chip. (and once the silly dev
nodes are provided, they "just work".) Sorry on that one.
> (5) Flipping from the text console to the graphics console (X) sometimes
> screws up the screen and crashes the kernel. The screen looks like its
> "burning in". However I haven't experienced this problem with X
> 4.0. This problem also occurs when I try to use graphics under the text
> console, regardless of my version of X.
That creepy palette-shift melting effect, or ugly crazy lines? I think that
one means horiz sync is being overflowed, the other, the vertical, but I
don't know which one is which...
I have in the past usually resorted to a long session of forcing X to use
a specific modeline (expecting to have to bail via ^alt-backsp or Hard Power
many times) until I get one that looks kinda okay, even if imperfect. Then
I go nuts with xvidtune.
In a few cases I've found a laptop simply not caring about those so long as
its dotclock is happy.
Did you ever try framebuffer support, and if so, did it work, complain,
suffer the same tiny disasters...?
> Please I beg help as now my laptop is iffy at best. Some of these
> problems I reported before and I NEVER got ANY help.
>
> Alex
I know the above has a lot less direct answer than I usually offer, but
I figured I'd give it a shot.
-* Heather Stern * star@starshine.org *-
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