Hi David! On 02/08/2018 16:16, David Brownlee wrote:
On 30 July 2018 at 18:53, Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost> wrote:2) with a little more heavy usage (I was removign packages, updating trees, etc) the tlp0 interface started complaining about timeouts. Only a reboot recovers! tlp0: transmit timeout tlp0: filter setup and transmit timeout I now really wish I'd kept my old ThinkPad 560 :)
I think they are of similar vintage, but mine is a little larger and has a different video card. Checking ThinkWiki yours has a broken Trident driver, I have a NeoMagic driver which work(ed). You should have kept it for the fun! and doesn't it have a nice keyboard feeling? Sometimes I still love to code on it... open gvim or emacs and go! of course... compiling takes some time :)
That is pretty wacky... Can you edit your xorg.conf (or create one) and under the Section "Device" add: Option "HWCursor" "off" to see if that helps?
I actually put it in the screen section, like this: Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor "Monitor0" Option "SWCursor" "on" Option "HWCursor" "off" EndSection Nothing else, I had no xorg.confand yes! I have a mouse now. Does this mean HW support for the cursor broke in a strange way?
As a data point you could also try extracting a copy of netbsd-6 with X11 into a subdir, then chroot into it and try starting X from there. If it still has the mouse display issue then its a kernel issue, otherwise X11...
Do I still need to do that or is the xorg.conf check enough? My hard disk is small :-P This is also why I upgraded in-place. I suppose that we know it is an X11 isse, or does HW cursor go through the kernel?
Do you have a netbsd-6 dmesg to compare where the various devices attach to see if there are any differences for tlp or the cardbus?
Unluckily, no, I did not save one and I don't have the old kernel. Perhaps I can dig up the old email where I got the suggestion and/or my old 6.x series conf file. One thing at a time :)
Riccardo