On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Greg Troutman wrote:

> Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 12:59:38 -0800
> From: Greg Troutman <mor@linex.com>
> To: port-i386@netbsd.org
> Subject: X on Laptops?
>
> I have a Compaq Contura 420CX with 32Mb Ram.  It installed NetBSD 1.6
> via a Lucent/WaveLAN card no problem.  Okay, now I want to run X...
> After I run xf86config and select the wd90c24 driver, which the Linux
> for Laptops page says is in this little beastie, I run startx and after
> getting a brief glimpse of the default X screen, it crashes back out
> with this error:
>
> (EE) No OS PCI Support available
>
> What the heck does that mean? Nothing in the config ever references PCI
> so I'm stumped.  If anyone has a working XF86Config for this laptop I'd
> appreciate it if you could just send it to me.
>
> Thanks!!!

Greg,

Can't tell you why, but I had the same problem when I upgraded my ThinkPad
755C to 1.6 from 1.4.1 (it uses the WD 90c24a chip).  I solved the problem
by ripping out 4.2 and downloading the 1.6 XFree 3.3.6 snapshot Manuel had
stored up on the NetBSD ftp site.

It might be nice if it said this and gave the option when installing the
sets, something like "older boxes may be happier with 3.3.6".

Hope it helps.


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