Re: Nouveau still hangs on Dell Latitude E6400 laptop

[Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih%hamartun.priv.no@localhost>]

Iain Hibbert <plunky%ogmig.net@localhost> writes:

>> The caps lock key toggles its LED, for what it's worth.
>
> is it trying to tell you something?  IIRC some machines will flash a LED 
> with some code if there is nothing else they can do..

Ah, no.  :)  I meant that the caps lock key seems to work, so the
machine is not completely hung.

> you could boot -c and disable nouveau, or build a kernel without it
> (if you need to proceed)

Yeah, I'm running without nouveau for now.  Works fine, except that
Firefox (I use binary packages from netbsd.org) runs unbelievably
slowly.  I'm guessing that's because X falls back to a very pedestrian
graphics driver when I disable the correct hardware support.

-tih
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