855 chipset resolution + general "bad behaviour" of an FJS Lifebook P7010 laptop

[Vim Visual]

Hi Fred,

thanks for the information about xorg.conf... I was really wondering
how comes xorg can work without .conf It's the first time in my
7-years-unix life that I see this.

Unfortunately your email came too late, after I had already spent some
2 hours configuring per hand xorg.conf... now it's done

In any case I don't understand what is going on because 915resolution
doesn't find out the
mode:

-----------------------------------------------------------------
915resolution -l | grep 1280x768
-------------------------------------------------------------

yields nothing. The compiled c patch (see thread 855 chipset
resolution) is not working either...

Another "funny" thing is that suddenly today the CPU was very hot and
the fans going crazy. I made a top and

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
load averages:  1.26,  0.58,  0.25                                     15:23:41
46 processes:  1 running, 44 idle, 1 on processor
CPU states: 57.4% user,  0.0% nice, 42.6% system,  0.0% interrupt,  0.0% idle
Memory: Real: 99M/214M act/tot  Free: 780M  Swap: 0K/3584M used/tot

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    WAIT     TIME    CPU COMMAND
14336 root      64    0  624K 1748K run      -        0:38 82.57% gdm-binary
 2426 pau        2    0 6096K   14M sleep    poll     0:01  1.03% gnome-terminal
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

gdm is using 82.57% of the CPU?!??!

I don't know what the problem is... I would like to believe that the
problem is THIS laptop. I have never seen anything like that in the
crashbox, an ibm 43...

And in general everything is about 15% slower than with linux... I
notice that even when deleting lines outside of X. Why is that?

I haven't installed tons of things; just some 12 packages.

Today I installed the gimp and it's crashing all the time

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(gimp:5968): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_convert: assertion `str != NULL' failed

(gimp:5968): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_convert: assertion `str != NULL' failed

(gimp:5968): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_convert: assertion `str != NULL' failed

(gimp:5968): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_convert: assertion `str != NULL' failed

(gimp:5968): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_convert: assertion `str != NULL' failed

(gimp:5968): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_convert: assertion `str != NULL' failed

(gimp:5968): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_convert: assertion `str != NULL' failed

(gimp:5968): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_convert: assertion `str != NULL' failed

(gimp:5968): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_convert: assertion `str != NULL' failed

(gimp:5968): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_convert: assertion `str != NULL' failed

(gimp:5968): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_convert: assertion `str != NULL' failed
zsh: 5968 segmentation fault  gimp
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(no, it doesn't have anything to do with zsh... it's the same with ksh)

Another point:

firefox (1.5.0.x) is _crashing_ very often... and I couldn't fix
totally the anti-aliasing thing explained in the faqs

Bouuuf...

No, if you use o'bsd for a server you don't need the gimp, of course!
But I want o'bsd for a desktop and I don't feel like chopping a region
of a png file with vi, even if it'd possible in principle...

all this is very frustrating...

well, wireless is working... but that's a blobish thing... not so happy

I think I'm going to drop it... and it's really VERY frustrating... I
was starting to play with pf and it's just amazing

Cheers,

Pau


> The Xorg X server doesn't need an xorg.conf to run - it probes, and try
> to work out the right answer on startup.  An xorg.conf would be useful
> if the result server doesn't fulfill your requirements for some reason,
> ie your hardware is incorrectly setup, or you want to run an unusual set up.
>
> HTH
>
> Fred
> --
> OpenBSD on the Zaurus C3200
> http://www.crowsons.net/puters/zaurus.php
>