Issues with 5.3-p2, Xorg-6.8.1 and ThinkPads?

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 20:43:42 -0500
> From: James Snow <snow at teardrop.org>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> 
> I'm curious to know if anyone has seen abnormally frequent crashes
> running 5.3-p2 with Xorg-6.8.1 on a ThinkPad. My T22 has begun to be
> a bit more cantankerous than I'm accustomed to after I portupgraded
> to Xorg-6.8.1. xli will reliably lock up the X server when scrolling
> images, for example. Just now it locked up solid in the middle of a
> portupgrade of Firefox.
> 
> Unfortunately, my laptop took a small tumble off a sofa shortly after
> the aforementioned Xorg portupgrade, so it's entirely possible that
> this is an issue with my hardware. The laptop isn't visibly damaged and
> doesn't report any obvious errors, so I'm hoping - for my wallet's sake
> - that it's an issue with the new Xorg. 
> 
> Is anyone with a ThinkPad that hasn't just been dropped seeing any
> issues?

My ThinkPad T30 (which has a Radeon M7) has not had any such problems,
although it's running 5-Stable, not 5..3.
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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