Display/Sound on PC-BSD 9.0-RC1 on Lenovo T400

[hpbsd]

Does anyone have a general working config? For me wireless and other general things seem to work fine.
But
1) scroll is too slow/scrappy so it seems I still do not have proper display setup/drivers.

2) I can hear sound via headphones but laptop speakers do not work.

I am new here so bare with my ignorance. Let me know and I will provide needed details.

[bgalakazam]

T400/T500 are fully supported. There is no 3D acceleration for ATI and the Intel driver is still being worked on. That being said, please tell us which video card you have set (if you have dual)?

As for sound, try the following and see if you still don't have sound:
$ mixer vol 90:90
$ mixer pcm 90:90
and then turn up the sound from the hardware buttons (press Vol Up a few times). Does sound work now?

[hpbsd]

Thanks a lot for your help.

T400/T500 are fully supported. There is no 3D acceleration for ATI and the Intel driver is still being worked on. That being said, please tell us which video card you have set (if you have dual)?

[user@bsd] ~# lspci | grep -i vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series


As for sound, try the following and see if you still don't have sound:
$ mixer vol 90:90
$ mixer pcm 90:90
and then turn up the sound from the hardware buttons (press Vol Up a few times). Does sound work now?

No it didn't.

[user@bsd] ~# lspci | grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

Let me know if I need to provide anything else.

[bgalakazam]

Per this thread (http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=12517), try:
1. snd_hda_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf
2. Reboot
3.# sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=1
There is some other useful information there if this doesn't work.

[hpbsd]

That didn't do the trick but will try to go through the link you posted and will update here.

Thanks again!

[adamk]

2D and basic 3D acceleration should work fine with the HD3400. Check your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file to see what driver you are using.

Adam

[hpbsd]

I think its RADEONHD(0)

I am not sure if this lag that I am feeling while browsing and all is expected or not. In other words my set up might not be correct regarding display/X too.

[adamk]

You may want to try the radeon driver instead of the radeonhd driver. I find radeon to be noticeably faster.

[hpbsd]

I switched back to "radion" but then, its not that crisp. Anything else I should be checking?

[adamk]

Show us your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file.

[hpbsd]

This is entire Xorg.0.log: http://pastebin.com/PEz5CzsZ

Thanks for the help!

[hpbsd]

$ sudo lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
00:03.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset MEI Controller (rev 07)
00:03.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset AMT SOL Redirection (rev 07)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M-E LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection
15:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ba)
15:00.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 04)

[hpbsd]

This is entire Xorg.0.log: http://pastebin.com/PEz5CzsZ

Thanks for the help!

I see following errors but couldn't find any solution:

(EE) RADEON(0): Acceleration initialization failed
(EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found)
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)

[adamk]

Remove the nvidia driver.

Also, what is the output of 'dmesg'?

Adam

[hpbsd]

Remove the nvidia driver.

Also, what is the output of 'dmesg'?

Adam

deinstalled /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-* - rebooted

dmesg is at: http://pastebin.com/inNb4t2K

Thanks!

[adamk]

OK, now that the nvidia driver is removed, show us the new /var/log/Xorg.0.log file.

Adam

[hpbsd]

OK, now that the nvidia driver is removed, show us the new /var/log/Xorg.0.log file.

Adam

http://pastebin.com/FijAWq3w

[adamk]

Well I'd still recommend the radeon driver over the radeonhd driver, but now, at least, radeonhd is setup properly. You should have good 2D acceleration and basic 3D acceleration.

Adam

[hpbsd]

Somehow I feel radeonhd is giving better results. I am still not sure if I can improve my display or not :D

[hpbsd]

Well I'd still recommend the radeon driver over the radeonhd driver, but now, at least, radeonhd is setup properly. You should have good 2D acceleration and basic 3D acceleration.

Adam

Okay, It was *refresh rate* which was killing my display.

I found a post of yours in Nov 2008 where you instructed to change refresh rate by xrandr and it did the trick.

Thanks a ton for your help to newbies like me...

Hat's off :)

[hpbsd]

Just for others reference,

I increased refresh rate from 60 to 75 to fix the problem.

(Not sure if that was because of bad refresh rate, but my screen was cut half an inch vertically from both the sides).

Display is all good now :)

Appreciate all the help.