From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 14 06:12:59 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F16116A41A for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:12:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from philip@ridecharge.com) Received: from EXHUB015-4.exch015.msoutlookonline.net (exhub015-4.exch015.msoutlookonline.net [207.5.72.96]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 924BC13C4D1 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:12:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from philip@ridecharge.com) Received: from philip.hq.rws (74.93.213.161) by smtpx15.msoutlookonline.net (207.5.72.103) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.0.744.0; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:12:58 -0800 Message-ID: <473A91E9.8040809@riderway.com> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:12:57 -0500 From: "Philip M. Gollucci" Organization: Riderway Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070919) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Freebsd questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: inspiron 1721 xorg/ati radeon 1270 Xpress freebsd amd64 8-current X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:12:59 -0000 Hi all, I just bought an Inspiron 1721 b/c I had a ridiculous deal. Its CPU: AMD Turion 64 x2 TL-64 (2.2GHz/1MB) RAM: 4GB pc25300 sodimm (2x2GB) (upgraded manually) Screen: 17.0 wide screen (1920x1200) VGA: ATI RADEON Xpress1270 256MB HyperMemory HD: 320G (2x 160) 5400RPM SATA UDMA33 RAID: ATI [fast track(tm)] Sound: Integrated High Definition Audio 2.0 (additional Sound Blaster X-FI Xtreme Audio Express yet to try) 1) Doesn't look like this video card is supported. Is there one I can buy and replace it with thats known to work preferably at 1920x1200 or as close as I can get to it. 2) The RAID card doesn't work, I called dell directly (via my rep) they can't tell me anything more specific about that card *sigh* disabling the RAID card via 'Cntrl-F' in the Fasttrack utility and in the BIOS 'F2' to Auto Detect works around this I suppose I'll take it apart soon and look at the raid card itself. I'm trying this with FreeBSD 8-CURRENT as of today, both GENERIC and a custom KERNEL. Detailed System Information is here: http://people.apache.org/~pgollucci/1720/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Philip M. Gollucci (philip@ridecharge.com) o:703.549.2050x206 Senior System Admin - Riderway, Inc. http://riderway.com / http://ridecharge.com 1024D/EC88A0BF 0DE5 C55C 6BF3 B235 2DAB B89E 1324 9B4F EC88 A0BF Work like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt, and dance like nobody's watching.