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Date:      Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:59:44 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "user.unknown" <UseR.UnKNoWn@prodigy.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Dell laptop, NeoMagic chipset (was: X on a laptop)
Message-ID:  <19980810085944.V11095@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <35CE2594.8E5380BA@prodigy.net>; from user.unknown on Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 06:41:25PM -0400
References:  <35CE2594.8E5380BA@prodigy.net>

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On Sunday,  9 August 1998 at 18:41:25 -0400, user.unknown wrote:

It would be nice to know your name.

> I want to run X on a laptop (Dell lattitude CP w/ neomagic) but can't
> seem to get it to start.  I can't afford a commercial server/drivers
> either.  If anyone has gotten X to run on a laptop, please hook me up
> with the info/files.

This isn't a generic problem.  NeoMagic refused to divulge programming
information for their chip sets, so the XFree86 project couldn't write
a driver for it.  Others have.  Check out
http://www.mnsinc.com/js/Neomagic.html.

Greg
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