From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 30 18:10:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5321616A4CE; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 18:10:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from sizone.org (mortar.sizone.org [65.126.154.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D320343FDD; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 18:10:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: by sizone.org (Postfix, from userid 66) id 0B5BF3077A; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 02:10:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: by canoe.dclg.ca (Postfix, from userid 101) id 73B501D245C; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 21:10:54 -0500 (EST) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16330.41774.186801.586670@canoe.dclg.ca> Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 21:10:54 -0500 To: pirat In-Reply-To: <20031129215515.GA332@thai-aec.org> References: <20031119105914.GA20096@thai-aec.org> <20031120013737.GF22360@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20031126043458.GA1947@thai-aec.org> <1069822454.7292.147.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20031129215515.GA332@thai-aec.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 14) "Reasonable Discussion" XEmacs Lucid cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 1100 and FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 02:10:52 -0000 >>>>> "pirat" == pirat writes: >> onboard > > NIC is supported in stable, but I had some problems >> starting X: the > > BIOS wasn't completely mapped, and I had to >> compile it in to the > > server. See >> http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-jul2003.html#25 for more > > >> details. That won't help much with the 1100's X. It's got an intel chipset for it's video ... and frustratingly, the BIOS only allocates 842k of video memory. I have a chunk of linux code that fixes this, but I havn't gotten this going in FreeBSD yet. Basically X will run in 1024x768x8bit mode ... which is sub-optimal. It was a pain before to run in 8 bit, but now it's horrid (as few, if any, applications are in the least bit 8bit aware). ... Now if you have the old (Phoenix ?) BIOS "A06" ... aparently you're good to go. There's a BIOS option for more RAM... but the new "Dell" BIOS (A20 and newer) have no option for this. Sux. I'd even settle for A06 ... but I can't find a copy of it. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================