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From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
To: "Daniel Smyth" <daniels@espl.com.au>
Subject: Re: xf86config woes
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 07:59:16 -0500
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The best success I have had is to to to the the linux-for-laptops page and 
grab a working XF86Config from somebody there.

Also, are  you using X 4.x.x  ATI Mobility is not supported by XFree86 3.x.x?

FreeBSD still installs X 3 by default; you have to tell it *not* to install X 
and then pick the Xfree86 4.x.x package in order to get the useful version of 
X.

I hope that this will change in the not too distant future, though I'm 
informed that Freebsd 4.5 will still have the obsolete version of X by 
default.


On Monday 14 January 2002 11:50 pm, you wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've been trying to get X up and running on a Compaq Evo N160 notebook.
>
> Specs
>
> ATI Mobility Radeon M6-P 4x AGP
> 14inch TFT XGA display
>
> Tried the VGA,  SVGA, Mach 32 and Mach 64 servers every which way!
>
> The Compaq documentation is appalling no horizontal and vertical refresh
> rates with the machine or on their web.
>
> I've had happy experiences installing FreeBSD and Linux with X on my PC but
> this notebook problem this has got me licked.
>
> Hope somone can help. Thanks.
>
> Dan

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