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From: Brad Laue <brad@brad-x.com>
To: Nick Slager <ns@BlueSkyFrog.COM>
Cc: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>,
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Subject: Re: Dell 8100 Inspiron XF86
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In the interim, using the vesa driver has worked for me; I can run at
1024x768 with acceptable performance using it.

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On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Nick Slager wrote:

> Thus spake Christoph Kukulies (kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE):
>
> > On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 09:48:49AM +0100, Rob Frohwein wrote:
> > > Did anybody get X working on the Inspiron 8100?
> > > XF86Config does not seem to recongnize the Nvidia card,
> > > this setup crashes.
> >
> > [ ... ]
> >
> > and there seems to be good news:
> > http://nvidia.netexplorer.org/news.html
>
> Indeed. The driver referred to there is at
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/nv-bsd/ ; I've yet to get it working
> with the Geforce2Go. The Geforce2Go has a second DAC to drive the LCD,
> so there may be issues to be resolved. I'm planning to play more this
> weekend.
>
> If you run -CURRENT, track down Matthew Dodd's driver. I've misplaced
> the URL; search the archives of this list. It was posted fairly
> recently.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Nick
>
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