Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:33:05 +0000 From: "Jonathan T. Sage" <sagejona@theatre.msu.edu> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2 and Dell Inspiron 5100 Message-ID: <4019A641.8010404@theatre.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040130000020.GK49973@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <401980D0.4000908@theatre.msu.edu> <1075413704.761.127.camel@gyros> <20040130000020.GK49973@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig1327EEC32223C51DD5E19C62 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greg - yeah, I did turn this site up on my travels. I'm not much of a coder, do you suppose for the time being I could get a diff vs. the X source that you used? Also, I'd be happy to test anything anyone comes up with in the future. On a related note, has anyone had any luck getting the touchpad to fire up? Every time I've booted I've had a USB mouse connected without problem, but the touchpad dosn't detect at all. Kernel does include psm support. Thanks much ~j Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 29 January 2004 at 17:01:44 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > >>On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 16:53, Jonathan T. Sage wrote: >> >>>Hello - recently purchased a dell inspiron 5100. Out of the box, 5.2 >>>installed wonderfully. More than wonderfully. The only issue I ran >>>into was with X. I am unable to use X with agp support compiled into the >>>kernel. While this is a perfectly acceptable workaround, I was curious >>>if there is a fix for this issue (DRI/DRM would be great sometime down >>>the road). If not, and me not being a coder, what information might I >>>be able to provide that would help the process along in getting this >>>card to work properly "out-of-the-box". >>> >>>Any infortmation would be fantastic >> >>Search the archives on freebsd-mobile for answers to this. Greg Lehey >>has done some extensive work on this issue, and has an even nastier >>workaround. > > > The problem I had, which may no longer exist, was that the video BIOS > was not all mapped (specifically, the last 16 kB were not mapped). > The X server accesses this area at startup to get information about > the display, so it fails. My solution was to compile the video BIOS > into the X server, agreed a very nasty workaround. See > http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-jul2003.html#25 for more details. The > correct answer, of course, is to find out why this area isn't being > mapped. FWIW, Knoppix Linux works fine. > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > See complete headers for address and phone numbers. -- Jonathan T. Sage Theatrical Lighting / Set Designer Professional Web Design [HTTP://www.JTSage.com] [sagejona@theatre.msu.edu] [See Headers for Contact Info] --------------enig1327EEC32223C51DD5E19C62 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAGaZEoVmW2UUup/ERAjWmAJ9r4eZ8fvcTSfiPyKwDx7yteB2SMACgjzcD fioQGEpmNI0icjxcBO4drcE= =Cv+K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig1327EEC32223C51DD5E19C62--
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