From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 13 01:57:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 618F316A4DE; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:57:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B30AB43D45; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:57:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id AE14A9B486; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:27:12 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:27:12 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: David Gilbert Message-ID: <20060713015712.GF19708@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20060711.104708.1159134898.imp@bsdimp.com> <17589.15937.473805.148588@canoe.dclg.ca> <17589.17341.137936.745656@canoe.dclg.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wtjvnLv0o8UUzur2" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17589.17341.137936.745656@canoe.dclg.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 VoIP: sip:0871270137@sip.internode.on.net WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: Daniel Eischen , mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Laptop display chips (was: Dell laptops) X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:57:14 -0000 --wtjvnLv0o8UUzur2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 12 July 2006 at 14:47:25 -0400, David Gilbert wrote: >>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Eischen writes: > > Daniel> I didn't make the mistake of getting a system with an nvidia > Daniel> chip ;-) It's an Intel 945 of some sort and I don't have X set > Daniel> up on it yet, so it's strictly console right now. > > Well... given my sister's Dell's problems with it's intel chipset > video, I would definately stay away from that. I also value 3D > performance and the Nvidia 6800 in the XPS is "somewhat" better than > the Intel 945 (to understate the issue). I didn't mention this before, because it's not directly relevant to FreeBSD, but I've also had serious problems with the graphics chip in my Inspiron 6000: I can't get it to drive a projector correctly. This is a machine with 1920x1200 display and the following chip set (sorry for the Linux): 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Radeon Mobility M300] (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 2003 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11 Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] I/O ports at de00 [size=256] Memory at dfdf0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at dfd00000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint IRQ 0 Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable- Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting The LCD display works perfectly with FreeBSD and also most versions of Linux (some don't recognize the aspect ratio or the resolution of the screen). But I can't get X to change the horizontal frequency, which is set at 74.1 kHz, too high for most projectors. The driver just ignores any attempts to set a mode line with a different frequency. I assume this is a bug in the X driver. FWIW, the chips with which I've had the fewest problems have been nVidia, though all my experience with them has been in desktop class machines. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --wtjvnLv0o8UUzur2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEtah4IubykFB6QiMRAk5vAKCGziI0WESVEE0zya5QR0VLOB+zDgCfUKil Q+QHqhQ/n7iOUYHziR/DVoU= =+Vfa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wtjvnLv0o8UUzur2--