From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 30 20:59:25 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DA8316A4CF; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 20:59:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [198.92.228.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF9FB43D2F; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 20:59:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 242AC6128; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:59:24 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 85206-08; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:59:21 -0600 (CST) Received: from [198.92.228.34] (racerx.makeworld.com [198.92.228.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62F4F6110; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:59:21 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <41FD4AED.6080200@makeworld.com> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 15:00:29 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050101) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer References: <20050130205650.C370416A4CF@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20050130205650.C370416A4CF@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: x11@freebsd.org cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Inspiron 7500 vs x.org server X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 20:59:25 -0000 Julian Elischer wrote: > Adding more to this.. x.org has this as bug 1109 > It was erroneously linked as a duplicate of 1881 which has > been fixed, however that was a bug in the radeon driver and this > is the ati driver. > > If anyone knows what the Linux "vga=793" or (whatever it is) > kernel option does and whether there is somethign equivalent for freeBSD > that would be interesting. > > > >>Ok, so hearing good things about the x.org server >>and having seen it work elsewhere, I upgraded my laptop >>from XFree86 to x.org today.. >>all went fine.. >>Except running it I just get a black screen. >>no errors.. The Server thinks it's doing just fine.. >> >>ok, so I go to my wife's ibook and surf around a bit and discover >>that this is known.. Dell Inspiron 7500 and x.org >>have this problem. >> >>There is talk of a workaround in linux.. setting a kernel argument to >>vga=753 or someothing similar, and there is one posting that talks about >>a similar workaround for FreeBSD existing, but I have not been >>able to find the workaround itself. Apparently this has been solved >>somewhere as well, but I can't find any specific reference to what the fix >>is/was. >> >>If anyone has a hint as to what the problem is (apparently some IBM >>laptops have the same problem (they use the same Rage mobility-M chip). >> >>Looking forward to having X again... >> >>If anyone has a dell 7500 working with x,org, I'd love to get a copy >>of your ati driver or a description of how you solved it.. >> >>T.I.A. >> >>Julian I never had an issue running Xorg with my 7500 *shrug* -- Best regards, Chris Real programmers drink too much coffee so that they will always seem tense and overworked.