From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 7 11:20:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wasp.eng.ufl.edu (wasp.eng.ufl.edu [128.227.116.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D731637B422 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 11:19:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eng.ufl.edu (scanner.engnet.ufl.edu [128.227.152.221]) by wasp.eng.ufl.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA26243; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 14:19:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <39B7DC43.44900465@eng.ufl.edu> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 14:19:47 -0400 From: Bob Johnson Organization: University of Florida X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mitayai@dreaming.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X on a Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 01:07:03 -0400 (EDT) > From: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe > Subject: X on a Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop > > Hello! > > I finally got my laptop running with FreeBSD (had to go and dig up a > rather ancient PCMCIA card to get it to work, and i still can't get it to > ifconfig automatically on boot-up, but that's anbother story and is just > a matter of time, i'm sure). > This should work without a problem. What sort of errors do you get? > But... my joy is tempered by the fact that i still can't get X working. > > FreeBSD 4.1 off CD, full X-windows installed, > Dell Inspiron 7000 with an 8 Meg ATI Mach64 (Rage II Pro). > > I start up the XF86Config program and my screen goes blank when it tried > to start the X Server. Took me a while to realize that it was directing > video off to the external port. Function-CRT/LCD does nothing. :-( > > Can anyone offer me suggestions on how to get X to actually use the LCD > screen? > Try entering the BIOS setup (probably press F2 during boot) and explicitly turn off the external display. X works fine on my Inspiron 7500, but I'm pretty sure I made that BIOS change as a precaution before I started the install. > Regards, > Mit > > > - --- > Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe > Toronto, Ontario, Canada > mitayai@dreaming.org > > > Good luck. - Bob -- ********************************************************* Bob Johnson Senior Systems Programmer bob@eng.ufl.edu College of Engineering 523 Weil Hall 352-392-9217 Office University of Florida 352-392-7063 Fax Gainesville, FL 32611 ********************************************************* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message