Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 09:43:20 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best X configurator for laptops? Message-ID: <20030331001320.GD3228@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <p05210633baaccf1e7533@[63.202.92.152]> References: <p05210630baacc46df3ae@[63.202.92.152]> <20030330162923.GL82863@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> <p05210633baaccf1e7533@[63.202.92.152]>
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--hxkXGo8AKqTJ+9QI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday, 30 March 2003 at 8:44:34 -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: > At 8:29 AM -0800 3/30/03, Nathan Kinkade wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 07:59:59AM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: >>> Hi again. I have a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop, now running 4.7. >>> xf86cfg and xf86config both give (different) unusable results for my >>> system. Which of the other X configurators in the ports collection >>> seem to do a good job on laptops, if any? >> >> You need to be more specific about the problems you are encountering. > > I was trying to avoid that because it doesn't seem like this is a > good place to debug particular XWindows problems. > > But, since you asked, the screen comes up blank. There are no > XWindows errors, just a blank screen. Can you exit the screen again with ctrl-alt-backspace? There were some problems with certain chip sets a while back. When I got my Inspiron 7500, I had the same problem (well, as far as you describe it). They needed to update XFree86 to fix it. You might find it a good idea to install the latest version of XFree86 from the Ports Collection. > Thus, my quest for a better configuration... You're jumping to conclusions that it's the configurator. 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 --hxkXGo8AKqTJ+9QI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+h4ggIubykFB6QiMRAlYEAJ4zIn6KL7eae+T5/dbe5vxdwOKXjACfT3Pb fVkCG4CGFlIuOExWBJ5xRPg= =yOCB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hxkXGo8AKqTJ+9QI--
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