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Date:      Wed, 20 Jun 2001 17:41:30 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        riccardo@athena.polito.it
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: FreeBSD 4.3 on Inspiron 8000
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20010620174130.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <3B30591A.81647FF1@polito.it>
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On 20-Jun-2001 Riccardo Scandariato wrote:
>  Did someone succesfully install FreeBSD 4.3 on Dell Inspiron 8000?

Yep.

>  I experienced the following problems:
>  no CD
>  no XFree
>  no PCCARD
>  no Sound

Works for me :)

>  My machine:
>  Inspiron 8000
>  
>  Video: ATI Rage Mobility M4 (+32 M)
>  Audio: ESS Maestro
>  CD:    Thoshiba DVD-ROM SD-C2402
>  Net:   Xircon CardBus 10/100 + Modem 56K (RBEM56)
>  
>  Thanks in advance for your help (I'm a newbie of fBSD)

The DVD from is a known issue I think.

My kernel config and XF86 config file are attached.

My /boot/loader.conf contains..
userconfig_script_load="YES"
snd_maestro3_load="YES"
usb_load="YES"
ums_load="YES"
autoboot_delay="2"

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum

[-- Attachment #2 --]
machine		i386
cpu		I686_CPU
ident		CHOWDER
maxusers	64

#makeoptions	DEBUG=-g		#Build kernel with gdb(1) debug symbols

options		INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE
options		USER_LDT
options		DDB

options 	INET			#InterNETworking
options 	FFS			#Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options 	FFS_ROOT		#FFS usable as root device [keep this!]
options 	SOFTUPDATES		#Enable FFS soft updates support
options 	COMPAT_43		#Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!]
options 	UCONSOLE		#Allow users to grab the console
options 	USERCONFIG		#boot -c editor
options 	VISUAL_USERCONFIG	#visual boot -c editor
options 	KTRACE			#ktrace(1) support
options 	SYSVSHM			#SYSV-style shared memory
options 	SYSVMSG			#SYSV-style message queues
options 	SYSVSEM			#SYSV-style semaphores
options 	P1003_1B		#Posix P1003_1B real-time extensions
options 	_KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING

device		isa
device		pci

# Floppy drives
device		fdc0	at isa? port IO_FD1 irq 6 drq 2
device		fd0	at fdc0 drive 0

# ATA and ATAPI devices
device		ata0	at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14
device		ata1	at isa? port IO_WD2 irq 15
device		ata
device		atadisk			# ATA disk drives
device		atapicd			# ATAPI CDROM drives
options 	ATA_STATIC_ID		# Static device numbering

# atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse
device		atkbdc0	at isa? port IO_KBD
device		atkbd0	at atkbdc? irq 1 flags 0x1
device		psm0	at atkbdc? irq 12

options		PSM_HOOKRESUME		# hook the system resume event, useful
					# for some laptops
options		PSM_RESETAFTERSUSPEND   # reset the device at the resume event

device		vga0	at isa?

# splash screen/screen saver
pseudo-device	splash

# syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console
device		sc0	at isa? flags 0x100

# Floating point support - do not disable.
device		npx0	at nexus? port IO_NPX irq 13

# Power management support (see LINT for more options)
device		apm0    at nexus? flags 0x20 # Advanced Power Management

# PCCARD (PCMCIA) support
device		card
device		pcic0	at isa? irq 10 port 0x3e0 iomem 0xd0000

# Serial (COM) ports
device		sio0	at isa? port IO_COM1 flags 0x10 irq 4
device		sio1	at isa? port IO_COM2 irq 3

# Parallel port
device		ppc0	at isa? irq 7
device		ppbus		# Parallel port bus (required)
device		lpt		# Printer
device		ppi		# Parallel port interface device

#device		fxp		# Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B (82557, 82558)

# Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocate.
pseudo-device	loop		# Network loopback
pseudo-device	ether		# Ethernet support
pseudo-device	tun		# Packet tunnel.
pseudo-device	pty		# Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc)
pseudo-device	bpf		# Berkeley packet filter
pseudo-device	snp		# Snoop device

device		smbus		# Bus support, required for smb below.

device		intpm
device		ichsmb

device		smb

device		iicbus          # Bus support, required for ic/iic/iicsmb below.
device		iicbb

device		ic
device		iic
device		iicsmb          # smb over i2c bridge

options		IPFIREWALL
options		IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT
options		IPDIVERT

[-- Attachment #3 --]
# XFree86 4.0 configuration generated by Xconfigurator

Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier    "XFree86 Configured"
  Screen         0  "Screen0" 0 0
  InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
  InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

# By default, Red Hat Linux 6.0 and later use xfs

Section "Files"
  RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
  ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf/"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
EndSection

# This loads all the modules...

Section "Module"
  Load  "GLcore"
  Load  "dbe"
  Load  "dri"
  Load  "extmod"
  Load  "glx"
  Load  "pex5"
  Load  "record"
  Load  "xie"
  Load  "v4l"

  Load  "type1"
  Load  "bitmap"
  Load  "speedo"
#  Load  "freetype"
  Load  "xtt"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier  "Keyboard0"
  Driver      "keyboard"
  Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
  Option      "XkbOptions"  "ctrl:nocaps"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier  "Mouse0"
  Driver      "mouse"
  Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse"
  Option      "Protocol" "auto"
  Option      "Buttons" "5"
  #Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
  #Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
  Identifier "CustomConfiguration"
  VendorName "Unknown"
  ModelName  "Unknown"
  HorizSync  31.5 - 82.0
  VertRefresh 50 - 70
  Modeline "1400x1050" 116.22 1400 1416 1704 1816 1050 1050 1060 1097
  Option      "DPMS"
#  DisplaySize 285 215
EndSection

Section "Device"
  Identifier "ATI|Rage Mobility M4 AGP"
  Driver     "r128"
  BoardName  "Unknown"
  Option     "dpms"
#  Option     "backingstore"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
  Identifier        "Screen0"
  Device            "ATI|Rage Mobility M4 AGP"
  Monitor           "CustomConfiguration"
  DefaultColorDepth 24
  Subsection "Display"
      Depth    24
      Modes    "1400x1050"
      ViewPort 0 0
  EndSubsection
#  Subsection "Display"
#      Depth    32
#      Modes    "1400x1050"
#      ViewPort 0 0
#  EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
EndSection
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