From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 31 21:59:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C77C37B404 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:59:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from sdn-ar-007dcwashp301.dialsprint.net ([63.178.90.167] helo=moo.holy.cow) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16WWjH-0005y5-00; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:59:20 -0800 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2EA7F50BA8; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 01:01:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 01:01:23 -0500 From: parv To: Tim Kellers Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: heinous X and this blasted laptop Message-ID: <20020201060123.GA4840@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Tim Kellers , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20020131234721.T34511-200000@serv1.wallnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020131234721.T34511-200000@serv1.wallnet.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG in message <20020131234721.T34511-200000@serv1.wallnet.com>, wrote Tim Kellers thusly... > > Man, do I miss the VGA XF86Setup utility, but, now, I'm not sure > even it would help. I built XFree86 from ports, and I assumed > --I'm quite sure-- it is the 3.x flavor, not 4.x. ... > Anyway, X is still kicking my butt. Relevant hardware details are: > > Dell Inspiron C600 laptop FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE (built from sources, > fresh, after an initial minimimal ... > (--) SVGA: PCI: ATI Rage 128 Mobility LF rev 2, Memory @ 0xf8000000, MMIO @ 0xfdffc000, I/O @ 0xec00 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ... i am using XFree86 4.1.x on dell inspiron 5000e; X id's the ati chip as... (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Rage 128 Mobility LF rev 2, Mem @ 0xf8000000/26, 0xf4100000/14, I/O @ 0x2000/8 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ...and uses r128 driver. i have to upgrade from 3.3.x to 4.x as at the time there was no support for this chip in v3.3.x. so, if you try XF86 v4.x, then perhaps this XF86Config may be helpful... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/unix/cf/x/XF86Config ...mind you that there are some options in XF86Config which may not be compatible between v3.3.x and v4.1.x. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message