Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:39:38 -0700 From: Karl Agee <kdagee@owt.com> To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Fwd: Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group? Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20030727193927.00a76330@pop3.owt.com>
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--=======7664288D======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-586C6D77; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:15:57 -0700 >To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> >From: Karl Agee <kdagee@owt.com> >Subject: Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group? > >Hi Greg and all: > >Laptop: Thinkpad iSeries 1300 >Video: Silicon Motion LynxEM+ chip >Screen: 800x600 hpa > >system: FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE > >Only the vga driver works, and not very well. Gives me only a 640x480 >display and the windows etc are not displayed properly (too large for the >display). This setup was configured using either xf86config or xf86cfg >-textmode. Using the "autodetect" selection froze the display, as does >trying to setup manually using the above and the silicon motion >driver. Killing X server doesnt work, have to reboot the machine. > >This notebook works fine with suse 8.1, Red Hat 9, Knoppix 3.1, etc. > >I did notice the XF86Config file is the old XFree 3.x series format, >apparently not the newer series 4.x format. (dont know if that is >significant). > >--karl > >At 11:10 AM 7/27/2003 +0930, you wrote: > >>On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 21:47:23 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: >> > I am having problems getting X set up properly on a laptop. Should >> > I post the question here or on the mobile list? >> >>Start here, but give some details. If this is a Dell Inspiron 5100, >>I'm working on it. >> >>Greg >>-- >>See complete headers for address and phone numbers --=======7664288D=======--
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