From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 27 19:40:58 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F398D37B401 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:40:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CDE443FA3 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:40:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kdagee@owt.com) Received: from enterprise.owt.com (pm5-s26.owt.com [208.8.78.26]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h6S2euk24327 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:40:56 -0700 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20030727193927.00a76330@pop3.owt.com> X-Sender: kdagee@pop3.owt.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:39:38 -0700 To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Karl Agee Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-586C6D77; boundary="=======7664288D=======" Subject: Fwd: Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 02:40:58 -0000 --=======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" >From: Karl Agee >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=======--