From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Mar 31 12:43:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from axp5.physik.fu-berlin.de (axp5.physik.fu-berlin.de [160.45.34.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01C6D37BFC8 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 12:43:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dieringe@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de) Received: from sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de [160.45.34.162]) by axp5.physik.fu-berlin.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA20705; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 22:43:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (dieringe@localhost) by sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA04716; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 22:43:40 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 22:43:39 +0200 (MET DST) From: Martin Dieringer To: bwoods2@uswest.net Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XF86 4.0 on a laptop.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have XFree 4.0 running on a thinkpad 600 and it's running ok. I *think* it's a bit faster. The xset +dpms doesn't switch off the screen anymore, so I use xautolock with 'apm -d 0' for this now. the XF86Config has to be edited. I think I used xf86config again. I can't start xdm from rc.local anymore because the keyboard would be dead. So I startx manually now. That's what X finds out about the video chip: (--) PCI:*(0:3:0) Neomagic NM2160 rev 1, Mem @ 0xe0000000/24, 0x20000000/21, 0x20200000/20 (II) NEOMAGIC(0): Chipset is a MagicGraph 128XD (NM2160) (--) NEOMAGIC(0): Panel is a 1024x768 color TFT display (--) NEOMAGIC(0): VideoRAM: 2048 kByte (**) NEOMAGIC(0): Default mode "1024x768": 65.0 MHz, 48.4 kHz, 60.0 Hz martin On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, William Woods wrote: > I currently have a IBM Thinkpad 600E running 4.0-stable with XF86 3.3.6. All > seems to be well with it , I have it running in 1024X768. I am debating utting > XF86 4.0 on it. Are there any special considerations when doing this? I > understand that XF86 4.0 does not have the graphical setup in it. How is the > autodetect of vid cards? Will XF86 4.0 read the old /etc/XF86Config file from > 3.3.6? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message