Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 20:28:13 -0600 From: "Mike Avery" <mavery@myrealbox.com> To: FreeBSD-Mobile@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BSD 4.6, X, and Savage IX w/MV woes Message-ID: <3D67EC5D.28438.1DB437B@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20020824220705.GA9746@laptop.lambertfam.org> References: <3D677D40.13121.4FAB070@localhost>
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On 24 Aug 2002 at 18:07, Scott Lambert wrote: > On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 12:34:08PM -0600, Mike Avery wrote: > > I'm trying to get my Toshiba 2755 laptop running with > > FreeBSD 4.6. Sadly, I bought this machine before I > > was thinking about running FreeBSD on a laptop. > > That's ok, it will probably work just fine. FreeBSD is great..... it's just X that isn't. I hate being Xless. > That sounds like the Savage chip that is in my Toshiba 2805 and which > has been working perfectly ever since XFree86 4.0.1. Make sure you > installed XFree86 4.x and *not* XFree86 3.x. 3.x doesn't work with > the Savage IX/MV. BTW, this is an XFree86 issue you are having, it's > not FreeBSD's fault. :-) XFree68 will work for you once we get the > magic incantations right. Don't dispare. I figured that.... but making sure the moon was in the right phase, that I was holding my tongue just so, and then trying to say the right words was getting frustrating. > > (Red Hat chokes on the Cisco > > PCM340 Card in the laptop. There is no joy in mudville. > > While I'd rather have FreeBSD working on the machine, > > my main goal is to get Microsoft OFF the machine.) > I haven't tried a Cisco card yet. But I've seen reports of success. I > wiped Windows off this machine the day after I bought it. The Cisco card works great under FreeBSD. It took two days to figure out how to make it happen <g>. > > I'd appreciate any pointers, tips, or answers you can > > share. I've been rt'ing the fm, and cursing google until > > my eyes cross.... so far, no joy. > I don't know how different the 2755 is from the 2805, but you might at > least want to try snarfing my XFree86 config file from: > http://www.LambertFam.org/~lambert/laptop/ Grabbed it... progress report will follow in a day or two. Thanks, Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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