Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 10:43:44 -0600 From: Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com> To: mobile list <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: XFree86 configuration on Dell Inspiron 7000? -- SOLVED!! :-) Message-ID: <19990313104344.A38949@luke.pmr.com> In-Reply-To: <19990311004019.A4194@luke.pmr.com>; from Bob Willcox on Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 12:40:19AM -0600 References: <19990311004019.A4194@luke.pmr.com>
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Just incase there are other Dell Inspiron 7000 owners out there that
would like to have XFree86 running on their machine and haven't
discovered this yet, a friend of mine that works for Dell pointed me to
this web site:
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/
There is alot of good information about the I7k here (though it is Linux
centric:-(). One of the links takes you to information on getting
XFree86 running. The author presents 3 methods to do this. I used
method 1. The others don't look so good: method 2 probably requires
Linux, method 3 requires building a "monitor dongle" to fool the machine
into thinking it has an external display attached. Method 1 points to
some XF86Config files (I used only the modelines from these, and am
using the modeline from first one currently). It also requires some
changes to the XF86_Mach64 server which are provided. I simply updated
the 3 XF86_Mach64 server files with the ones provided, rebuilt and
installed it, started X and it worked!!
I hope this helps some fellow FreeBSDers out there!
Bob
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 12:40:19AM -0600, Bob Willcox wrote:
> Does anybody have a XF86Config file for a Dell Inspiron 7000 that they
> would be willing to email me?
>
> Thanks,
> Bob
>
> --
> Bob Willcox The man who follows the crowd will usually get no
> bob@luke.pmr.com further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is
> Austin, TX likely to find himself in places no one has ever
> been. -- Alan Ashley-Pitt
--
Bob Willcox The man who follows the crowd will usually get no
bob@luke.pmr.com further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is
Austin, TX likely to find himself in places no one has ever
been. -- Alan Ashley-Pitt
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