From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Mar 13 8:44: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from luke.pmr.com (luke.pmr.com [207.170.114.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4C0914CE8 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 08:44:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bob@luke.pmr.com) Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.pmr.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id KAA39157 for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 10:43:44 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bob) Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 10:43:44 -0600 From: Bob Willcox To: mobile list Subject: Re: XFree86 configuration on Dell Inspiron 7000? -- SOLVED!! :-) Message-ID: <19990313104344.A38949@luke.pmr.com> Reply-To: Bob Willcox References: <19990311004019.A4194@luke.pmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990311004019.A4194@luke.pmr.com>; from Bob Willcox on Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 12:40:19AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message