From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Dec 1 20:52: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from peitho.fxp.org (peitho.fxp.org [209.26.95.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58B7337B416 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 20:52:02 -0800 (PST) Received: by peitho.fxp.org (Postfix, from userid 1501) id 57C2B13651; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 23:51:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 23:51:56 -0500 From: Chris Faulhaber To: chris barlas Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 4000 X Message-ID: <20011201235156.A74738@peitho.fxp.org> Mail-Followup-To: Chris Faulhaber , chris barlas , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <20011202043912.ETRA8659.femail44.sdc1.sfba.home.com@europa.makenode.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011202043912.ETRA8659.femail44.sdc1.sfba.home.com@europa.makenode.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 10:42:01PM -0600, chris barlas wrote: > I recently purchased an inspiron 4000 from dell and have been using > Mandrake 8.1rc1 on it since day 1 with no issues at all. I decided that > i really like to have freebsd on the top, so i have installed 4.4. > Everything is working great with the exception of x. I have searched > far and wide and have found little or no info on getting x to work with > the 4000 series. Anyone else out there using this laptop? Please help.. > both configuration tools do not work. xf86setup /xf86config. One the > screen just flickers, and the other just doesn't even try to run the > xserver. =20 >=20 Have you tried the X configuration you used with Mandrake (you may need a bit of tweaking WRT the mouse device name and font paths)? Alternatively, there are links over a dozen web pages for linux users with this laptop at http://www.linux-laptop.net/dell.html, some with working X config files (e.g. http://theory.gsi.de/~vanhees/XF86Config-Dell-inspiron4000) that you can tweak. --=20 Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: FreeBSD: The Power To Serve iEYEARECAAYFAjwJs2sACgkQObaG4P6BelApgACff71pkKJbduJ28FDHv2AIVMoB CooAn2FIHcLCDeXtYdIUeEbN6VNahUk3 =myvy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message