Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:00:56 -0400 From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> To: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Dell I5000 and x.org or xfree86-4.4 Message-ID: <20040828190056.GA48343@pit.databus.com>
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Has anybody with a Dell Inspiron 5000 gotten it to work with X.org or XFree86-4.4? In both cases, the panel is black, the backlight is on. The display adapter is putting out a signal, because hooking a crt up shows the usual screen. Changing resolutions with ctl-alt-+ does no good - it changes on the crt but the panel stays black. XFree86-4.3 works fine on this laptop, even under 6-current as of 8/25/04. Another use has the same experience so it's not just broken hardware. Switching between lcd/crt with the Fn-key does no good either. That works in text mode and in XFree86-4.3 but in -4.4 or xorg the crt goes on and off but the panel never lights up. I've tried -4.4 with the XFree86.config from -4.3 and with no config, and x.org with no config and adding a modeline to the generated config, to no avail. All versions detect the native panel resolution of 1400x1050. This problem is not unique to fbsd - the Fedora2 install cd behaves identically. Please cc me on replies, as I'm not subscribed to the list. Thanks for any insights, Barney Wolff
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