From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 28 19:00:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A9C316A4CE for ; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 19:00:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pit.databus.com (p70-227.acedsl.com [66.114.70.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD36D43D54 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 19:00:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from barney@pit.databus.com) Received: from pit.databus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pit.databus.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i7SJ0uQm048393 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:00:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from barney@pit.databus.com) Received: (from barney@localhost) by pit.databus.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i7SJ0urQ048392 for x11@freebsd.org; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:00:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from barney) Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:00:56 -0400 From: Barney Wolff To: x11@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040828190056.GA48343@pit.databus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.44 Subject: Dell I5000 and x.org or xfree86-4.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 19:00:58 -0000 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