From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 16 12:55:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C97D37B66F for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:55:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from foo.osd.bsdi.com (root@foo.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.137]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9GJrq504737; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:53:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by foo.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9GJq4c34049; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:52:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20001014142353.L1489@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:52:04 -0700 (PDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 5000/7500 Cc: FreeBSD Questions , Kenneth Wayne Culver , Jan Knepper , "Paul T. Root" , Steve Jorgensen Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 14-Oct-00 Greg Lehey wrote: > I don't have web access at the moment, but I suspect this refers to a > problem with blanking under 3.3.6. I chose to upgrade to 4.0.1 on my > Inspiron 7500. After a little bit of manual configuration, it works > fine at 1400x1050. I'm attaching the XF86Config. For my 5000e, I had to use X-current to get a working server. It is now happily running at 1600x1200. >> One thing you didn't ask about is sound. The 7500 sound is >> not currently supported; however, it is being worked on. > > It works under -CURRENT, but the volume is a little low. I don't > recall that I had to do any special configuration. It has been MFC'd to stable as well. >> I got sound working (only through the headphone jack - known >> problem) with the beta code for that sound chip set. > > The -CURRENT code doesn't seem to have that problem. Yeah, my speakers work just fine here under -current. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.Baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message