Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 16:56:39 -0700 (MST) From: Colin Eric Johnson <colinj@cs.unm.edu> To: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Latitude CPi Message-ID: <Pine.GSU.4.05.9811281649340.3739-100000@viper.cs.unm.edu> In-Reply-To: <3244.911395578@gjp.erols.com>
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On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Gary Palmer wrote: > Christian Kuhtz wrote in message ID > <19981115210831.A5535@ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com>: > > Anyone out there who also has a Dell Latitude CPi 266XD notebook and would > > like to share configuration experiences? If so, please contact me at > > ck@adsu.bellsouth.com. I will summarize. > > I have one (through work). Seems to work OK. Caveats: > > 1) Uses the NeoMagic display chipset, so either wait for the new XF86 release > or get AccelX from www.xig.com (I prefer the latter ... accelx is just > so much nicer. No offense to the XFree group) I'd have to agree 100% on this one. I just tried the new XFree86-3.3.3 release and the NeoMagic support just isn't there yet. The AccelX is great! > 2) Sound controller was interesting to get working. The following line in > your config file should get it working tho: > > device pcm0 at isa ? port ? tty irq 5 drq 0 vector pcmintr > > Its a Crystal 4237b (which I thought was a PnP chip, but PnP probes find > nothign) according to Dell, but FreeBSD finds it as a ``SoundBlaster Pro 3.2''. I've been having a lot of trouble with the sound on mine. I seem to have the kernel configured and built properly. But I can't seem to get sound out to work, or rather, the only sound I get out of the speakers is what seems to be coming in over the microphone. It's as if what I am getting is just pass-through but I can't seem to get anything to play out of the speakers. Anyone got any clues on what I might look for on this sound thing? > It ships (or mine did, probably as options that the company specified) with a > Psion Dacom v.90 faxmodem (the ``Gold Card'') which seems to work (haven't > really tested it yet), and a ``Dell Fast Ethernet'' which is actually a 3com > CardBus 10/100 card (which doesn't work at all under FreeBSD as we have no > CardBus support). The Psion modem has worked great for me thus far. I've got no complaints at all. The fax portion has been very sketchy and I've had a lot of trouble with getting it to work with hylafax, but that's not too critical right now. > All in all, not bad if you don't have to pay for it :) Actually I did pay for main and I like it a lot ;-) but then I bought it because it had such a good track record in terms of handling abuse. Colin E. Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/ ". . .so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues." --Nick Hornby _High_Fidelity_ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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