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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:42:35 -0500
From:      Bob Johnson <bobj@ufl.edu>
To:        kelly@compuage.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dell Inspiron and Ati Rage Mobility
Message-ID:  <3AAD42CB.3019DB11@ufl.edu>

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> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 12:55:04 -0500
> From: Kelly Hendrix <kelly@compuage.com>
> Subject: Dell Inspiron and Ati Rage Mobility
>

You might find useful info at
http://www.afn.org/~afn01750/inspiron.html

It's for XFree86 3.x, and the Inspiron 7500 which uses the ATI 
Rage Mobility P, but it might have useful clues.

- Bob

> Greetings
> 
> I've managed to install FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE on my Inspiron 8000 laptop
> with few problems, but I'm having trouble with X-Windows.  According to
> some of the archives I've read, XFree86 4.0.2 supports the Ati Rage
> Mobility with the ati driver.  I've also tried the radeon, r128, and
> atimisc drivers with no success.  I can get the vga driver to work, but
> the resolution is so large, I personally find it unusable.  With all the
> drivers above, X probes the card and finds it to be an Ati Rage 128
> Mobility MF rev 0.  Dmesg says it's an ATI model 4d46.  Anyway, X fails
> to open with:
>         
>         (EE) No devices detected.
> 
>         Fatal server error:
>         no screens found
> 
> I've included the relevant sections of my XF86Config file in case anyone
> would like to look it over.  If someone could point me to or send a
> working XF86Config, that would be great.
> 
> TIA

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