From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Sep 1 4:34:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9843B14F71 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 04:31:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jose@we.lc.ehu.es) Received: from we.lc.ehu.es (garatu [158.227.6.222]) by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA14169; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 13:27:37 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <37CD0DA5.EBCE9B63@we.lc.ehu.es> Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 13:27:33 +0200 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" Organization: Universidad del =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pa=EDs?= Vasco - Dpto. de Electricidad y =?iso-8859-1?Q?Electr=F3nica?= X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: es-ES, es, en-US, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jay Kuri Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jay Kuri wrote: > > I have FreeBSD running on the Dell Inspiron I7k 15" display. > > It was an adventure, but it works fine. > > ... > > The current X server does not support the ATI Rage Mobility-P that the > Dell Inspiron 7000 uses. But I have hacked up the X11R6.4 Mach64 server > for use with this card. It seems to work fine. You can get the hacked-up > binary at: > Hello, I am considering the purchase of a Dell Inspiron 7000, and I am also worried about XFree86 and the ATI Rage LT. You said that the current version (3.3.3.1) does not support that chipset; however, the README for ATI cards says: Mach64 series: 88800GX-C, 88800GX-D, 88800GX-E, 88800GX-F, 88800CX, 264CT, 264ET, 264VT, 264GT (3D Rage), 264VT-B, 264VT3, 264VT4, 264GT-B (3D Rage II), 264GTIIc (3D Rage IIc), 264GT3 (3D Rage Pro), 264LT (3D Rage LT), 264LTPro (3D Rage LT Pro) The Inspiron 7000's specifications describe the video adapter as a "standard ATI Rage LT Pro", and also as a "ATI Rage Mobility-P". Are these adapters the same? If indeed they are, then, shouldn't they be directly supported by XFree86 3.3.3.1? Cheers, -- JMA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- José Mª Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del País Vasco | mailto:jmas@es.FreeBSD.ORG Dpto. de Electricidad y Electrónica | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-946012479 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-946013071 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Go ahead... make my day." - H. Callahan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message