From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 17 7:58:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BE0F37B4D7 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 07:58:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from proot@localhost) by iaces.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e9HEwXv40081; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 09:58:33 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 09:58:33 -0500 From: "Paul T. Root" To: Greg Lehey Cc: Steve Jorgensen , Jan Knepper , Kenneth Wayne Culver , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 5000/7500 Message-ID: <20001017095833.L35410@horton.iaces.com> References: <20001004080703.A4077@horton.iaces.com> <39DA0152.9CF3CDA7@smartsoft.cc> <200010032002.OAA00104@khoral.com> <20001014142353.L1489@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20001014142353.L1489@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 02:23:53PM -0700 X-Organization: Qwest - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 02:23:53PM -0700, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 3 October 2000 at 14:02:05 -0600, Steve Jorgensen wrote: > > > > I have Inspiron 7500, and am running FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE on it. > > It works like a charm. > > > > Jan Knepper wrote > >>> Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > >>> > >>> Did you get X to work at all? > > > > I've heard XF86 4.x works just fine. However, I'm using the > > XF86 3.3.6 server because 4 is still seems to be a bit unstable. > > The 3.3.6 server will work just fine 800x600. In order get the > > full 1400x1050 or other higher resolutions, you have to follow > > the directions at http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/ > > 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. Thanks! I installed 4.0.1 and works fine. > > 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. > > pcm0: port 0x1400-0x14ff irq 5 at device 8.0 on pci0 > > On Wednesday, 4 October 2000 at 8:07:03 -0500, Paul T. Root wrote: > > On Tue, 03 Oct 2000 11:54:58 -0400, Jan Knepper wrote: > > > > I have it running (4.1) on a 5000. It works pretty well. The internal > > modem is a win modem, so it's useless. > > Newer versions of -CURRENT recognize the card: > > pci0: at 16.0 irq 5 > > If you want support, you still need to write it, but at least you now > know what it is :-) That's cool. > > I don't have a 3Com card with it. > > I deliberately didn't buy the card that comes with the machine. We > still have difficulty with 100 MB/s PCMCIA Ethernet cards, so I bought > a cheap 10 Mb/s clone instead. > > > 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. My sound card code is a little old. I should upgrade it. I also have licenses for OSS, which I see that they have 4.x support now. I'm hesitent to go to current. I use this as a tool, I'm not a developer anymore. > > I have only been able to get X to work, if I have an external > > monitor! Very strange, it comes up on an external monitor then you > > can hot swap to the built in. I don't get that. I think that's with > > 3.3.6. > > I suspect that this is related to the blanking problem I mentioned > above. That's exactly what it was > > I have do have USB and PCCards working (16 bit not 32 bit CardBus). > > Right, we don't support CardBus yet. > > Greg > -- -- "A spy without gadgets is like a shopping cart without a broken wheel." -- Spy Fox To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message