From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 12 16: 6:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3567637B719 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:06:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from europax@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.12.186.185]) by femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010313000630.GUQO2254.femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:06:30 -0800 Message-ID: <3AAD6492.52D20CD@home.com> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:06:42 -0800 From: Rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kelly Hendrix Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron and Ati Rage Mobility References: <20010312125504.H2161@hnet04.kellyhendrix.com> <20010312121151.A26602@polands.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kelly, I found that on my laptop using the Rage Mobility chipset I was only able to get it working using the xf86config utility and specifying only the 1024x768 resolution for all color depths. Rob. Doug Poland wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:55:04PM -0500, Kelly Hendrix wrote: > > 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: > > > Kelly, > > This may (or may not) help. I had XFree86 3.whatever running > on the same adapter (compaq armada). If you like, I'll send > you my XF86Config. (4.1-RELEASE) > > -- > > Regards, > Doug > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message