Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:44:00 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: Dell Inspiron 5000e vs. Chembook 3015A vs. Compal N38W2 (N30 Message-ID: <XFMail.010221144400.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200102212029.f1LKTA008941@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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On 21-Feb-01 David Wolfskill wrote: > This is rather long, and is a query about features, vs. a report of a > problem or solution to same. So if this doesn't interest you (at this > time), you might want to just go on to whatever's next in your queue. I am running -current on a 5000e and X 4.0.2 will work at 1600x1200 with no problems. For 4.0.2 at least, you have to lie to X in XF86Config to get it to setup the screen properly (set bogus horiz and vert refresh rates), but I think they just fixed that in the latest X-cvs, and I will be rebuilding X and testing that in a bit. I do have the Rage128 with 16MB of RAM, FWIW, and X is running on it at 24bpp. Other quirks on the 5000e: APM won't work cause the BIOS is busted. In -current the volume buttons for the sound card will work though, and the sound will work in both -stable and -current. Cardbus doesn't work in current due to a PCI resource allocation bug, but regular old pccard works ok under both OLDCARD and NEWCARD. I haven't played with the touchpad as far as remapping buttons, so I'm not sure if that will be a problem for you. If you want to run -current, then you can run ACPI on the 5000e to get some things like battery status and temperature reporting (with some patches I hope to commit soon) and also things like the power button turning the machine off after performing a clean shutdown, etc. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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