From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 30 04:42:37 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9F0A16A4D0 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 04:42:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B625243D3F for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 04:42:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (julian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j0U4gbl5077190 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 04:42:37 GMT (envelope-from julian@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from julian@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j0U4gbWT077189 for current; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 04:42:37 GMT (envelope-from julian) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 04:42:37 GMT From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <200501300442.j0U4gbWT077189@freefall.freebsd.org> To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: painted myself into a corner.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 04:42:38 -0000 Ok, so hearing good things about the x.org server and having seen it work elsewhere, I upgraded my laptop from XFree86 to x.org today.. all went fine.. Except running it I just get a black screen. no errors.. The Server thinks it's doing just fine.. ok, so I go to my wife's ibook and surf around a bit and discover that this is known.. Dell Inspiron 7500 and x.org have this problem. There is talk of a workaround in linux.. setting a kernel argument to vga=753 or someothing similar, and there is one posting that talks about a similar workaround for FreeBSD existing, but I have not been able to find the workaround itself. Apparently this has been solved somewhere as well, but I can't find any specific reference to what the fix is/was. If anyone has a hint as to what the problem is (apparently some IBM laptops have the same problem (they use the same Rage mobility-M chip). Looking forward to having X again... If anyone has a dell 7500 working with x,org, I'd love to get a copy of your ati driver or a description of how you solved it.. T.I.A. Julian