From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 1 07:30:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA09588 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 07:30:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pretzel.ius.cs.cmu.edu (PRETZEL.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.180.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA09582 for ; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 07:30:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from farhana@cs.cmu.edu) Received: from localhost by pretzel.ius.cs.cmu.edu id aa26154; 1 Dec 98 10:29 EST Message-ID: <36640B52.3987C0C4@cs.cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 10:29:22 -0500 From: Farhana Kagalwala Organization: Carnegie Mellon University X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; U; IRIX 6.3 IP32) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: installing XF86 on a laptop Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I have a Dell Latitude Cpi laptop with a NeoMagic video chipset,and a PS/2 compatible touchpad. I am having some problems getting X configured properly to work with the internal screen and the touchpad. Is there someone who's tried this on this architecture and has been successful? I've tried setting up the mouse as a PS/2 mouse using the /dev/psm0, but when I try to run X (using xinit) I get a "Device is busy" message and X quits. I can manuever the mouse (though there's no use for it) while running FreeBSD and not running the X server. Is there another device I should be using instead of /dev/psm0, and/or another protocol? It seems the video driver is not supported and it defaults to a VGA16 driver. When I run X (without mouse support) I get a really low resolution screen (320x200) which makes it unworkable. I haven't been able to change this resolution though I tried manually changing the xf86config file. If the correct configuration is known for this chipset, that would save me some work! Thanks, -Farhana -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Farhana Kagalwala email: farhana@cs.cmu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message