From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 3 14:13:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from khoral.com (charon.khoral.com [209.75.155.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C13EF37B502 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 14:13:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from benson.alb.khoral.com (benson.alb.khoral.com [10.1.2.11]) by khoral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA15894; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 14:02:46 -0600 (MDT) From: Steve Jorgensen Message-Id: <200010032002.OAA00104@khoral.com> Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 5000/7500 To: jan@smartsoft.cc (Jan Knepper) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 14:02:05 -0600 (MDT) Cc: culverk@wam.umd.edu (Kenneth Wayne Culver), FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) In-Reply-To: <39DA0152.9CF3CDA7@smartsoft.cc> from "Jan Knepper" at Oct 03, 2000 11:54:58 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: >> >> > I installed it on an inspiron 3800, I don't know about the modem, but >> > there is no cardbus support for the 3com ethernet that comes with it, >> > There is support in the works though as far as I know. >> >> OK, fair enough. Don't think I would need the 3Com ethernet that bad to >> begin with. You can get pccard 3com ethernet cards that work just fine. I don't know about the internal modem, I opt'ed for the gold pcmcia card Dell offers. However, I have yet to try even to set it up, (I don't even know if it's a cardbus or pccard :) as I hardly ever dial up anywhere. I do know pccards are still available for both ethernet and modems that are supported and will work fine. >> >> 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/ It gives instructions for Linux, but they are easily adapted to the freebsd port of XFree86. I followed the compile instructions under method 1 doing the following: (Keep in mind I'm stating this from memory from two months ago, so it may need some tweaking. :) % cd /usr/ports/XFree86 % make extract < apply source patch as specified in the Method 1 set of instructions. the trick here is finding the actual source file to apply it to > % make install Install the XF86Config file specified in the Method 1 set of instructions, and create the X symbolic link, and you should be good to go. One thing you didn't ask about is sound. The 7500 sound is not currently supported; however, it is being worked on. There is a preliminary version of the free driver available (search the archives for more info). Your other option is to spend $30 on the OSS commercial driver (www.opensound.com). Hope this helps. Steve -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Steven Jorgensen steve@khoral.com steve@spukhaus.com ------------------------------+---------------------------- Khoral Research Inc. | PHONE: (505) 837-6500 6200 Uptown Blvd, Suite 200 | FAX: (505) 881-3842 Albuquerque, NM 87110 | URL: http://www.khoral.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message