Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 14:02:05 -0600 (MDT) From: Steve Jorgensen <steve@khoral.com> To: jan@smartsoft.cc (Jan Knepper) Cc: culverk@wam.umd.edu (Kenneth Wayne Culver), FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 5000/7500 Message-ID: <200010032002.OAA00104@khoral.com> In-Reply-To: <39DA0152.9CF3CDA7@smartsoft.cc> from "Jan Knepper" at Oct 03, 2000 11:54:58 AM
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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
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