From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 6 17:37:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (pop3.polarbeargallery.com [208.240.196.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F8D037B4EC for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:36:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from wiegand.org [208.194.173.26] by pioneernet.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.05) id A76D107700A2; Tue, 06 Feb 2001 17:39:57 -0800 Message-ID: <3A80A75D.F27331AC@wiegand.org> Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 17:39:41 -0800 From: Chip X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Scheidt Cc: dan@langille.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: laptops - perhaps DELL References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Scheidt wrote: > > : > :I have 3 Dell Inspiron8000's at work, they were brought > :in for a particular Linux app. I have been unable to get > :X installed on the I-8000. I have tried every monitor > :choice on the list for Dell. We then bought a Acer 739 > > You're doing something wrong then. A cow-orker is running RedHat 7 on > a Dell Inspiron 8000, with no problems. Shall I ask how he's got X > configured for you? > > David > w I'd be interested to know what he picked on the screen where you have to pick a monitor. That is where I had the problem. I tried every Dell monitor listed, plus all the custom monitors, and none would work. Though it's probably a moot point now, as we are returning the Dell's and are buying Acer, have bought 4 this week, and about 10 more in a month or so. -- Chip Wiegand Alternative Operating Systems www.wiegand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message