Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 14:02:54 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xvtykludge error (ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl for device) Message-ID: <20000225140254.H21720@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200002252049.MAA19204@mina.sr.hp.com>; from darrylo@sr.hp.com on Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 12:49:23PM -0800 References: <20000225114114.B21720@fw.wintelcom.net> <200002252049.MAA19204@mina.sr.hp.com>
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* Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> [000225 13:19] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> wrote: > > > I've been on most of the lists for about two years and never saw this > > program mentioned nor what problem it's supposed to solve, perhaps you > > [ Don't worry, it was trivial to miss. ] > > The problem is that XFree86 doesn't work with the ATI Mobility-P > video chipset used in the Dell Inspiron 7500. A couple of months back, > I posted a pointer (in freebsd-mobile) to a kludgy workaround (which > includes/uses a program called "xvtykludge"), and it appears that Mikel > is trying to use it. > > [ Yes, I know that XFree86 3.3.6 is supposed to work with the > Mobility-P, but 3.3.6 still doesn't work on the 7500. I don't know > about the latest 4.0 betas, though. ] You still really haven't given us a pointer to the program. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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