From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Feb 25 13:36: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6711A37B884 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 13:35:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA15703; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 14:02:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 14:02:54 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Darryl Okahata Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xvtykludge error (ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl for device) Message-ID: <20000225140254.H21720@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000225114114.B21720@fw.wintelcom.net> <200002252049.MAA19204@mina.sr.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200002252049.MAA19204@mina.sr.hp.com>; from darrylo@sr.hp.com on Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 12:49:23PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Darryl Okahata [000225 13:19] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein 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