Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 09:37:57 +1000 From: Andrew Johns <A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Russell Morrison <morrison.2@osu.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron Laptops Message-ID: <3740A855.9A0981C9@TurnAround.com.au> References: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905171453300.15052-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White wrote: > > On Mon, 17 May 1999, Russell Morrison wrote: > > > Support, > > > > I am about to order 6 P366 Dell Inspiron laptops for our > > engineering group. My question is do you know if I can > > procure all the drivers needed for FreeBSD for this product > > line?(ie ATI 4MB Rage Pro 3D) I talked with Dell support and > > they informed me that they have not installed or tested > > FreeBSD on these laptops yet. > > There's XFree drivers for the ATI rage line; see http://www.xfree86.org. > > Doug White Unfortunately, I think that these laptops actually come with ATI Rage Pro 3D **LT** cards, which are *not* currently supported by XFree86 - the "standard" ones are, just not the LT versions - we have three of them here and whilst the XFree86 setup program works just fine in VGA mode, none of the other modes can be made to work - it runs but the display is not correct with some overlapping at the centre - and although I've tried several times, I have been unable to get the display to use the one detected by the setup program (not even when using it as plain VGA -> weird). No doubt, support for them in XFree86 will not be far away. Hopefully. :) HTH -- Regards | _/\_/\ Andrew Johns BSc (Comp Sci) | / \ TurnAround Solutions Pty Ltd | \_...__/ http://www.turnaround.com.au/ | \/ "The box said 'Requires Windows 98, NT, Linux or better' so I installed FreeBSD." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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