Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 14:23:53 -0700 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Steve Jorgensen <steve@khoral.com>, "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> Cc: Jan Knepper <jan@smartsoft.cc>, Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>, FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 5000/7500 Message-ID: <20001014142353.L1489@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200010032002.OAA00104@khoral.com>; from steve@khoral.com on Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 02:02:05PM -0600 References: <20001004080703.A4077@horton.iaces.com> <39DA0152.9CF3CDA7@smartsoft.cc> <200010032002.OAA00104@khoral.com>
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--5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tuesday, 3 October 2000 at 14:02:05 -0600, Steve Jorgensen wrote: > > 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: >>> >>> 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/ I don't have web access at the moment, but I suspect this refers to a problem with blanking under 3.3.6. I chose to upgrade to 4.0.1 on my Inspiron 7500. After a little bit of manual configuration, it works fine at 1400x1050. I'm attaching the XF86Config. > One thing you didn't ask about is sound. The 7500 sound is > not currently supported; however, it is being worked on. It works under -CURRENT, but the volume is a little low. I don't recall that I had to do any special configuration. pcm0: <ESS Technology Maestro-2E> port 0x1400-0x14ff irq 5 at device 8.0 on pci0 On Wednesday, 4 October 2000 at 8:07:03 -0500, Paul T. Root wrote: > On Tue, 03 Oct 2000 11:54:58 -0400, Jan Knepper <jan@smartsoft.cc> wrote: > > I have it running (4.1) on a 5000. It works pretty well. The internal > modem is a win modem, so it's useless. Newer versions of -CURRENT recognize the card: pci0: <Lucent K56Flex DSVD LTModem (Win Modem, unsupported)> at 16.0 irq 5 If you want support, you still need to write it, but at least you now know what it is :-) > I don't have a 3Com card with it. I deliberately didn't buy the card that comes with the machine. We still have difficulty with 100 MB/s PCMCIA Ethernet cards, so I bought a cheap 10 Mb/s clone instead. > I got sound working (only through the headphone jack - known > problem) with the beta code for that sound chip set. The -CURRENT code doesn't seem to have that problem. > I have only been able to get X to work, if I have an external > monitor! Very strange, it comes up on an external monitor then you > can hot swap to the built in. I don't get that. I think that's with > 3.3.6. I suspect that this is related to the blanking problem I mentioned above. > I have do have USB and PCCards working (16 bit not 32 bit CardBus). Right, we don't support CardBus yet. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=XF86Config Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "XFree86 Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" EndSection Section "Module" Load "extmod" Load "xie" Load "pex5" Load "glx" Load "dri" Load "GLcore" Load "dbe" Load "record" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "Monitor Model" ModeLine "1400x1050" 107.86 1400 1440 1552 1688 1050 1050 1053 1066 +hsync +vsync EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- #Option "accel" #Option "crt_screen" #Option "composite_sync" #Option "linear" #Option "mmio_cache" #Option "probe_clocks" #Option "shadow_fb" Identifier "Card0" Driver "ati" VendorName "ATI" BoardName "Mach64 LM" ChipSet "ati" ChipId 0x4c4d ChipRev 0x64 BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" EndSection --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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