Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 16:04:50 -0700 (MST) From: Steve Jorgensen <steve@khoral.com> To: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More laptop woes -- HP 4150 Message-ID: <200102092304.QAA00721@benson.alb.khoral.com> In-Reply-To: <200102092244.OAA11806@kithrup.com> from "Sean Eric Fagan" at Feb 09, 2001 02:44:08 PM
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Sean Eric Fagan wrote >> My (hopefully temporary, unless this can get cleared up) replacement laptop >> is a slightly different model -- an HP OmniBook 4150, instead of the 4100. >> The major difference that I can see is that it uses an ATI Rage Mobility >> graphics chip, instead of the NeoMagic chip the 4100 used. >> >> XFree86 claims to support it, and I've seen people reporting successes with >> Linux, but not with FreeBSD. Under FreeBSD, XF86Setup gives me what someone >> else described as "doubel vision" -- the congratulatory dialog box that >> XF86Setup puts up looks something like: >> >> [ Sa [ Save and exit ] ave and exit ] >> >> I can't figure out how to make it come up properly, in any resolution or >> pixel depth. Right now, I'm using the SVGA driver, which, quite frankly, >> sucks ;). (Scrolling in a large xterm is really horrible.) >> >> Anyone have any ideas? It looks like lots of Dell's use the same chip. Which version of XFree86 are you trying? I'm using XFree86 3.x. On my Inspiron 7500, I found instructions at http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/ to recompile XFree86 3.x. Then I did a make extract on the /usr/ports version of XFree86 3.x, applied the patch they suggested, and continued the compile of the port. Then it was just matter of grabbing the XF86config file the above pages provide, and X worked fine. I have heard that XFree86 4.x supports the ATI Rage Mobility correctly without all this messing around, so you probably can just compile that and run the standard setup utility. I've never tried it though, so I don't really know. Hope this helps. Steve -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Steven Jorgensen steve@khoral.com steve@spukhaus.com ------------------------------+---------------------------- Khoral Inc. | PHONE: (505) 837-6500 6200 Uptown Blvd, Suite 200 | FAX: (505) 881-3842 Albuquerque, NM 87110 | URL: http://www.khoral.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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