Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 08:52:59 -0500 From: The Babbler <bts@babbleon.org> To: Steve Jorgensen <steve@khoral.com> Cc: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com>, mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More laptop woes -- HP 4150 Message-ID: <3A8547BB.F3F96108@babbleon.org> References: <200102092304.QAA00721@benson.alb.khoral.com>
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Steve Jorgensen wrote: > > 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. Well, let's clarify something. This messing around is necessary only for the 1400x1050 display, right? 'Cause I have an i7500 with the 1280x1024 display, and I haven't had to mess around with it at all. In fact, my FreeBSD 3.6 under FreeBSD 4.2 was the smoothest & easiest X install I've ever done on any computer. (I moved up to FreeBSD 4.2 from Linux Mandrake 7.1.) > > 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 -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" bts@babbleon.org Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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