From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 1 12:11:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA26095 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 12:11:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA26089; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 12:11:48 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199611012011.MAA26089@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dell Laptop To: mgessner@aristar.com (Matthew A. Gessner) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 12:11:48 -0800 (PST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, hardware@FreeBSD.org, mobile@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <327A4F2C.2781E494@aristar.com> from "Matthew A. Gessner" at Nov 1, 96 02:27:40 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Matthew A. Gessner wrote: > > Hi, all, > > Hopefully someone's had a little experience with this: > > I have a Dell Latitude laptop, w/ 16MB RAM. > > I want to get X up and running. > > Has anyone done this? yes, had a dell latitude 4100 or something worked great once i got X running > > Should I contact the folks at XFree86?? yes, it is the x server that needs to be modified. the chip was fully backwards compatible with the ones that XFree86 supported, i just added to the case statement and recompiled the X server (quick hack) jmb -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/ PGP 2.6.2 Fingerprint: 31 57 41 56 06 C1 40 13 C5 1C E3 E5 DC 62 0E FB