From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 30 16:13:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2996837B401 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 16:13:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32E3343F3F for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 16:13:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 921DE51A6F; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 09:43:20 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 09:43:20 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Paul Hoffman Message-ID: <20030331001320.GD3228@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030330162923.GL82863@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="hxkXGo8AKqTJ+9QI" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: nkinkade@fastmail.fm cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best X configurator for laptops? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 00:13:27 -0000 --hxkXGo8AKqTJ+9QI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday, 30 March 2003 at 8:44:34 -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: > At 8:29 AM -0800 3/30/03, Nathan Kinkade wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 07:59:59AM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: >>> Hi again. I have a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop, now running 4.7. >>> xf86cfg and xf86config both give (different) unusable results for my >>> system. Which of the other X configurators in the ports collection >>> seem to do a good job on laptops, if any? >> >> You need to be more specific about the problems you are encountering. > > I was trying to avoid that because it doesn't seem like this is a > good place to debug particular XWindows problems. > > But, since you asked, the screen comes up blank. There are no > XWindows errors, just a blank screen. Can you exit the screen again with ctrl-alt-backspace? There were some problems with certain chip sets a while back. When I got my Inspiron 7500, I had the same problem (well, as far as you describe it). They needed to update XFree86 to fix it. You might find it a good idea to install the latest version of XFree86 from the Ports Collection. > Thus, my quest for a better configuration... You're jumping to conclusions that it's the configurator. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --hxkXGo8AKqTJ+9QI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+h4ggIubykFB6QiMRAlYEAJ4zIn6KL7eae+T5/dbe5vxdwOKXjACfT3Pb fVkCG4CGFlIuOExWBJ5xRPg= =yOCB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hxkXGo8AKqTJ+9QI--