Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 11:01:03 PDT From: Darryl M Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> To: "Arun Welch" <welch@anzus.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, darrylo@soco.agilent.com Subject: Re: Inspiron 5000/7500 & X Message-ID: <200006201801.LAA10994@usmint.soco.agilent.com>
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Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> > Has anyone gotten X to work with the 15" 1400x1080 screen?
>
> Yes. Xig's Accelerated X/Laptop version works, and there are (nasty)
> hacks to make XFree86 work (much slower) as well.
The nasty hacks are only for XFree86 3.3.5. XFree86 4.0 works
fine, "out-of-the-box". The only caveats for 4.0 are:
* The setup command, "XFree86 -configure", doesn't work on the
Inspiron 7500 (don't know about the 5000). You have to write your
own XF86Config file.
* There are, supposedly, security issues with 4.0, as the server is
setuid root.
* As Mike said, the 4.0 server is slow (in fact, it's unaccelerated).
However, it should be adequately fast for most people. While the
XIG server is faster, I (personally) can't justify spending US$200
for speed that I don't really need.
--
Darryl Okahata
darrylo@soco.agilent.com
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