From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 9 16:30:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA09509 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 16:30:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA09503 for ; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 16:30:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA07914; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:59:44 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id IAA12995; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:59:44 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980810085944.V11095@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:59:44 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "user.unknown" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Dell laptop, NeoMagic chipset (was: X on a laptop) References: <35CE2594.8E5380BA@prodigy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <35CE2594.8E5380BA@prodigy.net>; from user.unknown on Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 06:41:25PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 9 August 1998 at 18:41:25 -0400, user.unknown wrote: It would be nice to know your name. > I want to run X on a laptop (Dell lattitude CP w/ neomagic) but can't > seem to get it to start. I can't afford a commercial server/drivers > either. If anyone has gotten X to run on a laptop, please hook me up > with the info/files. This isn't a generic problem. NeoMagic refused to divulge programming information for their chip sets, so the XFree86 project couldn't write a driver for it. Others have. Check out http://www.mnsinc.com/js/Neomagic.html. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message