Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 20:56:50 +0000 (GMT) From: julian@FreeBSD.ORG (Julian Elischer) To: current@FreeBSD.org, julian@FreeBSD.org Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Inspiron 7500 vs x.org server Message-ID: <20050130205650.C370416A4CF@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200501300442.j0U4gbWT077189@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Adding more to this.. x.org has this as bug 1109 It was erroneously linked as a duplicate of 1881 which has been fixed, however that was a bug in the radeon driver and this is the ati driver. If anyone knows what the Linux "vga=793" or (whatever it is) kernel option does and whether there is somethign equivalent for freeBSD that would be interesting. > Ok, so hearing good things about the x.org server > and having seen it work elsewhere, I upgraded my laptop > from XFree86 to x.org today.. > all went fine.. > Except running it I just get a black screen. > no errors.. The Server thinks it's doing just fine.. > > ok, so I go to my wife's ibook and surf around a bit and discover > that this is known.. Dell Inspiron 7500 and x.org > have this problem. > > There is talk of a workaround in linux.. setting a kernel argument to > vga=753 or someothing similar, and there is one posting that talks about > a similar workaround for FreeBSD existing, but I have not been > able to find the workaround itself. Apparently this has been solved > somewhere as well, but I can't find any specific reference to what the fix > is/was. > > If anyone has a hint as to what the problem is (apparently some IBM > laptops have the same problem (they use the same Rage mobility-M chip). > > Looking forward to having X again... > > If anyone has a dell 7500 working with x,org, I'd love to get a copy > of your ati driver or a description of how you solved it.. > > T.I.A. > > Julian > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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