From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 17 16:37:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (webbsd1.turnaround.com.au [203.39.138.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74E841540E for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 16:37:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au) Received: from TurnAround.com.au (dhcp64.turnaround.com.au [192.168.1.64]) by WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA27787; Tue, 18 May 1999 09:50:00 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au) Message-ID: <3740A855.9A0981C9@TurnAround.com.au> Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 09:37:57 +1000 From: Andrew Johns Organization: TurnAround Solutions P/L X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White Cc: Russell Morrison , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron Laptops References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote: > > On Mon, 17 May 1999, Russell Morrison wrote: > > > Support, > > > > I am about to order 6 P366 Dell Inspiron laptops for our > > engineering group. My question is do you know if I can > > procure all the drivers needed for FreeBSD for this product > > line?(ie ATI 4MB Rage Pro 3D) I talked with Dell support and > > they informed me that they have not installed or tested > > FreeBSD on these laptops yet. > > There's XFree drivers for the ATI rage line; see http://www.xfree86.org. > > Doug White Unfortunately, I think that these laptops actually come with ATI Rage Pro 3D **LT** cards, which are *not* currently supported by XFree86 - the "standard" ones are, just not the LT versions - we have three of them here and whilst the XFree86 setup program works just fine in VGA mode, none of the other modes can be made to work - it runs but the display is not correct with some overlapping at the centre - and although I've tried several times, I have been unable to get the display to use the one detected by the setup program (not even when using it as plain VGA -> weird). No doubt, support for them in XFree86 will not be far away. Hopefully. :) HTH -- Regards | _/\_/\ Andrew Johns BSc (Comp Sci) | / \ TurnAround Solutions Pty Ltd | \_...__/ http://www.turnaround.com.au/ | \/ "The box said 'Requires Windows 98, NT, Linux or better' so I installed FreeBSD." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message