Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 17:41:00 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop newbie questions Message-ID: <199809210041.RAA01728@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 20 Sep 1998 17:15:31 PDT." <199809210015.RAA03051@bubba.whistle.com>
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> Hi, > Just got my hands on a new laptop at work, and am learning about > the laptop world and am full of questions.. :-) I've installed > 2.2.7-RELEASE plus the latest PAO snapshot. You can probably take the PAO code off; it's unlikely that you'll need it. > - In trying to set up X11 on this machine, nowhere in the specs are > the sync ranges for the LCD screen displayed. It's capable of 1024x768, > but that's about all I know about it... You shouldn't care; the LCD ought to be autodetected by the chipset driver. > IE, what does a typical "Monitor" section in XF86Config look like > for this type of LCD display? Just use XF86Setup; the driver ought to ignore the Monitor settings. > - Does the existing X11 S3V driver support the S3 Virge/MX+ 86c280 chip? > it's not explicitly listed.. are patches available or necessary? Ask the XFree86 folks, or get a copy of AcceleratedX (LX version). > - It has an ESS ES1968S PCI audio chip: > > pci0:16: vendor=0x125d, device=0x1968, > class=multimedia (audio) int a irq 5 [no driver assigned] > > Does Luigi's sound driver support this chip in this PCI version? > If so, what config file magic would make it work? No. If it's just the ISA version with a PCI interface, you might be able to write a shim like the other shims for PCI versions of ISA devices. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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