From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jul 22 12:49:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F377837B400 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 12:49:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail19a.dulles19-verio.com (mail19a.dulles19-verio.com [161.58.134.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B0D343E65 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 12:49:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rob@pythonemproject.com) Received: from www.pythonemproject.com (198.104.176.109) by mail19a.dulles19-verio.com (RS ver 1.0.63s) with SMTP id 0160375561; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 15:47:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D3C612F.63174259@pythonemproject.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 12:46:55 -0700 From: rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Kukulies Cc: Joe Marcus Clarke , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X11, Nvidia, Geforce 2 Go, Dell Inspiron 8000 References: <200207212045.WAA20360@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <1027308794.319.13.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> <20020722081607.B22472@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Loop-Detect: 1 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 11:33:11PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 16:45, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > I did another try to get XFree86-4 in 1600x1200 working on > > > my Dell Inspiron 8000 with Geforce 2 Go Nvidia. > > > > > > I chose to use the XFree-4 nv driver patch and not the > > > Linux driver from the Nvidia site. Maybe I will do it as a > > > next step after I have discussed the following points: > > > > > > > > > 1. I did a make patch, > > > untared nv.tar.gz in /usr/ports/x11-servers/XFree-4-server/work > > > and built / installed the thing. With a sample XF86Config > > > I was amazed to see the 1600x1200 screen with twm windows > > > populated when doing a startx first time. > > > > > > 2. I could not get my touchpad or attached PS/2 mouse > > > working. What is the trick? > > > > The sample XF86Config at http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/XF86Config > > works on my 8100 for my trackpad and my eraser head. Make sure you have > > moused running on the system first, and that your protocol in your > > XF86Config is set to Auto. > > > > I run moused with the -3 flag out of rc.conf. > > Ah, thanks. Forgot about moused . > > -- > Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies@rwth-aachen.de > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message I was looking at the latest Dells. Isn't the 8000 the one that has up to 2Ghz mobile P4 + DDR memory? I'm wondering if this is a good choice for FreeBSD? Thanks, Rob. -- ----------------------------- The Numeric Python EM Project www.pythonemproject.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message