Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 04:42:37 GMT From: Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.org> To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: painted myself into a corner.. Message-ID: <200501300442.j0U4gbWT077189@freefall.freebsd.org>
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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
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