Best X configurator for laptops?

2003-03-30 Thread Paul Hoffman
Hi again. I have a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop, now running 4.7. xf86cfg and xf86config both give (different) unusable results for my system. Which of the other X configurators in the ports collection seem to do a good job on laptops, if any? --Paul Hoffman

Re: Best X configurator for laptops?

2003-03-30 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 07:59:59AM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: Hi again. I have a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop, now running 4.7. xf86cfg and xf86config both give (different) unusable results for my system. Which of the other X configurators in the ports collection seem to do a good job on

Re: Best X configurator for laptops?

2003-03-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 30 March 2003 at 8:44:34 -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: At 8:29 AM -0800 3/30/03, Nathan Kinkade wrote: On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 07:59:59AM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: Hi again. I have a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop, now running 4.7. xf86cfg and xf86config both give (different) unusable

Re: Best X configurator for laptops?

2003-03-30 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 9:43 AM +0930 3/31/03, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Thus, my quest for a better configuration... You're jumping to conclusions that it's the configurator. Turns out I wasn't. None of the configuration programs got me anywhere close. They either got the monitor wrong, the card wrong, the

Re: Best X configurator for laptops?

2003-03-30 Thread Pierrick Brossin
Quoting Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There were some problems with certain chip sets a while back. When I got my Inspiron 7500, I had the same problem (well, as far as you describe it). They needed to update XFree86 to fix it. You might find it a good idea to install the latest