Re: Best X configurator for laptops?
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 laptops, if any? --Paul Hoffman You need to be more specific about the problems you are encountering. What is the specific error you get when you try to launch X? What version of X are you running? I had an Inspiron 4000(?) running fine with X v3 a little over a year ago. The only specific I can remember is that I had to set the mouse protocol to BusMouse in order to get the touchpad to work properly. If you are using X version 4 you could try to generate a skeleton config file using `XFree86 -configure`. Nathan -- GPG Public Key ID: 0x4250A04C gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 4250A04C http://63.105.21.156/gpg_nkinkade_4250A04C.asc pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Best X configurator for laptops?
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 results for my system. Which of the other X configurators in the ports collection seem to do a good job on laptops, if any? You need to be more specific about the problems you are encountering. I was trying to avoid that because it doesn't seem like this is a good place to debug particular XWindows problems. But, since you asked, the screen comes up blank. There are no XWindows errors, just a blank screen. Can you exit the screen again with ctrl-alt-backspace? 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 version of XFree86 from the Ports Collection. Thus, my quest for a better configuration... You're jumping to conclusions that it's the configurator. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Best X configurator for laptops?
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 screen wrong, or a combination. I ended up cobbling it together from some advice for Linux, some other snippets and so on. In case anyone cares, the relevant hard parts of the XF86Config for (my/the) Inspiron 3500 are: Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 HorizSync31.5-48.5 VertRefresh 60 EndSection Section Device Identifier Card0 Driver neomagic VendorName Neomagic BoardName NM2200 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 MonitorMonitor0 DefaultDepth 16 SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes1024x768 EndSubSection EndSection ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best X configurator for laptops?
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 version of XFree86 from the Ports Collection. Well, I have a SONY Vaio laptop running XF 4.3.0 (and 4.2.1 before). I both time had to modify the config file to insert VertRefresh and HorizSync and also a modeline. Otherwise I would a 640x480 screen. -- Pierrick Brossin IT Swiss - QUARK Media House 6a Puits Godet, 2000 Neuchatel, Switzerland Mail Prof: pbrossin_AT_quark.ch Mail Priv: admin_AT_swissgeeks.com * Website: http://www.swissgeeks.com * ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
