Thinkpad i1300 X setup woes

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 22:24:26 -0700
> From: Karl Agee <kdagee at owt.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
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> Having more woes trying to get X setup on a Thinkpad i1300.  To recap:
> 
> chip:  silicon motion lynxEM+
> memory:  2 mb (according to win98se)
> Display:  800x600 hpa
> 
> System:  FreeBSD 4.8-Release
> 
> Have not been able to get X configured.  The same laptop runs X in Knoppix, 
> Red Hat 9, Suse 8.2, and now Debian Woody just_fine.  In fact, I just 
> installed Woody in a fit of insanity and I didnt have to mess with 
> anything, just used debconf--asked me what chip I had and display 
> characteristics (nothing about frequencies) and when I executed "startx" I 
> got a nice 8 bit kde desktop.
> 
> Now, I have noted that the XF86Config file is in ver 3.x format, not the -4 
> format.  And Freebsd is running XFree86 4.3.0.  I dont know if the tools in 
> use are old, or what the problem is.

"debconf"? I'm not familiar with that. I would suggest starting with
"XFree86 -configure". That will generally produce a functional, if not
optimal configuration.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634