Fwd: Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

[Karl Agee]

>Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:15:57 -0700
>To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog at FreeBSD.org>
>From: Karl Agee <kdagee at owt.com>
>Subject: Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?
>
>Hi Greg and all:
>
>Laptop:  Thinkpad iSeries 1300
>Video:  Silicon Motion LynxEM+ chip
>Screen:  800x600 hpa
>
>system:  FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE
>
>Only the vga driver works, and not very well.  Gives me only a 640x480 
>display and the windows etc are not displayed properly (too large for the 
>display).  This setup was configured using either xf86config or xf86cfg 
>-textmode.  Using the "autodetect" selection froze the display, as does 
>trying to setup manually using the above and the silicon motion 
>driver.  Killing X server doesnt work, have to reboot the machine.
>
>This notebook works fine with suse 8.1, Red Hat 9, Knoppix 3.1, etc.
>
>I did notice the XF86Config file is the old XFree 3.x series format, 
>apparently not the newer series 4.x format.  (dont know if that is 
>significant).
>
>--karl
>
>At 11:10 AM 7/27/2003 +0930, you wrote:
>
>>On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 21:47:23 -0700, Karl Agee wrote:
>> > I am having problems getting X set up properly on a laptop.  Should
>> > I post the question here or on the mobile list?
>>
>>Start here, but give some details.  If this is a Dell Inspiron 5100,
>>I'm working on it.
>>
>>Greg
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