Re: 5.2 and Dell Inspiron 5100

From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus_at_marcuscom.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:01:44 -0500
On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 16:53, Jonathan T. Sage wrote:
> Hello - recently purchased a dell inspiron 5100.  Out of the box, 5.2 
> installed wonderfully.  More than wonderfully.  The only issue I ran 
> into was with X. I am unable to use X with agp support compiled into the 
> kernel. While this is a perfectly acceptable workaround, I was curious 
> if there is a fix for this issue (DRI/DRM would be great sometime down 
> the road).  If not, and me not being a coder, what information might I 
> be able to provide that would help the process along in getting this 
> card to work properly "out-of-the-box".
> 
> Any infortmation would be fantastic

Search the archives on freebsd-mobile for answers to this.  Greg Lehey
has done some extensive work on this issue, and has an even nastier
workaround.

Joe

> 
> thanks ~j
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