Greg - yeah, I did turn this site up on my travels. I'm not much of a coder, do you suppose for the time being I could get a diff vs. the X source that you used? Also, I'd be happy to test anything anyone comes up with in the future. On a related note, has anyone had any luck getting the touchpad to fire up? Every time I've booted I've had a USB mouse connected without problem, but the touchpad dosn't detect at all. Kernel does include psm support. Thanks much ~j Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 29 January 2004 at 17:01:44 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > >>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. > > > The problem I had, which may no longer exist, was that the video BIOS > was not all mapped (specifically, the last 16 kB were not mapped). > The X server accesses this area at startup to get information about > the display, so it fails. My solution was to compile the video BIOS > into the X server, agreed a very nasty workaround. See > http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-jul2003.html#25 for more details. The > correct answer, of course, is to find out why this area isn't being > mapped. FWIW, Knoppix Linux works fine. > > 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. -- Jonathan T. Sage Theatrical Lighting / Set Designer Professional Web Design [HTTP://www.JTSage.com] [sagejona_at_theatre.msu.edu] [See Headers for Contact Info]
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