Re: Problems with X on Dell Inspiron 5100?

On Friday, 25 July 2003 at 12:20:50 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 04:30, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> Is anybody using X and -CURRENT on a Dell Inspiron 5100?  I've spent
>> the last couple of days trying to get the *(&*&* to work, and I'm
>> still having a lot of trouble.  X dies with a SIGSEGV:
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Somehow it looks as if FreeBSD isn't reading the Video BIOS parameters
>> correctly.  Has anybody seen this and done something about it?  I'll
>> continue playing around, but it would be nice to hear of some solution
>> close at hand.
>
> Can you send me your XF86Config?

OK, offline.  If anybody else wants to see it, it's no secret, just long.

> I got X working no problem on my 5150 yesterday, but I think we have
> slightly different Radeon cards.

Could be.  I don't see that this one has much to do with the
XF86Config: it's identical to the one which ran under Knoppix.

Greg
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