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.
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