painted myself into a corner..

From: Julian Elischer (julian_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 01/30/05

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    Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 04:42:37 GMT
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    Ok, so hearing good things about the x.org server
    and having seen it work elsewhere, I upgraded my laptop
    from XFree86 to x.org today..
    all went fine..
    Except running it I just get a black screen.
    no errors.. The Server thinks it's doing just fine..

    ok, so I go to my wife's ibook and surf around a bit and discover
    that this is known.. Dell Inspiron 7500 and x.org
    have this problem.

    There is talk of a workaround in linux.. setting a kernel argument to
    vga=753 or someothing similar, and there is one posting that talks about
    a similar workaround for FreeBSD existing, but I have not been
    able to find the workaround itself. Apparently this has been solved
    somewhere as well, but I can't find any specific reference to what the fix
    is/was.

    If anyone has a hint as to what the problem is (apparently some IBM
    laptops have the same problem (they use the same Rage mobility-M chip).

    Looking forward to having X again...

    If anyone has a dell 7500 working with x,org, I'd love to get a copy
    of your ati driver or a description of how you solved it..

    T.I.A.

    Julian

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