Re: Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400

[Jon Haugsand <jonhaug@ifi.uio.no>]

* Naitik Shah
> What graphics card are you using? Nvidia or ATI? Did you install the
> appropriate drivers? Did you change the driver setting in your
> XF86Config ? There's a dell laptop users mailing list on yahoo groups
> which is where I figured out how to get my inspiron to work. Go through
> their archives and files section, its useful stuff.

As a matter of fact, the RedHat Rawhide (aka version 9 beta) works
very well.  But I prefer Debian, and that is my problem.  

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Contr
oller] (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 00c8
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
        Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Memory at f4f80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
        Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 1

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]
        Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 00c8
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Memory at f4f00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
        Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 1


I'll try the mailing list.


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Jon Haugsand
  Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:jonhaug@ifi.uio.no
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