Dell Latitude E6520 Xorg Problems

[Dean E. Weimer]

Success X is running after some more playing to verify what works and doesn't I will post back with full config, FYI I did have to re-enable Optimus after rebuilding with KMS.

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On Jul 18, 2013, at 9:04 AM, "Dean E. Weimer" <dweimer at dweimer.net> wrote:

> I have only gone as far as scanning wifi and it did find all the ssids I expected.  System is now recompiling the xorg ports with new kernel and world in place.
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Jul 18, 2013, at 8:50 AM, OpenSlate ChalkDust <openslateproj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I am interested in your solution as I plan to more from my old desktop to a notebook, most likely the same Dell you have.
>> 
>> Have you gotten as far as WiFi? Dell has a bad reputation for network drivers, especially WiFi.
>> 
>> On Jul 18, 2013 3:41 AM, "Dean E. Weimer" <dweimer at dweimer.net> wrote:
>>> Oops stupid iPAD spell correct Kim's = KMS.
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>>> Sent from my iPad
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>>> On Jul 18, 2013, at 8:38 AM, "Dean E. Weimer" <dweimer at dweimer.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Nope, but perhaps I found some information, that has me in going in the right direction, this has an integrated intel video card with the core i7, in process of rebuilding world and kernel with Kim's and xorg_new set in make.conf.
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>>>> Sent from my iPad
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>>>> On Jul 18, 2013, at 8:12 AM, OpenSlate ChalkDust <openslateproj at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>> Does it work with the lid open and no additional monitor attached?
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:43 AM, dweimer <dweimer at dweimer.net> wrote:
>>>>>> Is anyone out there running FreeBSD on a Dell Latitude E6520?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I am struggling to Xorg to start, doing the Xorg -configure I get "number of created screens does not match number of detected devices" I have tried with an external monitor attached and laptop closed, with external monitor attached and laptop open, and with no external monitor.  All same results, I did remember to disable the Optimus feature in the bios, even tried enabling it, no change.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>  Dean E. Weimer
>>>>>>  http://www.dweimer.net/
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>>>>> --
>>>>> Gary Dunn
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