Inspiron 7500 vs x.org server

[Julian Elischer]

Adding more to this.. x.org has this as bug 1109
It was erroneously linked as  a duplicate of 1881 which has 
been fixed, however that was a bug in the radeon driver and this 
is the ati driver.

If anyone knows what the Linux "vga=793" or (whatever it is)
kernel option does and whether there is somethign equivalent for freeBSD
that would be interesting.


> 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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