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List:       openbsd-mobile
Subject:    RE: OpenBSD-mobile: OpenBSD 2.7 on an Dell Inspiron 5000
From:       Louis Bertrand <louis () bertrandtech ! on ! ca>
Date:       2000-06-30 13:48:20
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Once upon a time, being too damn cheap to buy a real monitor, I
recalculated a mode line for a non-standard resolution. I used a
spreadsheet to implement the algorithm I found on the Xfree86 site FAQ.
Took me an evening and didn't blow up the monitor. If you're interested I
can send you the spreadsheet (Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows).

Ciao
 --Louis  <louis@bertrandtech.on.ca> 

Louis Bertrand       http://www.bertrandtech.on.ca/
Bertrand Technical Services, Bowmanville, ON, Canada  
Tel: +1.905.623.1500  Fax: +1.905.623.3852

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On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Christian Edward Gruber wrote:

> Anyone have good luck with getting 1400x1050 resolution in XFree86?  My
> excursions into this have led to linux sites with a lot of "recompile X"
> type of help. <sigh>
> 
> regards,
> Christian.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: openbsd-mobile-owner@monkey.org
> [mailto:openbsd-mobile-owner@monkey.org]On Behalf Of Mark Allen
> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 6:24 PM
> To: Darren Evans
> Cc: openbsd-mobile@monkey.org
> Subject: Re: OpenBSD-mobile: OpenBSD 2.7 on an Dell Inspiron 5000
> 
> 
> Darren Evans wrote:
> >
> > Still awaiting my CDROM to arrive in the post but thought i'd
> > see what the consensus was.  Aparently the ESS Maestro 2
> > [sound]card is not supported natively by OpenBSD but is with
> > Opensound.
> >
> > Any tips/advice to save me some "head banging".
> 
> It's pretty "plug and play" for installation. The only tricky part is
> saving/resizing Windows. If you want to do that, then I'd advise you
> keep a calculator handy for making the disk label to calculate sector
> offsets.  My tests have shown that OBSD doesn't particularly like
> sharing its disk with other OSes.  But, I have Windows 98SE/2.7-current
> running in house on an "Inspiron" like system it just was more difficult
> to install than most Linux distros.
> 
> As far as the maestro sound driver is concerned, we're currently looking
> at funding an effort to port or reimplement the Linux Maestro 2E driver
> to FreeBSD. Once that work is done, it should be pretty easy to get it
> ported to OpenBSD too. If/until that work is done, Opensound is easy to
> install and works pretty well IMHO.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark
> 
> --
> Tuxtops: the Linux on Laptops company
> http://www.tuxtops.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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