[3494] in Release_7.7_team
Getting X to work on Dell Lattitude C840 needs X server released
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Fri Sep 13 19:39:55 2002
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@mit.edu
Cc: owls@mit.edu, kathleen@mit.edu
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Date: 13 Sep 2002 19:39:53 -0400
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I was just swimming around in the XFree86 source tree trying to answer
the musical question, "Can this Dell be made to work?".
Here's the deal:
Perhaps the new Lattitude C840 has an ATI chip set, but the C840 I have
here has a "NVIDIA GForce2 Go" video. The X server appropriate to that
product line is the "nv" X server from XFree86. The manual page for nv
corresponding to the version of X we've installed from Red Hat
specifically says:
SUPPORTED HARDWARE
The nv driver supports PCI and AGP video cards based on
the following NVIDIA chips:
...
GeForce2, QUADRO2 NV11 & NV15 (except GeForce2 Go,
which is NOT supported)
As I said, I was swimming around in the source code. An internal CVS
log entry made on February 6, 2002 announces, " GeForce2 Go should work
now (works for me)."
Apparently the first public release of that merge of the code occurred
YESTERDAY:
XFree86 4.2.1 release available
[12 September 2002]
4.2.1 is a minor revision of the full 4.2.0 release which must be
installed first.
The latest software update mentioned on the Red Hat web site is 9
September, so they've not had a chance to even think about offering this
rev of the server.
-wdc
