I actually hacked an existing util for NetBSD to run flawlessly on
OpenBSD (I have a Dell inspiron 700m).
You can get it here:
http://lysergik.com/~tony/openbsd.phtml
Baldur Sigurpsson wrote:
hi
use this thing:
http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/i855vidctl/
just remember to put the command in /etc/rc.securelevel because on
openbsd you cannot access some devices you need to, in contrast to linux.
works on my dell inspiron 500m with the 855GM crap:)
Regards, Baldur
Uwe Dippel wrote:
... a continuation of around a year ago
('Warning: Possible Bug in BIOS DELL Latitude D400_A06 !')
It is still valid for 3.7.
In the meantime, the problem has turned out to be really a problem of
crappy DELL BIOSes; now at A08 it still does the same:
Any activation of X freezes the machine completely with a yellowish
screen.
855wrap on http://www.chzsoft.com.ar/855patch.html solves this. On Linux.
There you compile a binary and run it before starting X. On any machine.
Now I tried to do the same on OpenBSD with the expected result:'Abort
trap'.
Not quite so expected was, that the source didn't want to compile on
OpenBSD 3.7:
make: don't know how to make %.c.
Stop in ......
I bet quite a few newer DELL notebooks are affected; and I appreciate any
suggestion how to make it work on OpenBSD.
I read the archives here and googled. No result.
Uwe
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