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Re: NetBSD-current (4.99.60) on a Dell Latitude D610



On Friday 25. April 2008 05:58:30 M Graff wrote:
> Strange problems on this "new" laptop I have from work:
>
> I cannot seem to come up with a working XF86config file.  "xf86cfg"
> starts the X server, but it either powers off the LCD backlight, or just
> doesn't start up.
>
> Closing the lid causes the LCD backlight to go out, and opening it again
> does not cause it to come on again.  This is true under text mode.  It
> will never come on again without a reboot.
>
> Anyone else have one of these and have a fix?

What gfx card is in your laptop?
I used to have two dell laptops, D610 with nvidia and D420 with intel cards 
and both worked great.
I've Xorg config for D420 here: 
http://www.yazzy.org/configs/netbsd/xorg/xorg.conf-dell420



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