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From: Josef El-Rayes <j.el-rayes@daemon.li>
Reply-To: Josef El-Rayes <j.el-rayes@daemon.li>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
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Subject: [patch] articles/laptop: add useful ressources
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>Number:         55955
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [patch] articles/laptop: add useful ressources
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Aug 25 05:30:12 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:    Tue Aug 26 00:43:02 PDT 2003
>Last-Modified:  Tue Aug 26 00:43:02 PDT 2003
>Originator:     Josef El-Rayes
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD daemon.li 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #8: Tue Jul 22 18:16:23 CEST 2003 root@daemon.li:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM i386


	
>Description:
		doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/laptop/article.sgml:
		1) added link to freebsd-mobile mailinglist which is
		an important ressource for freebsd on laptops

		2) added link to xfree86 driver status page to give
		a good ressource for checking available support of video
		cards.
	
>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix:

	

--- article.sgml.diff begins here ---
--- article.sgml.orig	Mon Aug 25 13:53:00 2003
+++ article.sgml	Mon Aug 25 14:27:39 2003
@@ -47,6 +47,10 @@
       <ulink url="http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/">The &os;
       Laptop Compatibility List</ulink>.</para>
 
+      <para>For communications with other &os; laptop users, check out
+      the <ulink url="http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile">
+      freebsd-mobile mailing list</ulink>.</para>
+
   <sect1>    
     <title>XFree86</title>
       
@@ -55,8 +59,9 @@
       supported, but a generic SVGA configuration should work.</para>
 
     <para>Check your laptop documentation for which card you have,
-      and check in the <application>XFree86</application> documentation (or setup program) 
-      to see whether it is specifically supported.  If it is not, use
+      and check in the <application>XFree86</application> documentation or the 
+      <ulink url="http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status.html">Driver Status for XFree86[tm] 4.3.0</ulink>
+      website, to see whether it is specifically supported. If it is not, use
       a generic device (do not go for a name which just looks
       similar).  In <application>XFree86</application> version 4, you can try your luck
       with the command <userinput>XFree86 -configure</userinput>
--- article.sgml.diff ends here ---


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: blackend 
State-Changed-When: Tue Aug 26 00:40:02 PDT 2003 
State-Changed-Why:  
I committed a different version of your patch: 

- I used mailing list entity instead of the ulink scheme 
- For the link to the XFree86 Driver Status page, I removed the version 
number, it will avoid multiple updates in future. 

Thanks. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=55955 
>Unformatted:
