From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 17 21:07:41 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60F5316A4CE for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 21:07:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0E2643DBF for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 21:07:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) j4HL7Y0D031413; Tue, 17 May 2005 23:07:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A5BAB627F; Tue, 17 May 2005 23:07:34 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 23:07:34 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Adam Stern Message-ID: <20050517210734.GB1555@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Adam Stern , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="QTprm0S8XgL7H0Dt" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video Driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 21:07:41 -0000 --QTprm0S8XgL7H0Dt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 02:14:46PM -0400, Adam Stern wrote: > I'm kind of new to freebsd. I'm using Gnome, and the resolution doesn't > go above 600x800. I assume that is because it doesn't have the exact > driver for my video card. =20 Try Ctrl+Alt+Keypad-Plus and see if it switches to a higher resolution. > I have an Intel motherboard, and when I > looked it up on Intel's site, they didn't have any FreeBSD drivers for > my motherboard, only RedHat and SuSE. Is there something I can do to > got my resolution to increase? The "driver" is part of the X server, not part of the FreeBSD kernel (if you forget about 3D accelleration).=20 I would generally advise to avoid binary only drivers, because if you upgrade your system and the driver stops working you're screwed. Instead buy from people who give out enough specs to let the Xorg hackers write open source drivers. Study your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and read the manual page: 'man xorg.conf'. If you want more specific advice, post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and the /var/log/Xorg.0.log.=20 Roland --=20 R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt --QTprm0S8XgL7H0Dt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCil0WEnfvsMMhpyURAkwuAJwJrBORBR2bsnDTlQTMGIVdzBKxBQCgj3H1 VGAhk59+ux5ze/bROlBhScA= =BMY2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --QTprm0S8XgL7H0Dt--