From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 9 13:29:25 2003 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 69C0B37B401 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 13:29:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4320A43F3F for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 13:29:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (root@tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id h29LTTm28381; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 13:29:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by thought.org (8.12.6/8.11.3) id h29LTI8c001762; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 13:29:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 13:29:17 -0800 From: Gary D Kline To: taxman Cc: "Miroslaw J. Wiechowski" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel i810e graphic Message-ID: <20030309212917.GA16437@tao.thought.org> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030308122015.024b5ec0@mail.bahnhof.se> <200303091343.33701.taxman@acd.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200303091343.33701.taxman@acd.net> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 16 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 01:43:33PM -0500, taxman wrote: > On Saturday 08 March 2003 06:33 am, Miroslaw J. Wiechowski wrote: > > > The system installation program does not give me any > > working configuration. The best I could get was some > > ugly display with standard VGA, configured by XFree86 -configure. > > > > Did anyone succeed with this Intel i810e chip and 1024x768 > > resolution at all? > > Getting hardware detection working well for every single chipset out there is > pretty tough. The i810 is pretty common, but pretty wacky too it seems. > > This'll sound funny, but try knoppix. It has amazing hardware autodetection. > Boot with it then save your Xfree config file (it's in the same place) to > floppy or something. Copy that over to FreeBSD and it'll likely work once > you've followed the other suggestions people have had. You may need to edit > out some of the font dir's that aren't installed on your FreeBSD system, but > that should be about it. > > get knoppix at: > http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html > or google for knoppix mini iso, as there are some of those out there for a > smaller download. > > Anyway that's how i finally got my Xfree config to work perfectly with my > monitor/video card > I assume that "knoppix" fits onto a CDROM.... (without having checked). IIRC (and who knows?) I believe I had my i815 working at 1280x1024 before my 17" tube went south--(bad v. regulator)-- and I had to use a 15" generic CRT at 1024x768. With the expertise that has been share around on this list re the i810, I've got my /etc/XF86Config working at 1024x768. (I'll share it with anyone who wants or post it on my website and give the URL....) I have a 19" tube now, and would like to drive it at a higher resolution. Nothing I seem to know, tho, seems to get me more than 1024x768. (??) gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message