From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 28 8:45:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xfw.transarc.ibm.com (xfw.transarc.ibm.com [192.54.226.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5614F37B419 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 08:45:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost2.transarc.ibm.com (mailhost2.transarc.ibm.com [9.38.192.125]) by xfw.transarc.ibm.com (AIX4.3/UCB 8.7/8.7) with ESMTP id LAA05720 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 11:36:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from smithfield.transarc.ibm.com (smithfield.transarc.ibm.com [9.38.192.92]) by mailhost2.transarc.ibm.com (8.8.0/8.8.0) with SMTP id LAA27941 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 11:45:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 11:45:42 -0500 (EST) From: Pat Barron To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Why can't I get 800x600 resolution on my laptop display on 4.4-R? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Well, I'm finally getting my systems upgraded to 4.4, and one of the machines I'm working with is an IBM ThinkPad 380XD. First, I'd like to say that I'm thankful that the boot loader in 4.4 includes a workaround for an oddity in the ThinkPad BIOS that prevented me from installing 4.3 from CD-ROM - that works fine now. But, I noticed another problem right away. I can't get X to use the entire 800x600 resolution that my display is capable of. Whenever I choose 800x600 resolution in XF86Setup, the server won't start. If I choose 640x480, it does start, but that doesn't give me enough screen real estate to be that useful. The 380XD uses the NeoMagic 128XD chipset. I picked "NeoMagic" as my display adapter in XF86Setup. However, when I start the X server, it reports "Chipset: generic". I could swear that, in FreeBSD 4.3, there was specific chipset support for the NeoMagic 128XD in the server. Am I mistaken about that? Could that be what's causing my problem? Any advice would be welcome. Thanks, --Pat. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message