Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 11:10:43 +0000 From: Craig Kleski <ckleski@mbc.edu> To: Ben Paley <ben@spooty.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1280x800 display, i810, 915, etc etc etc Message-ID: <200506071110.43618.ckleski@mbc.edu> In-Reply-To: <200506071529.47798.ben@spooty.net> References: <200506071529.47798.ben@spooty.net>
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On Tuesday 07 June 2005 02:29 pm, you wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running 5.4 on my shiny new dell inspiron 6000 - there are a few > things yet to sort out, and one of them is X. Amazing. In winxp it > runs at 1280x800, 16bit (I think, or 24? can't remember off-hand, i'd > be happy with 8 for the moment!). And it seems I need the i810 > Generic driver from xorg. > > At the moment, I'm working with no xorg.conf at all! I get 800x600, > not sure of colour depth. But I really want / need to take advantage > of the full screen resolution. I understand I should set things up to > run 915resolution on boot, to teach the vbios about 1280x800. But > I've yet make or find an xorg.conf that even gives me a display. > > Thanks a lot for any help! > > Thanks, > Ben You may want to check /etc/X11/Xorg.0.log to see if any 1280x800 modes are recognized. If not, you may need to use 855patch: http://www.chzsoft.com.ar/855patch.html I use 855patch on my Dell 700m to get 1280x800. Then you need to add a ModeLine to xorg.conf. ModeLine "1280x800" 71.0 1280 1328 1360 1440 800 802 808 823 and make the appropriate changes in xorg.conf to use this as the default resolution (colordepth 24). Use the i810 driver.
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