Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:56:51 -0700 From: jw <jwdevel@gmail.com> To: "Andrew J. Caines" <A.J.Caines@halplant.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with VESA and 1680x1050 Message-ID: <fa8771800907132256i3852a709k5114a4755d34ca07@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A5AA977.8080200@halplant.com> References: <fa8771800907121753k5cff6c18w53c21568f2f42a48@mail.gmail.com> <4A5AA977.8080200@halplant.com>
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On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Andrew J.
Caines<A.J.Caines@halplant.com> wrote:
> John,
>
>> I have a new box with an onboard GeForce 8200, which is not supported
>> by the 'nv' driver yet.
>
> If you don't mind the closed code and aren't running 64 bit, you can use
> x11/nvidia-driver.
Unfortunately (in this respect :) I am running amd64 - sorry, forgot
to post that
>
> You might be able to get more help if you provide the chip ID.
>
Where do I get the chip ID?
Or do you mean this line from the log?
nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Co-Processor rev 162
>> (II) VESA(0): Not using mode "1680x1050" (no mode of this name) So
>> what gives? It seems like VESA is aware that the mode is supported,
>> yet it drops it later on anyway.
>
> That's not a VESA mode[1].
>
Ah, so the VESA driver just can not ever provide this mode I take
it... oh well ):
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